About - Wesleyan Survey Lab

About SurveyLab

SurveyLab at Wesleyan aims to engage students in the design, collection and analysis of public opinion data through surveys and survey experiments to answer a host of important questions critical to democracy, public policy, and citizen attitudes, perceptions and behaviors. While students in the Lab course engage with faculty on designing and analyzing the questions, survey data from the lab is also used as a resource in both student and faculty research outside of the Lab and in other classes across campus.

SurveyLab
Team Leads

Erika Franklin Fowler

Professor of Government

Erika Franklin Fowler directs the Wesleyan Media Project, which tracks and analyzes political advertising in real-time during elections. She specializes in large-scale analyses of political communication—campaign advertising and local media, in particular—and her work has been cited in hundreds of leading news outlets. Fowler also conducts research on the politics of health policy including the uproar over school mandates regarding the HPV vaccine, recommendations surrounding mammography screening, the ongoing debates over the Affordable Care Act and now COVID-19. She also serves on the ABC News Election Night Decision Desk and has professional experience conducting focus groups and survey research.

Logan Dancey

Associate Professor of Government

Logan Dancey's research and teaching interests include the U.S. Congress, campaigns and elections, and public opinion. His research agenda focuses on how legislators seek to represent their constituents in more polarized times and the ways in which the public responds to partisanship inside Congress. His research has appeared in such journals as the American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, Political Research Quarterly, and Political Behavior.

Professor Dancey holds a BA from the University of Puget Sound and a PhD from the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining the faculty at Wesleyan, he was a postdoctoral associate at the University of Pittsburgh.

Steven T. Moore

Assistant Professor of Government

Steven T. Moore's work focuses on a broad spectrum of attitudes around race and politics in American politics, and particularly how these attitudes shape public opinion, how they are reflected in news media, and how they shape meaningful political behavior.

Steven completed a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Michigan in 2020. He recieved a BA in Political Science from the University of South Carolina.

Donny Snyder

Postdoctoral Researcher

Donny Snyder is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Social Science at the Wesleyan Media Project. His research bridges political psychology and communication, analyzing how individuals may mentally represent politics more concretely or abstractly as a result of individual differences or their information environment - which could have implications for affective polarization.

Breeze Floyd

WMP Program Manager

Breeze Floyd joined the Wesleyan Media Project in April 2022. She helps manage the day-to-day operations of the Wesleyan Media Project. Her research interests include local government, campaigns and elections, and public opinion. She enjoys web design, data visualization, and setting birds free.

Breeze holds a BA from Wesleyan University.