Pamela Conover

Pamela Johnston Conover is an American political scientist. In 2007 she was named the Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She studies political behavior and political psychology, with particular focuses on women and politics as well as political media studies.

Education and early career Conover graduated from Emory University with a BA degree in 1973. She then received her PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1979, with a major in political science and a minor in psychology. Her dissertation was titled The Nature and Sources of Candidate Images: A Social Psychological Approach. the British Journal of Political Science, and The Journal of Politics, Conover has coauthored two books. Together with Virginia Gray, Conover wrote the 2003 book Feminism and the New Right: Conflict Over the American Family. The book investigated how the American New Right formed in opposition to the American feminist movement. ScienceDaily summarised the study as finding that "Most partisans -- average Democratic and Republican voters -- act like fans in sports rivalries instead of making political choices based on issues".

In 2007, Conover was made a Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is one of six Burton Craige Distinguished Professors in Jurisprudence there. Conover's work has also received several awards from the American Political Science Association. She was the 2003 winner of the Gregory M. Luebbert Best Article Award, which "is given for the best article in the field of comparative politics published in the previous two years", for her 2001 article "The Deliberative Potential of Political Discussion" in the British Journal of Political Science. In 2004, she received the Robert Bailey Award for the best paper on LGBT politics at the 2003 American Political Science Association annual conference.

Selected works "The Origins and Meaning of Liberal/Conservative Self-Identifications", American Journal of Political Science, with Stanley Feldman (1981) Feminism and the New Right: Conflict Over the American Family, with Virginia Gray (2003) "Red and Blue States of Mind: Partisan Hostility and Voting in the United States", Political Research Quarterly, with Patrick Miller (2015)

Selected awards Gregory M. Luebbert Best Article Award, American Political Science Association (2003) Robert Bailey Award, American Political Science Association (2004)