Professor Emeritus
About
M. Kent Jennings is Professor Emeritus and Research Scientist Emeritus at the University of Michigan, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was initially a member of the Political Science Department and the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan from 1963-81 and was earlier affiliated with the Brookings Institution. From 1984 to 1996, he held joint faculty appointments at U.C. Santa Barbara and the University of Michigan. Jennings specializes in the areas of political socialization, public opinion and political participation, gender and politics, and research design and data collection. He was involved in large-scale survey projects in the United States and several other countries and is best known for his long-term political socialization inquiry in the United States. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a former Guggenheim Fellow, and a former Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Jennings served as President of the International Society of Political Psychology in 1989-90 and as President of the American Political Science Association in 1997-98.
