John M. Sides

John M. Sides is an American political scientist.

He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996,^[1] and pursued a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley.^[2] Sides then began his teaching career as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin.^[3] He subsequently joined the George Washington University faculty,^[4] then was appointed William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair and Professor at Vanderbilt University.^[2]

Sides cofounded The Monkey Cage, a blog, in 2007.^[5][6]

Selected publications

• Sides, John; Tesler, Michael; Vavreck, Lynn (2018). Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691174198.^[7]
• Sides, John; Vavreck, Lynn (2013). The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691156880.^[8]