Dr. LJ Zigerell Jr

Associate Professor/Assessment Director

Politics and Government

Office

Schroeder Hall - SCH 404

Office Phone

(309) 438-7852office
phone

lzigere@ilstu.eduemail

Website

ljzigerell.comwebsite

About
Education
Research

Biography

L.J Zigerell is an Associate Professor of Politics and Government at Illinois State University. L.J's current research activities involve the study of race and sex discrimination and beliefs about inequalities.

Current Courses

309.001Data Analysis and Data Visualization in Political Science

497.001Introduction To Research Methodology

296.001Political Science Professional Development

296.002Political Science Professional Development

138.005Quantitative Reasoning In Political Science

291.003Undergraduate Teaching Experience In Political Science

499.001Independent Research For The Master's Thesis

287.002Independent Study

400.002Independent Study

296.001Political Science Professional Development

296.002Political Science Professional Development

138.004Quantitative Reasoning In Political Science

334.001The Politics Of Race, Ethnicity, And Inequality

Teaching Interests & Areas

Judicial politics. Constitutional law. Legal thinking. Research methods

Research Interests & Areas

Race and sex bias. Researcher bias

Ph D Political Science

University of Pittsburgh

Other Teaching and Curriculum

Penn State Harrisburg

BS Engineering

Geneva College

Book, Chapter

L.J Zigerell. 2015. Maintaining the Technological Neutrality of the Fourth Amendment. In N. Lind and E. Rankin, Privacy in the Digital Age: 21st-Century Challenges to the Fourth Amendment.

L.J Zigerell and Heather Marie Rice. 2011. "Intense Ambivalence: Report on the 2006 and 2008 ANES Abortion Attitudes Measures." In J. Aldrich and K. M. McGraw (eds.), Improving Public Opinion Surveys: Interdisciplinary Innovation and the American National Election Studies. Princeton University Press.

Journal Article

Zigerell, L. US Public Perceptions of an Intelligence Quotient Test Score Gap between Black Americans and White Americans. Political Studies Review Online first (2020)

Zigerell, L. Critical comment on “Revisiting the Asian second-generation advantage”. Ethnic and Racial Studies 42.13 (2019): 2270-2271.

Zigerell, L. Left Unchecked: Political Hegemony in Political Science and the Flaws It Can Cause. PS: Political Science & Politics 54.2 (2019): 720-723.

Zigerell, L. Understanding public support for eugenic policies: Results from survey data. The Social Science Journal (2019)

L.J Zigerell. 2018. "Black and White Discrimination in the United States: Evidence from an Archive of Survey Experiment Studies". Research & Politics 5(1) DOI: 10.1177/2053168017753862