A leading expert on campaigns and elections, voting behavior, political psychology, campaign finance, and experimental research, Dr. Panagopoulos has been a member of the Decision Desk team at NBC News since the 2006 election cycle. He is also the editor of American Political Research, a peer-reviewed journal published by Sage. He is the former director of big data and quantitative initiatives in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Panagopoulos came to Northeastern from Fordham University where he was a professor in the political science department, director and founder of the Center for Electoral Politics and Democracy and the graduate program in elections and campaign management, and adjunct professor of quantitative methods at Columbia University. In 2015-2016, Dr. Panagopoulos was a visiting professor of political science and a permanent fellow at Yale University's Foundation for Social and Political Studies. He was selected by the American Political Science Association as a member of Congress in 2004-2005 and served in the office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY).
Panagopoulos is the author of more than 60 scientific articles that have been published in publications such as: American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Political Behavior, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Psychology, Presidential Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, American Politics Research, PS: Political Science and Politics, Women & Politics, the Journal of Social and Political Psychology, Social Influence, Basic and Applied Social Psychologyand the Journal of Political Marketing. He is also the author of Political Campaigns: Concepts, Contexts, and Implications (Oxford University Press) and his co-author A Citizen's Guide to US Elections: Empowering Democracy in America (Routledge). He is also its editor Rewiring Politics: Presidential Nominating Convention in the Media Age (LSU type), Politicking Online: The Transformation of Election Campaign Communications (Rutgers University Press), and Public financing in American elections (Temple University Press) and co-author (with Joshua Schank) of All Roads Lead to Congress: The $300 Billion Race for Highway Funding (CQ Press).
Panagopoulos has received over $1 million in research grants as well as numerous awards, including the 2014 Robert H. Durr Award for “Best Paper Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Applying Quantitative Methods to a Substantive Problem” , “Best Paper Published in Political Research Quarterly in 2014” and the Miller Award for “Best Paper Published in Political Analysis in 2013”.
Previously, Dr. Panagopoulos was a research fellow at Yale University's Institute for Social and Political Studies, where he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in 2006. He previously founded and directed the graduate program in political campaign management at New York University's Department of Politics. Panagopoulos has also been a visiting fellow at Columbia University's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy and a fellow at American University's Department of Government. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Institute for Politics, the Internet, and Democracy at the Graduate School for Political Management at George Washington University and is a research fellow at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University, both in Washington. DC
Dr. Panagopoulos has provided extensive analysis and commentary for print and broadcast media including: CNN, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Fox News, BBC, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.
Panagopoulos has provided strategic advice to numerous candidates running for federal, state and local office or in international elections. Its former editor-in-chief Campaigns & Elections magazine, Panagopoulos has also served on the board of the American Political Consultants Association.
