M. Kent Kent Jennings

M. Kent Jennings is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Professor Emeritus and Research Scientist Emeritus, the University of Michigan.. He was 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 has helped conduct large-scale surveys in the United States and several foreign countries. 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. He has received numerous awards throughout his career, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, grants from the Ford Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes for Mental Health. In 2004, he was listed in the Political Science 400, a compendium of scholars whose work has been cited most frequently by other researchers.