David Smith

BA, University of Sydney
PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Research Interests

• Religion and politics
• American and comparative political development
• Collective violence
• Theories of the state

Publications

With Andrei S. Markovits, “Sports Culture Among Undergraduates: A Study of Student-Athletes and Students at the University of Michigan”, in David Karen and Robert Washington, eds., 2009. The Sport and Society Reader, London: Routledge. Originally in The Michigan Political Science Review, 2008.

Working Papers

“Mitt Romney and Anti-Mormonism.”

“Voting to repress: the 47th Congress and the Mormons.”

“The first Muslim president? Causes and consequences of the belief that Barack Obama is a Muslim.”

Conference Papers

“The first Muslim president? Causes and consequences of the belief that Barack Obama is a Muslim.” Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Il, April 2010.

“The state confronts religious charisma: the case of nineteenth-century American Mormonism.” Nation and Charisma Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, London School of Economics, April 2010.

“Voting to repress: the 47th Congress and the Mormons.” Annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Louisville, KY, October 2008.

“Coercion and in-group policing of minorities: the case of the Mormon abandonment of polygamy.” Annual meeting of the International Society for New Institutional Economics, Toronto, ON, June 2008.

“Repression of unpopular religious minorities in democratic states.” Annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, March 2008. Institutional Economics, Toronto, ON, June 2008.

“Coercion, compliance, and religious repression.” Annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics and Culture, Tampa, FL, November 2007.

“Elections as instruments of autocracy.” Annual meScience Association, Chicago, IL, March 2005.