{"id":128,"date":"2022-08-02T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/?p=128"},"modified":"2022-09-22T16:34:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:34:43","slug":"michael-shepherd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/2022\/08\/02\/michael-shepherd\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanderbilt Ph.D. now teaching at the University of Texas at Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-129 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2022\/09\/22135804\/MichaelShepherd-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"155\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Shepherd (Ph.D. &#8217;20), is now an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Austin. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaeleshepherd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">His research<\/a> focuses on questions of political and economic inequality, with a special focus on the experiences of the poor with government and the representation of the interests of the poor in policymaking. His dissertation combined these interests into a study of rural individuals\u2019 attitudes and experiences in the realm of health care. His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, the Election Law Journal, Political Science Research &amp; Methods, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Shepherd (Ph.D. &#8217;20), is now an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on questions of political and economic inequality, with a special focus on the experiences of the poor with government and the representation of the interests of the poor in policymaking. His dissertation combined&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,8],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2022\/08\/22135739\/MichaelShepherd1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}