James Gimpel

About

James Gimpel is a professor in the Department of Government at the University of Maryland, College Park. His areas of interest include political geography, voting and opinion, political campaigns, and the politics of immigration policy. He has written recent articles on the mobilization of volunteers and donors in political campaigns, as well as on the redistribution of the electorate through population mobility. His ongoing research involves the study of campaign contributions and new uses of geographic analysis tools (software) to study politics and policy.

He consults regularly with political campaigns, interest groups, and 527 organizations on political mobilization and the evaluation of campaign tactics.

He served as editor of American Politics Research, a peer-reviewed political science journal, for eight years and worked on Capitol Hill in the US Senate for two years. Gimpel holds a PhD in political science from the University of Chicago.