Sean M Theriault


Sean M Theriault
University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts

Phone: +1 512 232 7279
Email: seant@mail.utexas.edu

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Professor Theriault is currently researching the effect of interpersonal relationships within the U.S. Congress. He has published six books: Disruption: The Senate During the Trump Era (Oxford University Press, 2024), Congress: The First Branch (with Mickey Edwards; Oxford University Press, 2020), The Great Broadening (with Bryan Jones and Michelle Whyman; University of Chicago Press, 2019), The Gingrich Senators (Oxford University Press, 2013), Party Polarization in Congress (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and The Power of the People (Ohio State University Press, 2005). He has also published numerous articles in a variety of journals on subjects ranging from presidential rhetoric to congressional careers and the Louisiana Purchase to the Pendleton Act of 1883.

Theriault’s expertise includes political party polarization in the United States, the U.S. Congress, congressional elections, and the Politics of the Catholic Church. He has received numerous teaching awards, including the Friar Society Teaching Fellowship (the biggest undergraduate teaching award at UT) in 2009, UT Professor the Year in 2011, and the Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award in 2014. In 2012, he was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Media Rep Contact

Daniel Oppenheimer (primary)
512-475-9712
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Lauren Macknight (primary)
512-232-6504
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