SIESR Leadership
Jon A. Krosnick
Co-Chair of the SIESR Faculty Committee, Co-Director of The Public Pulse
Jon Krosnick is a social psychologist who does research on attitude formation, change, and effects, on the psychology of political behavior, and on survey research methods. He is the Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor of Communication, Political Science, and (by courtesy) Psychology. At Stanford, in addition to his professorships, he directs the Political Psychology Research Group and has directed the Summer Institute in Political Psychology.
Winner of the American Association for Public Opinion Research’s Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding research, and the Nevitt Sanford Award from the International Society of Political Psychology, Dr. Krosnick’s scholarship has been recognized by election as a fellow by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Erik Erikson Award for Excellence and Creativity in the Field of Political Psychology from the International Society of Political Psychology, two fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Phillip Brickman Memorial Prize for Research in Social Psychology, and the American Political Science Association’s Best Paper Award.
Michael Tomz
Co-Chair of the SIESR Faculty Committee
Michael Tomz is the William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development, the Landreth Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, and the Director of the Center for American Democracy at IRiSS.
Tomz has published in the fields of international relations, American politics, comparative politics, and statistical methods. He is the author of Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt across Three Centuries and numerous articles in political science and economics journals.
Tomz received the International Studies Association’s Karl Deutsch Award, given to a scholar who, within 10 years of earning a Ph.D., has made the most significant contribution to the study of international relations. He has also won the Giovanni Sartori Award for the best book developing or applying qualitative methods; the Jack L. Walker Award for the best article on Political Organizations and Parties; the best paper award from the APSA section on Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior; the best paper award from the APSA section on Experimental Research; and the Okidata Best Research Software Award. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation.
Tomz has received numerous teaching awards, including the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Cox Medal for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research. In 2017 he received Stanford’s highest teaching honor, the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching. He founded and continues to direct the Summer Research College program for undergraduates in political science.
Tomz holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University; a master’s degree from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University. He has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, the Hoover Institution, the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, and the International Monetary Fund.
Frank Newport
Co-Director of The Public Pulse
Frank Newport is a Gallup Senior Scientist, and former Gallup Poll Editor in Chief (1990-2018).
Newport has been directly involved in the use of survey research to study human social behavior for over four decades. He has directed and analyzed thousands of public opinion surveys, marketing studies, and other measures of the public’s attitudes. His research has focused on political behavior, religious attitudes and behavior, inequality, and general opinion about the state of the nation.
Newport has been a major national figure analyzing and reporting on public opinion, including years of recurring reports on CNN and CNN International, podcasts and videos, and analytic studies published in leading journals and on gallup.com. He is the author or co-author of a number of books, including Polling Matters and most recently How Society Should Deal with Inequality (2026).
Newport was elected president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, the nation’s largest professional organization for pollsters and survey researchers and was vice chairman of the Board of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Michigan, and an undergraduate degree from Baylor University, from which he received the Distinguished Alumni award. Newport lives with his wife near Princeton, New Jersey.
Tiffany S. Neman
Associate Research Director
Tiffany S. Neman is Associate Research Director of the Stanford Institute for Excellence in Survey Research (SIESR) and serves as the institute’s survey consultant. She previously worked as a survey statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau’s Center for Behavioral Science Methods and currently serves on the Executive Council of the Pacific chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (PAPOR). Her work has appeared in journals including Public Opinion Quarterly, Survey Practice, and Field Methods. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology, with an emphasis in survey methods, from the University of Wisconsin and an undergraduate degree from UCLA.
Resty Fufunan
Predoctoral Researcher
Resty Fufunan is an IRiSS Predoctoral Researcher in the Department of Sociology and at the Stanford Institute for Excellence in Survey Research (SIESR). He graduated from Yale University in 2024 with majors in Ethnicity, Race & Migration and Statistics & Data Science. His research uses survey data to analyze political attitudes, with a focus on Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities.
Brooke Erickson
Predoctoral Researcher
Brooke Erickson is an IRiSS Predoctoral Researcher at the Stanford Institute for Excellence in Survey Research (SIESR). She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Health, Medicine, and Society and Psychology, with a minor in Global Health, from Lehigh University, and a Master of Public Health in Global Health from the University of Washington. Her research interests center on global mental health and maternal health promotion, with a particular focus on strengthening health systems and delivering culturally responsive care in low-resource settings. Driven by an interest in using data to guide decision-making and translate research into real-world change, Brooke is currently working on the Ball of Knowledge project, which consolidates findings from survey research into an evidence-based resource that serves as a guide for practitioners to collect quality, actionable data.