Riley Rice

Position title: Ph.D. Student: American Politics

Email: riley.rice@wisc.edu

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Research Interests 

Class identity, political behavior, rural politics, and American political economy

Biography

Riley Rice is PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in American Politics. His research interests lie at the intersection of political identity, class politics, and electoral behavior, with a particular focus on how Americans define and contest the boundaries of the working class.

Prior to joining UW-Madison, Riley graduated summa cum laude from Colgate University with a BA in Political Science and Environmental Studies and worked at the Library of Congress.