Bernard Tamas Portrait

Bernard Tamas

Associate Professor

  • PhD
    Rutgers University
Dr. Tamas is an expert on elections, electoral bias, and US third parties. His current research on electoral bias in US elections is funded by the MIT Election Data and Science Lab and the American Political Science Association. Dr. Tamas has held a Fulbright scholarship to the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard-MIT Data Center at Harvard University. Prior to joining VSU, he was a Visiting Research Scholar at Columbia University and has previously taught at Illinois State University, Williams College, and Brandeis University. He has also worked as a software developer at Princeton University. His most recent book is The Demise and Rebirth of American Third Parties (2018). Dr. Tamas is a frequent political commentator on current issues and has been interviewed by NPR (US),ABC News (US), CBC News (Canada),RFI (France), and political blogs including You Don’t Have To Yell, and None of the Above. His research has also been published by several media outlets including Voice of America,The Washington Post, The Conversation, FiveThirtyEight, The Denver Post, Politico, Associated Press, and Governing. Dr. Tamas is a member of the Scholars Strategy Network. 

Areas of Concentration

  • American Government 
  • Elections and Political Parties 
  • US Third Parties 
  • Electoral Systems and Electoral Bias
  • Research Methodology 

Selected Publications