Samuel J. Abrams is a political scientist with interests in political behavior, socio-political culture and research methods. He is a Research Fellow with the Hoover Institution, Professor of Politics and Social Sciences at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, and a faculty fellow with NYU's Center for Advanced Social Science Research.

Prof Abrams received his AB from Stanford University and his AM and PhD from Harvard University and is an alumnus of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government Program on Inequality and Social Policy.

He has published numerous articles and books on public opinion, Congress, religion and society, and polarization.

He is currently completing two book projects with the first being a large scale study of partisanship and society. The second is an examination of polarization and the division or lack thereof in American society. His current research interests involve the understanding the current “red/blue divide” in the United States, mapping Jewish community political and electoral behavior, and is working on a number of projects exploring ideology and partisanship.

Sam was recently named as one of the United States’ “40 under 40” professors and lives in New York City and Jamesport, NY.