UC professor awarded Carnegie fellowship
David Niven to study voting and political polarization
Cincinnati’s NPR station, WVXU, highlighted the University of Cincinnati’s very first Carnegie Award recipient in an interview this week.
Associate professor David Niven, PhD, is a member of the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program. He is one of 26 scholars and researchers selected in an application pool of over 300. With a $200,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation, his research will analyze how American citizens’ experience at the polls impacts their views on voting.
WVXU’s Becca Costello interviewed Niven about the fellowship and how he plans to tackle the Carnegie Foundation’s focus on researching political polarization. Over the next two years, Niven will use extensive survey work to systematically characterize the voting experience both locally and nationwide.
"The other half of it is really looking at, how does that voting experience affect our opinions of voting?" Niven told WVXU. "Our thoughts about whether voting is free and fair in this nation or not; our thoughts about what changes should be made to the way we vote."
Read more about Niven’s research grant.
Featured image at top of David Niven. Photo/Andrew Higley/UC Marketing + Brand
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