Stephanie Muravchik, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer

Department

Government

Biography

Stephanie Muravchik is a senior lecturer of American politics and the Associate Faculty Director of the Open Academy Kravis Lab for Civic Leadership. She is the author of American Protestantism in an Age of Psychology (Cambridge, 2011) and the co-author, with Jon A. Shields, of The Republican Civil War: What Liz Cheney’s Wyoming Tells Us About a Divided American Right (Oxford, 2026) and Trump’s Democrats (Brookings, 2020). She is also an associate fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.

Teaching Interests

US politics, Jewish American politics, American political culture

Education

PhD, Department of History, University of Virginia, 2007 

Research and Publications

The Republican Civil War: What Liz Cheney's Wyoming Tells Us About a Divided American Right, with Jon A. Shields (Oxford UP, 2026)

Trump's Democrats, with Jon A. Shields (Brookings, 2020)

American Protestantism in an Age of Psychology (Cambridge, 2011)

"Closed Classrooms? An Analysis of College Syllabi on Contentious Issues," Working Paper Draft, July 10, 2025, with Jon A. Shields and Yuval Avnur.

Contact:
MW 1:30-2:30pm & by apt