Rate My Professor Adam Berinsky

Berinsky is the author of influential books including Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It (Princeton University Press, 2023), which won the Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center in 2025; In Time of War: Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq (University of Chicago Press, 2009); and Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America (Princeton University Press, 2004). He has published extensively in journals such as Political Analysis, Political Behavior, and PS: Political Science and Politics, with notable articles like "The Science of Fake News?" (2018), "Evaluating Online Labor Markets for Experimental Research: Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk" (Political Analysis, 2012), and "Rumors and Health Care Reform: Experiments in Political Misinformation" (2017). Berinsky has received multiple National Science Foundation grants, a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship for his project "Fostering an Accurate Information Ecosystem to Mitigate Polarization in the United States," and the 2024 Miller Prize for a co-authored paper. He co-edits the Chicago Studies in American Politics book series at University of Chicago Press and has briefed officials from the U.S. State Department, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, and governments of Finland and Sweden on misinformation strategies. Berinsky has delivered public lectures to academic, professional, and public audiences, including tech companies and MIT alumni groups.