Cayleb Stives
Ph.D. Student • American Politics

Major Field: American Politics

Minor Field: Methodology

Cayleb Stives is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, with a concentration in American Politics. His research interests include political communication, psychology, and behavior, as well as judicial, race, ethnic, and identity, politics. His research primarily focuses on the spread of political information on social media platforms including Meta, TikTok, X, and YouTube. Cayleb graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a Master's degree in Political Science, and a Bachelor's degree in Communication Studies. His work has been published in the Research Handbook of Judicial Politics and is currently in pre-publication in The Encyclopedia of Political Communication.

Research & Teaching Interests: Political Communications, American Politics, Digital Media Advertising, Social Media Influencers, Social-Media and Politics, American Politics, Judicial Politics, State Courts, Text as Data, Visual Images as Data, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods

Publications:  "Follow the Court: Examining Judicial Homestyle through Extrajudicial Communications on State Court Twitter" https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035309320.00030 , "Neuroscience" https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/vga95

Awards: 2024 Colorado Diversity Initiative Fellow

Fall 2024/25 APSA Diversity Fellow