He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from The Ohio State University in 2014. Hitt studies judgment and decision making in American politics, primarily in elite institutions. Hitt’s research, supported in part by the National Science Foundation, has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Law & Society Review, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Studies in American Political Development. He is co-author of Time Series Analysis for the Social Sciences, published by Cambridge University Press. Hitt’s doctoral dissertation was awarded the 2015 Edward S. Corwin prize for best dissertation in public law by the American Political Science Association. More information can be found at his website.