2026 George E. Marcus: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	55	156	134	95	78	197	37192

Overview

George E. Marcus is affiliated with Williams College in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within Arts and Humanities and Psychology, with specific interests in Social Psychology, Museology, Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Sociology and Political Science, and Archeology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

Museums and Cultural Heritage
Visual Culture and Art Theory
Emotions and Moral Behavior
Cultural Differences and Values
Social and Intergroup Psychology
Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
Cultural Industries and Urban Development

The following recent papers reflect the scope of Marcus's research:

"Evaluating the status of theories of emotion in political science and psychology" (2023), published in Frontiers in Political Science
"Ethnography and exhibition design: Insights from the Moesgaard inaugural" (2021), published in Design Studies
"Hidden Affections: Presumptions that Continue to Misshape The Measurement of Emotion" (2022), published in Advances in Politics and Economics
"Refiguring Art and Anthropology, For Whom? A conversation with George E. Marcus and Fred R. Myers" (2022), published in Journal of Material Culture
"How Do Humans Create and Sustain Viable Communities? A Review Essay" (2023), published in Political Science Quarterly

Frequent collaborators in Marcus's research include Douglas R. Holmes, Dominic Boyer, Ton Otto, Jennifer Deger, and Karin Zitzewitz.

Marcus has contributed to academic publishing beyond articles, with a book titled Ethnography through Thick and Thin published in 2021 by Princeton University Press.

They publish regularly in a range of journals including Frontiers in Political Science, Design Studies, Advances in Politics and Economics, Journal of Material Culture, and Political Science Quarterly.

Best Publications

Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography

George E. Marcus

8285
Citations
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography

James Clifford;George E. Marcus

7099
Citations
Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences

George E. Marcus;Michael M. J. Fischer

3232
Citations
Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment

George E. Marcus;W. Russell Neuman;Michael MacKuen

2689
Citations
Ethnography through thick and thin

George E. Marcus

1820
Citations
Political Tolerance and American Democracy

John Lawrence Sullivan;James Piereson;George E. Marcus

1464
Citations
ANXIETY, ENTHUSIASM, AND THE VOTE: THE EMOTIONAL UNDERPINNINGS OF LEARNING AND INVOLVEMENT DURING PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS

George E. Marcus;Michael B. MacKuen

1102
Citations
Emotions in Politics

G. E. Marcus

674
Citations
Civic Engagements: Resolute Partisanship or Reflective Deliberation

Michael MacKuen;Jennifer Wolak;Luke Keele;George E. Marcus

579
Citations
An Alternative Conceptualization of Political Tolerance: Illusory Increases 1950s–1970s

John L. Sullivan;James Piereson;George E. Marcus

519
Citations
The Sentimental Citizen: Emotion in Democratic Politics

George E. Marcus

468
Citations
The affect effect : dynamics of emotion in political thinking and behavior

George E. Marcus;W. Russell Neuman;Michael MacKuen;Ann N. Crigler

429
Citations
Ideological Constraint in the Mass Public: A Methodological Critique and Some New Findings

John L. Sullivan;James E. Piereson;George E. Marcus

376
Citations
The Structure of Emotional Response: 1984 Presidential Candidates

George E. Marcus

365
Citations
With Malice toward Some

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361
Citations
The Sources of Political Tolerance: A Multivariate Analysis

John L. Sullivan;George E. Marcus;Stanley Feldman;James E. Piereson

307
Citations
Emotion and political psychology.

Ted Brader;George E. Marcus

276
Citations
Writing culture : the poetics and politics of ethnography : a School of American Research advanced seminar

James Clifford;George E. Marcus

250
Citations
Fear, Anger, and Voting for the Far Right: Evidence From the November 13, 2015 Paris Terror Attacks

Pavlos Vasilopoulos;George E. Marcus;Nicholas A. Valentino;Martial Foucault

224
Citations
The Uses of Complicity in the Changing Mise-en-Scène of Anthropological Fieldwork

George E. Marcus

221
Citations
The Measure and Mismeasure of Emotion

George E. Marcus;Michael MacKuen;Jennifer Wolak;Luke Keele

215
Citations
Paranoia within reason : a casebook on conspiracy as explanation

George E. Marcus

176
Citations
The Theater of Fact and Its Critics@@@Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography

Roy Wagner;James Clifford;George E. Marcus

6
Citations
With Malice Toward Some: Democratic Values as Standing Decisions and Contemporary Information

George E. Marcus;John L. Sullivan;Elizabeth Theiss-Morse;Sandra L. Wood

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael B. Mackuen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Paul Rabinow University of California, Berkeley

John L. Sullivan University of Minnesota

Martial Foucault Sciences Po

Nicholas A. Valentino University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Stanley Feldman Stony Brook University

Leonie Huddy Stony Brook University

Luke Keele University of Pennsylvania

Jennifer Wolak Michigan State University

Donald N. McCloskey University of Illinois at Chicago

External Links

Personal website of George E. Marcus

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