{"id":2,"date":"2018-04-09T20:31:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T20:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:30:18","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis N. Ridout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"396\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.wp.wsu.edu\/uploads\/sites\/2022\/2018\/04\/ridout1-396x474.jpg\" alt=\"image of Travis Ridout\" class=\"wp-image-6\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/2022\/2018\/04\/ridout1-396x474.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/2022\/2018\/04\/ridout1.jpg 563w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am Claudius O. and Mary W. Johnson Distinguished Professor and Director of the School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at Washington State University where I teach courses in American Politics, Elections, Media and Politics, Political Behavior, Research Methods and Statistics. In addition, I am co-director of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/mediaproject.wesleyan.edu\/\">Wesleyan Media Project<\/a>, which has tracked all political ads aired in the United States since 2010. In early 2023, I was a Fulbright Scholar at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.&nbsp; I am an elected member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences and am a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Electoral Integrity Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My broad areas of research interest include political communication, campaigns and elections, campaign finance and political participation, and presidential nominations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/2022\/2025\/10\/vita-Ridout-Word-29oct25.pdf\">Vita<\/a>&nbsp;(updated October 2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=X2Sg8SIAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Claudius O. and Mary W. Johnson Distinguished Professor and Director of the School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at Washington State University where I teach courses in American Politics, Elections, Media and Politics, Political Behavior, Research Methods and Statistics. In addition, I am co-director of the&nbsp;Wesleyan Media Project, which has tracked all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8347,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=2"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}