Office: 101 Monnet Hall
Email: crespin@ou.edu
Website: Carl Albert Congressional Research & Studies Center
Research Fields: American Policy, Congressional Elections, Political Geography
Twitter: @MikeCrespin
Michael Crespin, Ph.D.
Director of the Carl Albert Congressional Research & Studies Center
B.A., University of Rochester
M.A., University of Georgia
M.A., Ph.D., Michigan State University
Michael H. Crespin is Director of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center and Professor of Political Science at The University of Oklahoma. He earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 2005 and served in the office of U.S. Representative Dan Lipinski as an APSA Congressional Fellow from 2005-06.
Mike assists in leading the Center's graduate program and undergraduate research fellows. He also guides students as they take part in the Capitol Scholars program with internships at the Capitol and weekly seminars on campus. Mike also teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on the U.S. Congress and American Federal Government.
Crespin’s research focuses on legislative politics, congressional elections, and political geography. His work on redistricting shows that when independent commissions draw legislative districts, they are more compact and divide fewer communities of interest. Other research finds races are more competitive when the power to draw congressional districts is removed from state legislatures. He also maintains the PIPC Roll Call Dataset.
Some of his work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Analysis, and State Politics and Policy Quarterly. Professor Crespin was a Risser Innovative Teaching Fellow and was awarded a SSRC Negotiating Agreement in Congress Research Grant.
