Quoted / Interviewed in these Selected Media Items
Protests surrounded the RNC, though in lower numbers than expected, NPR Weekend Edition (July 20, 2024)
Scottish identity is in. Scotland’s nationalist party is (likely) out. Why the disparity?, Christian Science Monitor (July 1, 2024)
Colleges Are Closing, but Summer Doesn’t Mean the End of Protests, Governing (May 21, 2024)
Dangerous Words: After Rishi Sunak’s extremism speech, should we be worried? Holyrood (March 9, 2024)
When the ‘Silent Majority’ Isn’t White, New York Times (August 30, 2021)
The one place in Washington, D.C., where bipartisanship is flourishing, Marketplace (December 8, 2020)
Biden and Trump Are Fighting Each Other in a Changed World, New York Times (June 17, 2020)
One Big Difference About George Floyd Protests: Many White Faces, New York Times (June 12, 2020)
Academic Response to Black Lives Matters, Unchained Media Scotland (June 18, 2020)
How Protests Change Parties and Elections, The Science of Politics — Niskanen Center (June 3, 2020)
Academic Response to Indy Marches, Unchained Media Scotland (May 27, 2020)
Academic Response to Anti Lockdown Protests, Unchained Media Scotland (May 23, 2020)
Interview with Michael Heaney about Scottish independence survey, The IndyPram Podcast (December 2, 2019)
More women back Yes movement because of Nicola Sturgeon, academic finds, The National (November 26, 2019)
School for Struggle, The Indypendent (May 9, 2017)
Rain doesn’t stop researchers from doing science at the march, Science Magazine (April 25, 2017)
Democracy Is in the Streets, by Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed (April 5, 2017).
Maintaining the momentum of Woman’s Marches, Global National News (Janueary 22, 2017)
Were the Protests at the DNC and RNC a Sign of Democracy Returning to Conventions?, interview by M.L. Schultze, WOSU Radio (July 28, 2016)
Penn State McCourtney Institute for Democracy, interview by Chris Beem (March 14, 2016).
Michael Heaney on What Partisanship Does to a Peace Movement, interview by David Swanson, Talk Nation Radio (March 17, 2015).
What happened to the antiwar movement?, by Andrew Gelman, The Washington Post (Monkey Cage, February 5, 2015).
In Ann Arbor, Obama Gathers Support For Minimum Wage Hike, by Tamara Keith, NPR Morning Edition (April 3, 2014).
Medea Benjamin’s Anti-War Activism: Wearing Pink, Seeing Red, by Tamara Keith, NPR Weekend Edition Saturday (September 14, 2013).
How Obama demobilized the antiwar movement, by Brad Plumer, The Washington Post (Wonkblog, August 29, 2013).
Causes: In the streets and in the Democratic convention, by Lester Graham, Michigan Radio (September 3, 2012).
Is the Occupy Wall Street message becoming lost online?, BBC News Magazine (October 18, 2011).
Interviewed by Doug Henwood, Behind the News, KPFA 94.1 FM (April 16, 2011).
Whatever Happened To The Anti-War Movement?, by Linton Weeks, National Public Radio (April 15, 2011).
The Scott Horton Show (April 15, 2011).
Have War Protesters Been Betrayed by Obama?, by Lee Dye, ABC News (April 13, 2011).
Antiwar No More?, by Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed (April 6, 2011).
1968 Chicago Riot Left Mark On Political Protests, by Ina Jaffe, National Public Radio, Weekend Edition Saturday (August 23, 2008).
Mess o’ Mobilizations, by Scott McLeMee, Inside Higher Ed (September 19, 2007).
Dancing into the Majority, by Adam Doster, In These Times (June 2007).
Party in the Streets, by Scott McLeMee, Inside Higher Ed (March 21, 2007).
In-house Videos
Introduction to Undergraduate Dissertation Series, University of Glasgow, Politics & International Relations (November 24, 2021).
Democracy 101: Presidential Debates, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (October 11, 2012).
What to Look for at the 2012 Republican National Convention, University of Michigan News Service (April 27, 2012).