Michael T. Heaney is a Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He is a political scientist who studies how social networks, social movements, interest groups, and political parties shape organizational processes and policy outcomes. With Fabio Rojas, he is author of Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11 (Cambridge University Press, 2015). With Melody Shemtov and Marco Roldán, he is creator, producer, and writer of a documentary film, The Activists: War, Peace, and Politics in the Streets (Bullfrog Films, 2017). His articles appear in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Sociology, the Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Social Networks, Science Advances, American Politics Research, and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. He has received research grants from sources such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institute for Civic Discourse, and the Russell Sage Foundation.
Michael received a Ph.D. in Political Science and Public Policy from the University of Chicago. He has been a faculty member at the University of Michigan and the University of Florida, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, and a Congressional Fellow for the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
“My time as a postdoctoral fellow at CSAP helped to smooth my transition from graduate student to faculty member. In addition to giving me time to work on publishing research from my doctoral dissertation, it enabled me to start two new projects. I began a major new project on the antiwar movement after 9/11, which culminated in a series of articles and a book manuscript. The fellowship provided me with the time to travel to antiwar demonstrations to conduct fieldwork, which would have been impossible had I been in the first year of a faculty position. Faculty affiliated with CSAP gave me valuable feedback on this project in its initial stages. Moreover, I began a smaller project on the Chicago School of Political Science, which culminated in two journal articles. Finally, the fellowship introduced me to a wide range of amazing scholars at Yale — undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty — many of whom remain an important part of my professional network.”