Director
David Wiltse
Associate Professor of Political Science
School of American and Global Studies
The South Dakota Polling Project
Research Associates
Filip Viskupic
Assistant Professor of Political Science
School of American and Global Studies
The South Dakota Polling Project
Evren Celik Wiltse
Professor of Political Science
School of American and Global Studies
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Lisa Hager
Associate Professor of Political Science
School of American and Global Studies
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Our research team has the breadth and depth of training and experience necessary for an effective research unit.
Dr. Filip Viskupic was trained in quantitative and experimental methods, as well as political psychology at the University of Georgia. He has conducted survey experiments to investigate citizens’ foreign policy attitudes.
Dr. Evren Celik Wiltse is highly trained in both quantitative and qualitative methods, has extensive field experience conducting the World Values Survey on a national basis in Turkey, and has conducted numerous trips gathering data and interviewing in Mexico.
Dr. Lisa Hager is a former congressional staffer and trained extensively in quantitative methods at Kent State University.
Dr. David Wiltse has training in research methods from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Intercollegiate Consortium of Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan. Prior to The South Dakota Polling Project, he served as Co-PI for the Candidate Emergence and Public Financing of Elections Dataset a multi-wave panel survey of potential legislative candidates in three New England states.
Affiliated Faculty
Brittney Meyer
Professor / Interprofessional Education Coordinator
College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions
Department of Pharmacy Practice
Dr. Brittney Meyer is an associate professor of pharmacy practice. She holds a Pharm.D. from South Dakota State University, completed a pharmacy practice residency at the Siouxland Medical Education Foundation in Sioux City, Iowa, and obtained her teaching certificate from the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning, including interprofessional education.
Dr. Dale Potts graduated with a doctoral degree in history from the University of Maine at Orono. He is an Associate Professor of History at South Dakota State University where he teaches courses in world history, U.S. environmental history, U.S. cultural history, and American Indian History. He has published in journals such as American Indian Literatures and recently contributed a chapter in 2022 to the anthology Heartland River: A Cultural and Environmental History of the Big Sioux River Valley, through the Center for Western Studies at Augustana University.
