[2] She then attended graduate school in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, where she earned an MA in 1995 and a PhD in 2000.
[2] In addition to the Department of Political Science, she has also been affiliated with the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life since 2015, and has been a faculty fellow there.
[2] In 2005, Schildkraut published the book Press "One" for English: Language Policy, Public Opinion, and American Identity.
[3] Schildkraut examines how four major themes in American identity — liberalism, ethnoculturalism, civic republicanism, and the continual incorporation of immigrant groups — affect respondents' views on three potential policies: making English the official language of the United States, mandating that election ballots can only be printed in English, and ceasing to offer bilingual education in American schools.
[5] Schildkraut shows that invoking different themes of American identity can affect respondents' attitudes towards the various language policies; for example, endorsing ethnoculturalism can increase respondents' support for making English the American national language, whereas rejecting ethnoculturalism can decrease it.
[8] The book is partly motivated by popular assertions that recent immigrants to the United States have tended to not adopt a fully American identity.