[1] She then continued to study at the University of Minnesota, earning a PhD in political science in 1989.
[1] In addition to publishing several dozen journal articles and chapters in edited volumes, Theiss-Morse has been an author or an editor of 9 books.
Her 1995 book Congress as Public Enemy: Public Attitudes toward American Political Institutions, coauthored with John Hibbing, was given the Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize from the American Political Science Association, which is "awarded to the best book in legislative studies published in the previous year".
[1] On July 1, 2019, Theiss-Morse was named the Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Theiss-Morse's work has been extensively cited in media outlets including The Washington Post,[10] The New York Times,[11] The Atlantic,[12] The BBC,[13] and the Lincoln Journal Star.