Dr. Dowling received his Ph.D. from Binghamton University (SUNY) in 2008. Following four years as a postdoctoral research associate at Yale University, he joined the Department of Political Science at the University of Mississippi in Fall 2012. His research and teaching interests are in American Politics, where he studies both mass and elite political behavior with a substantive focus on issues of electoral competition, representation, and public policy, campaign finance law in particular.