William Bianco is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, where he also directs the Indiana Political Analytics Workshop and is affiliated faculty at the Ostrom Workshop. He received his PhD from the University of Rochester, has held tenured positions at Indiana, Pennsylvania State University, and Duke University, and visiting positions at Harvard University, Stanford University, and The Brookings Institution. He is the author of Trust: Representatives and Constituents and numerous articles and has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Council for Eurasian and Eastern European Studies, and the Russell Sage Foundation. He is also the coauthor of American Politics Today, a textbook now in its 9^th edition. He was Fulbright Senior Scholar at Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia during 2011-2, Visiting Professor at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi in 2018-9, and Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at Uppsala University in 2026.