Rate My Professor David Smith

Smith's key publication is the book Religious Persecution and Political Order in the United States, published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. His peer-reviewed articles include ‘The Unhealthy Other’: How vaccine rejecting parents construct the vaccinating mainstream (2018), Parenting as politics: social identity theory and vaccine hesitant communities (2017), Support for a COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the face of safety concerns and political affiliations: An Australian study (2022), and American evangelicals and domestic versus international climate policy (2014). These works explore themes of social identity, vaccine hesitancy, political affiliations, and evangelical perspectives on climate issues. Smith contributes to academic discourse through his ORCID identifier 0000-0001-6114-..., reflecting a body of scholarly output in political science. He engages in public-facing scholarship, delivering lectures such as on historical topics at University events and providing commentary on contemporary US political developments including presidential elections, policy shifts, and democratic institutions as featured in University of Sydney publications.