Draft:Bernard Tamas

Bernard Tamas is a professor of political science at Valdosta State University. Previously, he was a Visiting Research Scholar at Columbia University and has taught at Illinois State University, Williams College, and Brandeis University. He has held a Fulbright scholarship to the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard-MIT Data Center at Harvard University.

Tamas received grant funding from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab and the Centennial Center Research Grants program of the American Political Science Association for his project on voter suppression and electoral bias. Some findings from this project were published in an opinion piece in The Conversation.

His opinions and interviews on third parties in the United States have been published in several media outlets. Tamas is the author of the book, The Demise and Rebirth of American Third Parties: Poised for Political Revival? (Routledge, 2018).