Wayde Z.C. Marsh joined the department as an assistant professor in August 2023. He completed his PhD in political science at the University of Notre Dame in 2022 and had a one-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis.

His research focuses on American elections and voting behavior, polarization, public opinion, and local political economy. He also researches in the areas of political psychology, politics and religion, and racial and ethnic politics, and has published in the American Political Science Review, Public Opinion Quarterly, American Politics Research, and Politics, Groups, and Identities. His book project focuses on the political consequences of traumatic events in an era of mass polarization. 

Marsh is also involved in a large collaborative effort called the Strengthening Democracy Challenge, which tests interventions to decrease levels of partisan animosity, strengthen commitments to democratic ideals, and reduce support for partisan violence.

Marsh enjoys teaching courses on political attitudes and behaviors, identity politics, campaigns and elections, and political psychology.