Biography

Brandon Rottinghaus is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston.  A native of Dallas, Texas, he holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University.  His teaching and research interests center on Texas politics, public opinion, and executive and legislative relations.  He is the author of several books, dozens of academic journals, and editor and contributor to multiple edited volumes.  Most recently he is the author of the books Inside Texas Politics, Current Debates in the Lone Star State, Inside American Government (all Oxford University Press), and Rick Perry:  A Political Life (University of Texas Press) – and most recently, Scandal:  How Politicians Survive Controversy in a Polarized Era (Columbia University Press).  

He has provided commentary on national and Texas politics in hundreds of media outlets.  He is the co-host of Party Politics, a PBS TV8 program on Houston Public Media, a political analyst for KHOU 11 in Houston, and the creator and host of Texperts, a political primer podcast and radio segment on Hello Houston on Houston Public Media.  

Drop me a line at [email protected]

Twitter:  @bjrottinghaus