Sharon E. Jarvis is Professor, Department of Communication Studies, and Associate Director of Research at the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t: How Journalists Sideline Electoral Participation (Without Even Knowing It) (with Soo-Hye Han), Political Keywords: Using Language that Uses Us (with Roderick P. Hart, Deborah Smith-Howell, and William Jennings), and Talk of the Party: Political Labels, Symbolic Capital & American Life. Her research focuses on political language, partisan communication, and persuasion.