External Grants:

• King, Jonathan M. and Jessica A. Schoenherr (Co-PIs). "Collaborative Proposal: Precedent-Altering Opinions and Collegiality on the U.S. Supreme Court." National Science Foundation, Law and Science Program. March 2024-February 2026. Total award: $159,476 (WVU portion of award: $84,673).

• King, Jonathan M. (Co-PI) and Ryan C. Black (PI). "Doctoral Dissertation Research: Personality Trait Estimation of U.S. Federal Circuit Court Judges." National Science Foundation, Law and Science Program. August 2020-July 2022. $31,300.

Publications:

1. Armaly, Miles T. , Jonathan M. King, Elizabeth A. Lane , and Jessica A. Schoenherr. "An Ecclesiastical Court: Christian Nationalism and Perceptions of the U.S. Supreme Court." Forthcoming. American Journal of Political Science. [Paper] [Appendix] [Dataverse]

2. King, Jonathan M., Jessica A. Schoenherr and Katelyn E. Stauffer . "'You Reached Out to Me for Help:' Female Attorneys, Anti-Feminist Causes, and their Effects on Symbolic Representation." Forthcoming. Politics and Gender. [Paper][Appendix]

   
   
   • Winner of the 2024 C. Neal Tate Award for Best Paper in Judicial Politics, Southern Political Science Association
   
   

3. Bird, Christine C., Jonathan M. King, and Zachary A. McGee . "The Influence of Federalist Society Affiliation on Senator Voting in Federal Judicial Nominations." Forthcoming. Journal of Law and Courts. [Paper] [Appendix] [Dataverse]

4. King, Jonathan M. and Ian Ostrander. "Quick to Judge? Confirmation by Cloture in the Post-Nuclear Senate." 2025. American Politics Research. 53(6): 607-624. [Paper]

5. King, Jonathan M., Jessica A. Schoenherr, and Ian Ostrander. "Anchoring or Expanding? Gender and Judicial Nominations." 2024. Political Research Quarterly 78(1): 135-150. [Paper] [Appendix] [Dataverse]

6. King, Jonathan M. and Jessica A. Schoenherr. "A Matter of Opinion? How Unexpected Opinion Authors Influence Support for Supreme Court Decisions." 2024. Journal of Law and Courts 12(1): 144-164. [Paper] [Appendix] [Dataverse]

7. King, Jonathan M., Peter McAndrews, and Ian Ostrander. "President Trump and the Politics of Judicial Nominations." 2022. Justice System Journal 43(4): 521-543. [Paper]

8. King, Jonathan M. and Ian Ostrander. "Prioritizing Judicial Nominations after Presidential Transitions." 2020. Presidential Studies Quarterly 50(3): 592-610. [Paper]