Education
University of Pittsburgh. University of Texas at Austin.
University of Pittsburgh. University of Texas at Austin.
He is a Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Hetherington has taught at the University of Virginia, Princeton University, Bowdoin College, and Vanderbilt University. He received a bachelor degree from University of Pittsburgh and a Doctor of Philosophy in Government from the University of Texas at Austin.
Hetherington is married to Suzanne Globetti, a political scientist at Vanderbilt University.
Hetherington is author of Why Trust Matters: Declining Political Trust and the Demise of American Liberalism and Parties, Politics, and Public Policy in America with William Keefe, and of Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics with Jonathan Weiler.