Deborah J. Schildkraut is an American political scientist. She is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Tufts University, where she has also been department chair. She studies the relationship between American public opinion and the changing ethnic composition of the United States. She is an expert on American national identity, and how it interacts with immigration to the United States. Education and positions Schildkraut studied political science at Tufts University, obtaining a BA in political science in 1995. She then attended graduate school in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, where she earned an MA in 1995 and a PhD in 2000. After graduating with her PhD in 2000, Schildkraut joined the Department of Politics at Oberlin College. In 2004, she moved to Tufts University. She was the chair of the Department of Political Science at Tufts University from 2015 to 2018, and began a second term as department chair in 2019. In addition to the Department of Political Science, she has also been affiliated with the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life since 2015, and has been a faculty fellow there. Research In 2005, Schildkraut published the book Press "One" for English: Language Policy, Public Opinion, and American Identity. In Press "One" for English, Schildkraut uses opinion data from sources like public opinion surveys and focus groups to study the popularity of legislation that would make English the sole national language of the United States, arguing that peoples' opinions on language policy issues are shaped by their ideas about American national identity. Schildkraut examines how four major themes in American identity — liberalism, ethnoculturalism, civic republicanism, and the continual incorporation of immigrant groups — affect respondents' views on three potential policies: making English the official language of the United States, mandating that election ballots can only be printed in English, and ceasing to offer bilingual education in American schools. Schildkraut introduces the last of these themes in American identity as an extension of a theory by Rogers Smith, giving the name "incorporationism" to the continual assimilation or incorporation of immigrant groups into the American polity. Schildkraut shows that invoking different themes of American identity can affect respondents' attitudes towards the various language policies; for example, endorsing ethnoculturalism can increase respondents' support for making English the American national language, whereas rejecting ethnoculturalism can decrease it. Schildkraut also shows that the relationship between conceptions of American