Isaiah Raynal an interdisciplinary researcher who enjoys using mixed methods to understand people's attitudes. His primary expertise is in designing, administering, and analyzing original surveys and survey experiments as well as performing content analysis on text data. He is particularly passionate about taking a normative and outcome-based approach to research, aiming to make a tangible impact on the real world.

Currently, Isaiah is a 4th-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science. He studies American Politics and is interested in political behavior, political communications, and political psychology. His dissertation hopes to identify practical solutions for reducing animosity between Republicans and Democrats. Specifically, he hypothesizes that reducing the salience of partisan identity and increasing the salience of other identities can improve affect towards outpartisans. To test this hypothesis, he plans to administer two survey experiments that expose participants to hypothetical outpartisans with shared identities or positive characteristics.