Professor Hillygus has published widely on the topics of American political behavior, campaigns and elections, survey methods, public opinion, and information  technology and politics.  She is co-author of Making Young Voters:  Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action (Cambridge University Press, 2020), The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Political Campaigns (Princeton University Press, 2008) and The Hard Count: The Social and Political Challenges of the 2000 Census (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006).  She is director of the Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology and co-director of the Polarization Lab.  From 2003-2009, she taught at Harvard University, where she was the Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government and founding director of the Program on Survey Research.