Dominik A. Stecuła is an assistant professor in the School of Communication and in political science (by courtesy) at The Ohio State University. His research focuses on how media and communication shape political behavior, public opinion and polarization, with special attention to misinformation, science communication and the political effects of media narratives.

Stecuła’s current projects explore how the rise of sports betting is reshaping public attitudes and decision-making and how sports fandom can serve as a shared identity to help bridge America’s growing partisan divides. He has published extensively in top journals, including Political Communication, The British Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Communication, and PLOS One, and is co-author of We Need to Talk: How Cross-Party Dialogue Reduces Affective Polarization (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Before joining Ohio State, he served on the faculty at Colorado State University and as a Martin Fishbein Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center.

As a faculty affiliate with the Sports and Society Initiative, Stecuła contributes to interdisciplinary research on how sports media and fandom intersect with politics, polarization and public understanding.