Shana Gadarian is an American political scientist, political psychologist, and educator. She is the Merle Goldberg Fabian Professor of Excellence in Citizenship and Critical Thinking and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University. Her co-authored book Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World received the Robert E. Lane Award for being the best book in political psychology published in 2015. Her 2022 coauthored book, Pandemic Politics has been named a best book of 2023 by Foreign Affairs.