R. Gordon Rinderknecht is a nonresident fellow with GMF’s Democracy and Security Network. A specialist in survey design and public opinion measurement, he researches public attitudes in the United States toward the politicization of the military.

Rinderknecht served previously as a behavioral scientist at RAND, where his research examined non-monetary caregiving burdens and personnel issues in the US military. Prior to that, he completed his postdoctoral research in the Department of Digital and Computational Demography at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. His research there—part of the Assessing the Social Consequences of COVID-19 study—focused on digital-technology-related and pandemic-related impacts on daily life and well-being in the United States.

Rinderknecht received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Maryland in 2020. His co-authored book on the situational predictors of loneliness is forthcoming with Edward Elgar Publishing.