EMORY POLITICAL SCIENCE - Key Persons
Prior to joining the faculty at Emory in 2014, Glynn held positions as Assistant and Associate Professor at Harvard University. Glynn's research focuses on causal inference and sampling/survey design for political science applications. His articles have been published in a number of leading journals including the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Political Analysis, and Public Opinion Quarterly.
Alan Abramowitz's research interests are in American politics, political parties, elections, and voting behavior. His current research involves party realignment in the U.S. and its consequences for presidential and congressional elections.
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- Associate Professor
- Education
Alex Bolton writes and teaches on a variety of questions in the realm of American political institutions, with a focus on the US executive branch, Congress, and separation of powers politics. His research has been published in leading journals, including American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and others. He is also the coauthor of Checks in the Balance: Legislative Capacity and the Dynamics of Executive Power (Princeton University Press, 2022), which won the Neustadt Award and Rosenthal Award from the American Political Science Association. His current research projects are focused on the causes and consequences of diversity among congressional staff; the political development of the administrative state and executive power; unionization in the federal workforce; and the intersection of administrative law and politics.
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- Associate Professor
- Andra Gillespie Associate Professor / Education
Andra Gillespie's courses and research cover African American Politics, particularly the politics of the post-Civil Rights generation of leadership, and political participation, in which she uses experimental methods of inquiry.
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- Education
- Professor Emeritus
Harvey Klehr received the Emory Williams Teaching Award (1983), Emory University Scholar-Teacher of the Year (1995) and the Thomas Jefferson Award (1999). His research interests center around American communism and Soviet espionage in America. His most recent publication is Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America. (Yale, 2009). He served on the National Council on the Humanities from 2005-2011. He was selected to give the Distinguished Faculty Lecture during Founders' Week in 2012.
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- Candler Professor Emeritus
- Education
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor / Education
Benjamin Haines is an intellectual historian and political theorist. His research focuses on John Locke, early modern England, and American political thought.
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- Benjamin Sylvia Graduate Student
- Graduate Student
- Graduate Student Bios
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- Ann and Michael Hankin Distinguished Professor
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- Professor in the Department of Political Science
Bernard L. Fraga is a professor in the Department of Political Science and faculty coordinator of the Latinx Studies Initiative at Emory University. He studies American elections, focusing on racial/ethnic politics, voter turnout, and the impact of election laws on voters and politicians. He received his B.A. in Political Science and Linguistics from Stanford University and Ph.D. in Government and Social Policy from Harvard University.
Broadly speaking, Fraga studies how racial/ethnic identity and context shape our political behaviors. His award-winning 2018 book The Turnout Gap: Race, Ethnicity, and Political Inequality in a Diversifying America provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of race and voter turnout, examining White, Black, Latinx, and Asian American voting patterns from the 1800s to the present. The Turnout Gap documents large and persistent racial/ethnic gaps in participation and explains the causes and consequences of these disparities, indicting a lack of mobilization and engagement with a diversifying electorate.
Fraga also conducts work on who runs for office, youth voter turnout, partisan competition, voter suppression, and other topics related to contemporary American elections. His research has been published in leading journals including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, Electoral Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Politics, Groups, and Identities,Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, and the Stanford Law Review. Findings from Fraga's work have been featured in various media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, National Public Radio, CNN, and The Economist. Fraga's research has been supported by the Carnegie Corporation, National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, and various academic institutions. He has won multiple awards including the APSA Section on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Emerging Scholar Award, the APSA Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Best Book Award, the MPSA Lucius Barker Award, and the MPSA Latina/o Caucus Early Career Award. Fraga has also served as an expert consultant on multiple cases dealing with elections and voting rights, and regularly advises organizations dedicated to enhancing the civic and electoral engagement of all Americans.
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- Beth Reingold Professor & Director of Graduate Admissions and Placement / Education
- Professor & Director of Graduate Admissions and Placement
- Professor of Political Science
Beth Reingold is Professor of Political Science and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley and her BA in Political Science and History from Rice University. Her work engages questions about the complex relationships between gender, race/ethnicity, and political representation, primarily in and around legislative institutions in the U.S. states. Her first book, Representing Women: Sex, Gender, and Legislative Behavior in Arizona and California won the 2023 Mac Jewell Enduring Contribution Book Award, given by the APSA State Politics & Policy Section. Her most recent book, Race, Gender, and Political Representation: Toward a More Intersectional Approach, is co-authored with Kerry Haynie (Duke University) and Kirsten Widner (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) and won the 2021 Richard Fenno, Jr. Prize for the best book in Legislative Studies. It examines how gender and race interact to affect the election, behavior, and impact of individual state legislators and demonstrates how intersectionality, as a critical epistemology, compels us to re-evaluate the entire study of gender, race, and representation. Prof. Reingold's current research focuses more intently on questions about legislative power and influence. It seeks to understand whether and how members of marginalized groups attain institutional power and how the institutions, norms, and processes that effect legislative power are themselves raced and/or gendered. With Irene Browne (Emory University, Department of Sociology), she is also working on an NSF-funded project on Black elites and the politics of immigration in the American states.
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- Department Chair, Quantitative Theory and Methods
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1998
B.A., Duke University, 1991
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- Associate Professor
- Courtney Brown Associate Professor / Education
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- Associate Professor
- Education
Danielle F. Jung is an international relations scholar with interests in how legitimacy is built and maintained with applications to non-state governance including illicit organizations, and elections in the developing world. Jung uses agent-based models to study how social organizations promote cooperation, specifically within rebel groups, amongst states, and voters. She also uses survey and field experiments and conducts impact evaluations to study social and political mobilization in emerging democracies.
Education
Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1992
B.A., University of Maryland, 1985
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- Graduate Program Coordinator
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- Derek Wakefield Postdoctoral Researcher
- Postdoctoral Researcher
Derek Wakefield studies American political behavior, race and ethnic politics, political psychology, and political communication with a specific focus on Latino politics.
Education
M.Phil., Economic Research, University of Cambridge, 2020
B.Econ., Economics, Politics, and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong, 2019
Penn received her Ph.D. in Social Science from the California Institute of Technology in 2003 and her B.A. in Economics and Applied Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999. Prior to arriving at Emory she was Assistant Professor of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University (2003-2005), Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University (2005-2009), Associate Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis (2009-2015), and Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago (2015-2018).
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- Director of Undergraduate Studies
Education
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University, 1997
B.A., University of Virginia
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- Education
- President of the Southern Political Science Association
- Professor Emeritus
Micheal W. Giles has served as President of the Southern Political Science Association, Chair of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, and Editor of the Journal of Politics. His research interests span an array of topics including courts as political institutions, racial politics, and urban public policy. He is currently engaged in work focusing on issues of hierarchy within the federal courts.
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- Graduate Student
- Graduate Student Bios
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- Associate Professor
- Hubert Tworzecki Associate Professor / Education
Hubert Tworzecki (BA/MA University of British Columbia, PhD University of Toronto) is Associate Professor of Political Science. His research interests include political parties, elections, and voting in new democracies, as well as political communication and its effects. He is the author of Parties and Politics in Post-1989 Poland (Westview Press,1996) and Learning to Choose: Electoral Politics in East-Central Europe (Stanford University Press, 2002). Teaching interests include comparative politics, Eastern European politics, political behavior and survey research methods.
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- Associate Professor
- Education
J. Judd Owen's current research interests are Enlightenment and classical political philosophy. His most recent works are "John Locke's Revolution in the Law of Fashion" and "Hobbes's State of Nature as Rationalist Myth." He is currently writing a book entitled Are We Prepared to Study Aristotle's Politics?, which situates Aristotle's political philosophy in the context of his natural science as a whole.
He is the author of Religion and the Demise of Liberal Rationalism: The Foundational Crisis of the Separation of Church and State (Chicago, 2001) and Making Religion Safe for Democracy: Transformation from Hobbes to Tocqueville (Cambridge, 2015), and co-editor of Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order (Columbia, 2011).
He is director of the Franklin Fellows Program, a selective great books program for Emory undergraduates (franklinfellows.org).
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- Director of Graduate Studies
- Jack Paine Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies
Education:
Ph.D., Political Science, University of California-Berkeley
M.A., Economics, University of California-Berkeley
M.A., Political Science, University of California-Berkeley
B.A., University of Virginia
Biography:
Jack Paine's work lies at the intersection of comparative politics, international relations, and applied formal theory. His research broadly encompasses the strategic and historical origins of authoritarian/democratic political institutions and their consequences for regime stability and conflict. His work has been published or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Politics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, and World Politics.
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- Associate Professor Emeritus
- Education
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- Assistant Professor
- Jessica Sun Assistant Professor / Education
Jessica Sun's research focuses on civil conflict and authoritarian regimes. More specifically, her research uses formal models to study the domestic and international consequences of repression and tactical decision making in civil conflict. Her work has been published in journals including American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, and The Journal of Politics.
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- Education
- Professor of Political Science and Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University
John W. Patty is a Professor of Political Science and Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University. He is currently Co-editor of the Journal of Theoretical Politics and the Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions series at Cambridge University Press. Professor Patty's research focuses on mathematical models of political institutions. His substantive interests include political legitimacy, the US Congress, the federal bureaucracy, American political development, and democratic theory. His work has been published in multiple journals, including American Journal of Political Science, Annual Review of Political Science, Games & Economic Behavior, Journal of Politics, Journal of Public Policy, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and Quarterly Journal of Political Science. He also coauthored Learning While Governing (University of Chicago Press, 2012) with Sean Gailmard, which won the 2013 William H. Riker book award and the 2017 Herbert A. Simon book award, and Social Choice and Legitimacy: The Possibilities of Impossibility (Cambridge University Press, 2014) with Elizabeth Maggie Penn.
Professor Patty received his Ph.D. in Social Sciences in 2001 and his M.S. in Economics in 1999 from the California Institute of Technology after receiving his B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1996. Prior to coming to Emory, Professor Patty was Assistant Professor of Political Economy & Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University, Professor of Political Science & Director of the Center for New Institutional Social Sciences at Washington University in Saint Louis, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.
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- Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences
Education
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1979
M.A., University of North Carolina, 1975
B.A., University of Florida, 1973
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- Assistant
- Program Director
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- Undergraduate Program Coordinator
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- Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Law
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- Assistant Professor
- Kiela Crabtree Assistant Professor
Kiela Crabtree studies the politics of race, identity, violence and conflict in the United States. Her research examines how racially-targeted violence impacts political participation and public opinion, and also focuses on the political legacies of conflict in the U.S., particularly as they relate to social identity and hierarchy. Crabtree earned her PhD in 2022 from the University of Michigan and served as a post-doctoral fellow at Emory University's James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference from 2022-2023.
Education
B.A. Political Science, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Maryland: College Park
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- Assistant Teaching Professor & Director of Experiential Learning
- Matthew Baker Assistant Teaching Professor & Director of Experiential Learning / Education
Matthew E. Baker's research and teaching focus on the judicial branch and empirical legal studies, with an emphasis on judicial decision-making, judicial hierarchy, criminal trial courts, lawyers, law and society, and gender and racial diversity issues in the law. Before joining the faculty at Emory, he previously served as a public defender in Orlando, Florida.
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- Department Chair
- Professor and Department Chair
Education
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1985
M.A., University of Virginia
B.A., Westminster College
Michael Leo Owens is a scholar of urban politics; state and local politics; the politics of criminal punishment; governance and public policy processes; religion and politics; and African American politics. Author of God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black America, his current book project is Prisoners of Democracy. It interrogates public policies and political attitudes that diminish the political, social, and civil rights of persons convicted of felonies and it examines political participation by such persons to restore their political, social, and civil rights. He also is studying political dimensions and civic consequences of police-policing in the United States, including police militarization and officer-involved shootings; the political movement to push states to pass compensation laws for the wrongfully convicted; the community politics of public housing demolition; and the representation and empowerment of African-Americans in municipal government, among other studies. A 2012-2014 Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellow of The Op-Ed Project, his opinions and commentaries have appeared in media and popular outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian (U.K.), National Public Radio, and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. Owens, who holds courtesy appointments in the Departments of African American Studies and Religion, is former chair of the governing board of the Urban Affairs Association (2013-2015) and former board member for Prison Policy Initiative (2014-2016). He currently serves on the national advisory boards of the Georgia Justice Project and Foreverfamily, as well as the editorial boards of Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Urban Affairs, Politics, Groups, and Identities. Plus, he is a volunteer with the Youth Diversion Program of the DeKalb County Juvenile Court.
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- Faculty Program Coordinator
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- Associate Professor
- Education
Miguel R. Rueda is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Emory University. His research interests include electoral manipulation, civil conflict, money in politics, and political methodology. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, Political Analysis, Political Science Research and Methods, and Sociological Methods and Research.
Before joining the Emory faculty, he was a visiting research scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University (2013-2014). He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Rochester in 2014. He also holds an M.Sc. in Economics and a B.Sc. in Economics and Mathematics from La Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. In Fall 2024, he'll be a Visiting Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University.
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- Associate Professor
- Nahomi Ichino Associate Professor / Education
Professor Ichino's research is on ethnic politics, voter behavior, and political parties in developing democracies, with a regional specialization in sub-Saharan Africa. She has a secondary research interest in methodology for comparative politics. Her work has been published in American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and other outlets. She is the co-Director of Methods and Trainings at EGAP (Experiments in Governance and Politics) and her research in Ghana has been supported by the National Science Foundation.
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- Assistant Professor
- Natália Salgado Bueno Assistant Professor / Education
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- Associate Professor
- Renard Sexton Associate Professor / Education
Renard Sexton studies conflict and development with a focus on local level violence and interventions intended to curb violence. His research covers insurgency, terrorism, social conflict around natural resources, and police crackdowns; he has regional expertise in Afghanistan, Southeast Asia and Andean Latin America. His research has been published in top scholarly journals, including the American Political Science Review and American Journal of Political Science. His policy pieces and commentary have been published by The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, International Crisis Group, Foreign Policy and other outlets. Before joining Emory, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and Economics of Conflict fellow at the International Crisis Group.
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- Education
- Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor
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- Community Building and Social Change Post - Doctoral Fellow
- Postdoctoral Fellow
Sarah Roche is the incoming Community Building and Social Change Post-Doctoral Fellow. Her research examines structural inequality through the lens of micro level social patterns, particularly in the context of public education and urban neighborhoods.
Education
M.S., Political Science, Utah State University
B.A., International Relations, University of Belgrade
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- Education
- Goodrich C. White Professor
Thomas F. Remington is Goodrich C. White Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science at Emory University. He is a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and an Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. He is author of a number of books and articles. Among his publications are The Returns to Power: A Political Theory of Economic Inequality (Oxford University Press, 2023); Presidential Decrees in Russia: A Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2014); The Politics of Inequality in Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2011); The Russian Parliament: Institutional Evolution in a Transitional Regime, 1989-1999 (Yale University Press, 2001); The Politics of Institutional Choice: Formation of the Russian State Duma (co-authored with Steven S. Smith) (Princeton University Press, 2001). Other books include Politics in Russia (7th edition, 2011); Parliaments in Transition (1994); The Truth of Authority: Ideology and Communication in the Soviet Union (1988); and Building Socialism in Bolshevik Russia: Ideology and Industrial Organization, 1917-1921 (1984).
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- Professor of Law and Sam Nunn Chair in Ethics and Professionalism
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- Associate Professor
- Education
Zachary Peskowitz completed his PhD in political economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2012. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory in 2015, Peskowitz held a position as an assistant professor at Ohio State University. Peskowitz's primary research focus is American politics, with a particular interest in how elections affect policy outcomes. His articles have been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and other journals.