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Ph.D. Candidate Department of Political Science MIT jenglish@mit.edu |
Welcome!
I am a PhD candidate in Political Science at MIT. I will be a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford (2024-25) and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Reed College (2025-). My research focuses on political behavior, interracial solidarity, and the carceral state in American politics. Ongoing projects on interracial solidarity include “Dilemmas of Accommodation,” which explores the barriers to deliberation and collective action in racially diverse churches, and “The Content of Intergroup Contact,” which examines how interracial contact can overcome these barriers. My work on the carceral state includes projects on the political consequences of “carceral political discussion” and the impact of militarized policing on perceptions of the Black Lives Matter movement. Across my research, I use ethnographic methods, in-depth interviews, original surveys, and experiments. My research has been published or conditionally accepted by the American Political Science Review and Politics, Groups, and Identities. I received my B.A. from UCLA, where I graduated summa cum laude with degrees in Political Science and Economics. I am a proud (and happily retired) former member of the UCLA Rowing Team, and was UCLA's Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2018. I am originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland. |