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New Faculty Fellows 2011-12
From left: IPR Director Fay Lomax Cook welcomes new fellows—political scientists Daniel Galvin and Georgia Kernell and
social demographer Quincy Thomas Stewart (far right)—with Associate Director David Figlio.
Daniel Galvin Georgia Kernell Quincy Thomas Stewart
Assistant Professor of Political Science;
PhD, Political Science,
Yale University, 2006
Daniel Galvin’s primary areas of research
and teaching include the American presidency,
political parties, and American
political development. He is the author
of Presidential Party Building: Dwight D.
Eisenhower to George W. Bush (Princeton
University Press, 2009), several journal
articles, and is co-editor of Rethinking
Political Institutions: The Art of the State
(NYU Press, 2006). His new book project,
“Rust Belt Democrats: Party Legacies
and Adaptive Capacities in Postindustrial
America” (under contract with Oxford
University Press), examines the factors
that have facilitated or frustrated Democrats’
efforts to remain competitive in the
face of socioeconomic upheaval in the
Rust Belt region since the 1970s.
Galvin, who is in IPR’s research program
in Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy, has
received fellowships from the National
Science Foundation, the Center for the
Study of the Presidency and Congress,
the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation,
and the Eisenhower Foundation.
Assistant Professor of Political Science;
PhD, Political Science,
Columbia University, 2008
Georgia Kernell’s research spans the
areas of comparative politics, quantitative
methodology, and American politics. In
particular, she is interested in political
parties, political behavior, electoral politics,
gender quotas and representation, and
measuring the ideology of voters and
representatives. She is part of IPR’s
research programs in Politics, Institutions,
and Public Policy and in Quantitative
Methods for Policy Research.
Kernell is currently working on several
projects that examine the institutions that
regulate party diversity, the normative
implications of party organizations
for representation, and how political
information shapes consumer sentiment.
She uses formal modeling to identify the
strategic incentives for parties to field
a more or less heterogeneous set of
candidates in legislative elections. Kernell
is also co-authoring a paper with graduate
student Kevin Mullinix that examines the
conditions under which partisan biases
are most likely to exist.
Associate Professor of Sociology;
PhD, Demography and Sociology,
University of Pennsylvania, 2001
As a social demographer, Quincy
Thomas Stewart is interested in the
dynamic processes that create inequalities
in socioeconomic status, health, and
mortality. He has published on quantitative
methods for studying inequality and
estimating mortality, as well as on racial
and ethnic disparities in socioeconomic
status, health, and mortality.
Stewart’s current work includes
analyzing theories of racial inequality
using agent-based models, examining the
role of disease prevalence in mortality
outcomes, and studying racial disparities
in a range of outcomes including attitudes,
socioeconomic status, and health. He is
part of IPR’s research programs in Social
Disparities and Health and in Poverty,
Race, and Inequality.
In 2006–08, Stewart was a Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in
Health Policy Research at the University
of Michigan. Before joining Northwestern,
he was a faculty member in sociology at
Indiana University.
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