Josephine Harmon

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Josephine is a researcher in Political Science, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Political Science at New York University (NYU) under the Global Studies Program, and a completing doctoral researcher at University College London. She has lectured on the British Library's US Politics Today programme since 2019, and in November 2022 delivered two lectures at the US Embassy in London. She has taught at UCL, King's College London, the University of Bath, and the University of Exeter. In 2018, she was a Visiting Assistant in Research at Yale University. 

Her research focuses on strategic behaviour, social networks in policy formation, political beliefs, the origins of partisanship, and explanations for populism since 2016. Before her PhD, Josephine worked in public policy with a Member of Parliament and the Labour Party, and in UK-EU policy at several political campaigns and think tanks including the Remain Campaign and UK in a Changing Europe. She is on the executive committees of the Political Studies Association's American Politics Group and Conservative Studies Group.

Alongside her academic work, she is currently producing a report on living standards among millennials. She has published in Critical Studies-Critical Methodologies and the Washington Post. She has won research prizes including the 2020 APG Richard E. Neustadt Paper Prize. She tweets @Josephine_HAR.

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