Mayya Komisarchik

Mayya Komisarchik

Assistant Professor of Political Science



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by appointment


Profile:

PhD, Harvard, 2019. American politics, political methodology. Mayya Komisarchik's substantive interests focus on representation, voting rights, race and ethnic politics, policing, immigration, and political incorporation. Her recent work has addressed changing electoral rules in southern counties in the wake of the Voting Rights Act, the lasting effects of Japanese Internment, representativeness in policing, and the political incorporation of immigrants to the United States. Her work on the role of compactness in redistricting has been published in the American Journal of Political Science and won the Robert H. Durr award for the best article applying quantitative methods to a substantive problem in 2019. Her work on the impact of Japanese Internment is forthcoming in the Journal of Politics.


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