Emily West is an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a scholar of political behavior whose research focuses on the politics of identity, including gender, race, class and partisanship, primarily in the context of U.S. politics, but often generalizing to Comparative contexts. The central motivation of this work is to better understand the democratic implications of identity politics with two strands of research, the first on descriptive representation and the second on bias and discrimination. In applying core concepts from psychology and political science, Emily’s research contributes to long-standing theoretical debates. Her work is also public-facing, in that it engages contemporary questions about identity that are of interest to a wide range of audiences. Emily’s research has been published or is forthcoming in Journal of Politics, Political Science Research and Methods, and Political Behavior.
Emily West is an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a scholar of political behavior whose research focuses on the politics of identity, including gender, race, class and partisanship, primarily in the context of U.S. politics, but often generalizing to Comparative contexts. The central motivation of this work is to better understand the democratic implications of identity politics with two strands of research, the first on descriptive representation and the second on bias and discrimination. In applying core concepts from psychology and political science, Emily’s research contributes to long-standing theoretical debates. Her work is also…