Biography

Josephine Harmon is a political scientist who specialises in US politics, political behaviour, comparative Western politics, EU politics and digital politics, with some presence in British politics. Thematically she works on ideology, belief-based behaviour and political thought, and online political behaviour. She uses empirical and theoretical approaches in her research.

In 2020 she won a PSA research paper prize, a University College London research prize, a UCL grant and a research fellowship at Yale in 2018. She has also been nominated for three outstanding teaching awards in her previous posts.

She held positions at a range of institutions including New York University, The British Library, King’s College London, the University of Exeter, the University of Bath and University College London, where she taught a broad teaching portfolio across comparative politics, Western politics, US history and politics, British politics, post-colonial international politics, political ecology and a range of other subjects.

Josephine has been published, among others, in Sociology Lens, Critical Studies-Critical Methodologies and The Washington Post. She enjoys hiking and art in her spare time.