APSA is happy to announce that Chloe Thurston, Associate Professor of Political Science and Mary McGrath are joining the Perspectives on Politics editorial team as Associate Editors in American Politics.
Chloe Thurston, Associate Professor of Political Science; Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University
Professor Thurston’s research is on American political development, political economy, and public policy, with a particular interest in how politics and public policy shape market inequality, including along the lines of race and gender. She is the author of At the Boundaries of Homeownership: Credit, Discrimination and the American State (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and co-author (with Emily Zackin) of The Political Development of American Debt Relief (University of Chicago Press, 2024). Her research has been published in journals including Perspectives in Politics, Studies in American Political Development, Politics, Groups, and Identities, and the Journal of Public Policy, and commentaries have appeared in The Daily Beast, Ms., and The Monkey Cage (Washington Post), among others.
Thurston received her B.A. in economics and political science from Johns Hopkins University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2019-2020) and an American Political Economy Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin (2025).
Find out more about Thurston’s work here.
Mary McGrath, Assistant Professor of Political Science; Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University
Mary McGrath studies political behavior, using quantitative methods to investigate processes of political decision-making and opinion formation. Her current focus is on how collaboration can shape the way people perceive and treat others, including the effects of collaboration on politically important outcomes such as trust, tolerance, and willingness to sacrifice. She is also interested in the interaction between partisanship and information use, particularly in the context of climate change. Other recent projects include studies of voter turnout, candidate extremism, the relationship between economic behavior and partisanship, and the role of partisanship in the interpretation of scientific evidence. She also has research interests in methodology and epistemology, including the role of replication in the scientific process and how scientific information is incorporated into public opinion and public policy.
Her work has been published in Nature Human Behavior, Nature Climate Change, The Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Business & Politics and Current Research in Behavioral Science, among other journals
Find out more about McGrath’s work here.
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