Iris Acquarone is a PhD candidate at Rice University specializing in comparative politics. Her research investigates the causes and consequences of political representation, with a particular focus on historically marginalized groups in Western democracies. Her dissertation research examines the conditions that cause (1) party gatekeepers to select candidates from marginalized groups and (2) incentivize candidates from those groups to emerge, combining field elite experiments, survey experiments, and observational analysis. In other works, she explores the interrelations between political institutions, attitudes and behavior, and, political representation outcomes. Iris holds a master’s degree in political science, a graduate diploma in economics, and a graduate certificate in teaching and learning. She is an instructor of quantitative analysis for social sciences and serves in multiple service roles at the institutional and disciplinary level. In the past, Iris has worked on reducing gender and racial inequality from a public policy standpoint in association with researchers and social, governmental and international organizations in Uruguay, and intends to continue promoting change through publicly engaged research. She will use the 2023 Latino Scholarship Fund to attend the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting to present her work on party candidate selection.
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