Meet Naomi Nubin-Sellers, Dartmouth College
Project Title: State of the Environment: State Politics, Policy Feedback, and Environmental Restoration
Naomi Nubin-Sellers is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College. Her research focuses on public policy, state politics, and racial and ethnic politics, with a particular interest in understanding how the design of means-tested social programs shapes the political lives of the people who depend on them. Her current work asks how punitive policy features such as sanctions, surveillance, and bureaucratic burden function as barriers to full democratic participation for low-income households of color, and what that means for the health of American democracy. Her peer-reviewed work is forthcoming in State Politics and Policy Quarterly. Her newest work examines how state political institutions shape environmental remediation outcomes at toxic waste sites and how those outcomes feed back into the democratic attitudes of the communities who bear a disproportionate burden of toxic exposure.
About the APSA Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars
The APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grants provide support for research that examines political science phenomena affecting historically underserved communities and underrepresented groups and communities. In July 2026, APSA awarded 15 projects for the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant for Early Career Scholars for a combined total award amount of 30,000.
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