Kristin Wylie
Guest Speaker
Professional Affiliation
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, James Madison University
Expert Bio
Kristin Wylie is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at James Madison University. She earned her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin鈥檚 Department of Government in 2012. Dr. Wylie鈥檚 research is on comparative political institutions and representation in Latin America, with an emphasis on gender and race in Brazil. Her first book, (Cambridge University Press, 2018) examines how electoral rules, voters, and political parties intersect to affect women's descriptive representation and the quality of democracy in Brazil.
