Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University

Claudine Gay

Professor of Government, Steering Committee

Claudine Gay (PhD, Harvard, 1998) is professor of government, with research and teaching interests in the fields of American political behavior, public opinion, and race and ethnic politics. Before joining the department, Gay was an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University from 2000 to 2005, and an associate professor from 2005 to 2006. From 1999 to 2000, Gay was a Visiting Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. Her research has considered the effects of descriptive representation on citizens' orientations toward their government, the role of neighborhoods in shaping the racial and political attitudes of Black Americans, and the effects of concentrated poverty on political engagement. Her work has been published in Political Psychology, the American Political Science Review, and the American Journal of Political Science.