Amelia Malpas

Hello! I am a Ph.D. student in Government at Harvard University studying American and comparative politics. I am also a graduate affiliate of Harvard's Center for American Political Studies, Center for European Studies, and Institute for Quantitative Social Science. 

I am broadly interested in the relationship between elite politics and societal distribution of resources. I address this topic via two lines of work, the first oriented around contemporary and the second around historical developments. My primary research agenda concerns the political economy of political parties, with particular attention to factional conflict within them over distributional issues. My emergent secondary research agenda pertains to the connection between imperialism and metropolitan welfare states and democracy. 

My co-authored work on the Democratic Party has been published in the peer-reviewed journals Perspectives on Politics and The Forum and solo work in popular outlets such as the Washington Post Monkey Cage. These have been cited in the New York Times, The Nation, and FiveThirtyEight, among other publications. 

Before beginning my Ph.D., I earned an A.B. in Politics and Geography from Mount Holyoke College and worked as a pre-doctoral fellow at Yale University. I am originally from northern California.