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. My primary research agenda to address this topic concerns how political parties' and intraparty factions' policy programs exacerbate, maintain, or ameliorate socioeconomic inequalities. Put most directly, I study the political economy of parties with special attention to factional conflict within them over distributional issues. 

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.