About Josephine Harmon
Josephine Harmon is political scientist who specialises in US politics, political behaviour, comparative Western politics and thematically works on ideology and rationality, belief-based behaviour, political communication and political thought, including work on rationality versus long-term planning under London’s ULEZ policy and online political behaviour. She uses empirical and theoretical approaches in her research.
Josephine did her PhD and prior degrees at University College London and Yale University. In 2020 she won a Harvard University Press-sponsored research paper prize, a University College London research prize, a UCL grant and a research fellowship at Yale in 2018. She has also been nominated for three outstanding teaching awards in her previous posts.
She held positions at a range of institutions including New York University, The British Library, King’s College London, the University of Exeter, the University of Bath and University College London, where she taught a broad teaching portfolio across comparative politics, Western politics, US history and politics, British politics, post-colonial international politics, political ecology and a range of other subjects.
Josephine has been published, among others, in Sociology Lens, Critical Studies-Critical Methodologies and The Washington Post. She enjoys hiking and art in her spare time.