February 24, 2025
For political scientist Mellissa Meisels, congressional primaries are like a show she can’t turn off.
As a child, she eagerly tracked congressional elections near her hometown. Now, as a member of Yale’s faculty, she gets to advance her research alongside other top scholars in the field.
Currently a postdoctoral fellow in Yale’s Center for the Study of American Politics, this summer Meisels will become Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Prior to Yale, Meisels served as a Democracy Center Visiting Scholar at the University of Rochester in March of 2023.
You can read the full biography here.