Welcome to our new Lecturer in US Politics

Dr Proctor is a political scientist specialising in US politics and elections. His work explores how political institutions and elections shape group and identity formation, political behaviour, and representation among marginalized groups.

His book project Come Out Voting explains how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) identities, group boundaries, and partisanship have been constructed and contested through activist-party interactions in the US party system. The book is an extension of his dissertation, which won the Kenneth Sherrill Dissertation Award from the Sexuality and Politics Division of the American Political Science Association.

Dr Proctor’s work has also been published in leading journals in political science, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, Politics, Groups, & Identities, Political Research Quarterly, PS: Politics and Political Science, and Sage Open.

Dr Andrew Proctor comes to UCL Institute of the Americas after holding academic appointments at the University of Chicago, Wake Forest University, and the University of Minnesota. He holds a PhD in Politics and a certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies from Princeton University. At UCL, he will be facilitating modules on US elections and behaviour, research methods, and LGBTQ and identity politics.

Links

• Dr Proctor’s personal website
• Kenneth Sherrill Dissertation Award