Genevieve Quinn began her academic career as an undergraduate at Trinity College, where she majored in Public Policy and Law under the guidance of Professors Adrienne Fulco and Ned Cabot, receiving the Samuel and Clara Mendel Memorial Book Prize for her honors thesis on federal crack cocaine sentencing. After Trinity, she pursued a master’s degree in criminal justice policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, winning the Titmuss Prize for her thesis on California’s three strikes law. She went on to complete a Ph.D in Political Science at Oxford University in November 2019, writing her thesis on political polarization and the gun control issue. Since then, she has worked as a research consultant for UN Women at their headquarters in New York City, and most recently as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Quinnipiac University, where she teaches courses on a range of topics related to American politics, including gun control politics and policy, criminal justice policy, U.S. foreign policy, the politics of intimacy, and more.

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