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.

curriculum vitae

• “Do gun policy specifics matter? Hyper-polarization and the decline of vote splitting in Congress.” The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics. Vol. 18 (2). July 2020, 249-282.
• “Evolution and Electoral Implications of Congressional Gun Control Issue Framing: “From Crime Control to Mass Shootings.” Journal of Policy History. Vol. 35 (1). June 2022, 440-472.
• Panel presentation, “The Specter of Violence in American Politics: Guns, Conspiracism, and Party Tribalism” at the New England Political Science Association annual conference, April 19, 2024.

• Titmuss Prize for Master’s Dissertation titled “Three Strikes and You’re Out (for life): The Policy Failure of California’s Three Strikes Law,” Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, December 2013.
• Samuel and Clara Mendel Memorial Book Prize for Honors Thesis titled, “Sealing the Crack(s): Restoring Justice to Federal Crack Cocaine Sentencing,” Trinity College, May 2012.