Dr. Marci Shieh

Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Dr. Marcy Shieh is currently a RISE UPP Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte during the 2023-2024 academic year. Starting in 2024, she will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Miami University in Ohio.

Dr. Shieh studies American politics with a concentration in judicial politics. Her research interests include state supreme courts, federal courts, and the criminal justice system more broadly. She applies methods such as text analysis and survey experiments to conduct her research. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Social Science Quarterly, Open Judicial Politics and the Research Handbook of Judicial Politics.

Dr. Shieh received her PhD in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2023. She graduated from the University of California, Davis with a BA in political science and philosophy with a minor in statistics in 2014. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a technical project coordinator at a healthcare policy firm.

In her spare time, she enjoys hanging out with her cat, eating and cooking food, and watching films and television. 

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