Sara Morell

Sara Morell was born in New York City. She received her B.A. from Swarthmore College and her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan. She started at The College of New Jersey in 2023.

Sara Morell’s research is at the intersection of gender and American politics. Her current book project considers the relationship between women candidate training organizations and increases in women’s political candidacies in the United States. This project demonstrates that the gendered signal sent by women’s candidate training organizations increases women’s beliefs that these organizations will address their material and psychological barriers to running. This has implications both for women’s individual-level ambition and state-level representation. Her research has been published in the British Journal of Political Science and she has received grants from Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) and the American Political Science Association’s Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section.

At TCNJ, Sara teaches courses in American Government, Political Analysis (a course on the foundations of political science research), and Gender Politics. Sara currently lives in Philadelphia with her fiancé, Anna.