Jana Morgan

Jana Morgan is professor of political science at the University of Tennessee and editor for Politics and International Relations at Latin American Research Review.

Morgan's research centers on issues of inequality, exclusion, and representation across the Americas. Her scholarship demonstrates how persistent patterns of marginalization along the axes of race, class, and gender undermine the functioning of democracy and have significant costs for ordinary citizens and for the stability and survival of democratic regimes.

In addition to her two books, Morgan's work has been published in numerous edited volumes and journals including the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, Latin American Research Review, and Politics & Gender, among others. Her research has received funding from the Russell Sage Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Program, and the Pew Foundation.

Her book Bankrupt Representation and Party System Collapse received the Van Cott Best Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association as well as an Honorable Mention for the Fernando Coronil Book Award from the Venezuela Studies Section of the same association.

She earned her PhD and MA in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. in Political Science and Modern Languages (Spanish) from Wheaton College.

More information can be found at: https://janamorgan.utk.edu/