Jana Morgan

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Jana Morgan joined the Department of Political Science in Fall 2005 after completing her PhD (2005) and M.A. (2001) in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jana received her B.A. in Political Science and Modern Languages from Wheaton College in 1998. 

In her primary area of research, Jana examines why party systems transform and assesses the impact of such transformation on the nature of democratic contestation. This research has been supported by a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant, the Pew Foundation as well as funding from the University of North Carolina's Graduate School and Institute for Latin American Studies and the University of Tennessee's Professional Development Awards. Jana also conducts research concerning partisanship and political parties in Latin America; economic voting; civic engagement, democracy, and women in the Dominican Republic; and religion and Latinos in the United States. Jana has conducted field research in Venezuela, Peru, and Argentina, and has lived and studied in Mexico and Ecuador. Her research has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Latin American Research Review, and Politics and Gender.

 

Contact Information

Jana Morgan
Professor
Ph.D. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2005
Phone: (865) 974-7043
Email: janamorgan@utk.edu  

Field of Study

Comparative Politics (Latin American Politics)