Shannon P. Carcelli

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park Department of Government and Politics.

My work is published or forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and other outlets. My book, Competing for Foreign Aid: The Congressional Roots of Bureaucratic Fragmentation, is under contract at Oxford University Press.

I study the role of legislative and bureaucratic institutions in foreign policy, especially in the United States. In my book manuscript, I find that the process of bargaining and vote-buying, often necessary to create congressional coalitions, has led to a complicated, ineffective bureaucracy.

I hold a PhD in political science from the University of California San Diego and a BA from Carleton College, in addition to three years’ experience working in the field of international development. During the 2018-2019 academic year I served as a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University’s Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. During fall of 2023, I was a Visiting Scholar at the George Washington University Institute for Security and Conflict Studies (ISCS).