Welcome to my website! My name is Jamil Scott and I’m an assistant professor at Georgetown University in the Government Department. 

I study political behavior among political elites and the mass public in the United States context. I’m particularly interested in how race and gender impact the decision to participate in activities like running for office, voting, and engaging with politics more generally. In addition, my work considers how candidates’ and officeholders’ race and gender identities impact their decision-making as well as how these identities shape the way these individuals are perceived.

My work has been published in journals such as Politics, Groups and Identities, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, and American Politics Research. I am currently working on a book length manuscript in which I seek to understand Black women’s political emergence in state-level politics.  In addition, I serve as a co-director for the Georgetown GREP Lab.