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

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 affect decisions 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, Journal of Politics, and American Politics Research. My book-length manuscript on Black women’s emergence in state-level politics is forthcoming at the University of Michigan Press.  In addition, I serve as a co-director for the Georgetown GREP Lab.