The Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL) is thrilled to announce one of our newest faculty affiliates, Jaclyn Kaslovsky. Kaslovsky is an Assistant Professor at the Washington University in St. Louis. She specializes in American politics, focusing on Congress, representation, and women in politics. In her current work, Professor Kaslovsky analyzes how legislators choose to allocate their resources, including their time and staff, and the effect of these choices on the legislator-constituent relationship. Professor Kaslovsky’s other projects leverage unique time series and congressional speech datasets to explore the consequences of increasing diversity in Congress for representation and how legislator behavior has evolved over time. Her work has been published in journals such as the American Political Science Review and The Journal of Politics. She received her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University.

We are excited to bring Professor Kaslovsky’s academic rigor and keenness to the CEL in the advancement of understanding legislative productivity.