Meet our Faculty Affiliate: SoRelle Wyckoff Gaynor
The Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL) is pleased to announce SoRelle Wyckoff Gaynor as one of our newest faculty affiliates.
Dr. Gaynor is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, where she specializes in the U.S. Congress and political institutions. Her research focuses on congressional leadership, institutional reform, and partisan communication, and has been published in the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Electoral Studies, and other outlets. She is an author of Congress Explained, a textbook on the U. S. Congress, and her book project, Echo Chambers, examines the role of congressional leadership in constituent communication. The National Science Foundation and the American Political Science Association have funded her research.
Dr. Gaynor worked in Congress for several years, first as a press secretary and speech writer for House and Senate leadership, and then as an APSA Public Service Fellow for the U.S. House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress. Before joining Batten, she was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She received her PhD in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland and received her bachelor’s degree in history and journalism from the University of Alabama, with honors.
The CEL is excited to have Dr. Gaynor on our team, and we look forward to supporting her research related to effective lawmaking.
