Patricia Kirkland
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
Personal Details
Focus Areas: American Politics, Urban Politics, State and Local Politics, Budgeting, Fiscal Policy
Patricia Kirkland is an Assistant Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. Professor Kirkland studies American politics with a focus on urban, local, and state politics and public policy. Her primary research leverages original data with a combination of experimental and observational methods to explore representation, public finance, and fiscal health in American cities. Other work examines state budgeting and nonpartisan elections.
Professor Kirkland’s research has been published in Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, and Urban Affairs Review. Her work on urban and local politics has garnered the Kenneth A. Shepsle Prize from the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy and the Susan Clarke Young Scholars Award from the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.
Professor Kirkland graduated from Temple University in 2009 and earned her PhD in Political Science from Columbia University in 2017. Before joining the SIPA faculty, she was an Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University.
Education
- PhD in Political Science, Columbia University
Honors & Awards
- Kenneth A. Shepsle Prize (Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy)
- Susan Clarke Young Scholars Award (Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association)