Welcome! I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. I am on the 2026-2027 academic job market, and I can be reached at colette.marcellin@vanderbilt.edu.

I study political behavior, public opinion, and social movements with a focus on gender, racial, and ethnic politics. My dissertation project centers on women’s political attitudes and behavior and examines how women across different partisan and racial groups respond to mobilization efforts from movements and organizations, using online and field experiments, surveys, causal inference methods, and qualitative methods.

My research is forthcoming in The Journal of Politics and has been published in Public Opinion Quarterly and The New York Times. My work has been supported by the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior (EPOVB) Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA), the Political Communication Section of APSA, the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network (EGEN), and Vanderbilt University. I was also an EPOVB Early-Career Fellow for 2025-2026.

Previously, I worked as a Research Analyst at the Urban Institute, a nonprofit policy research organization. I graduated with highest distinction (summa cum laude) from the University of Virginia with a BA in Political Philosophy, Policy, & Law; a BA in Economics; and a minor in Women, Gender, & Sexuality.