Welcome! I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. I am on the academic job market for 2026-2027, 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 focuses 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 published in Public Opinion Quarterly, is forthcoming in The Journal of Politics, has been published in The New York Times, and has been supported by the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network (EGEN), the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior (EPOVB) Section of APSA, 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.