Maggie PennProfessor | QTM & Political Science

Maggie Penn is a formal political theorist whose work focuses on social choice theory and political institutions. Her work has been published with Cambridge University Press and in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Mathematical & Computer Modeling, Political Analysis, Political Science Research & Methods, PS: Political Science and Politics, Public Choice, Social Choice & Welfare, The Good Society, and Complexity. Since the fall of 2015 she has been a Managing Editor of Social Choice & Welfare. She also co-edits the Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions book series at Cambridge University Press.

Prior to arriving at Emory University, she was Assistant Professor of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University (2003-2005), Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University (2005-2009), Associate Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis (2009-2015), and Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago (2015-2018).

• Ph.D., Social Science, California Institute of Technology, 2003
• B.A., Economics and Applied Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, 1999

• QTM 310: Data Justice