Representation

Electoral Systems

Redistricting

Gerrymandering

Money

Legislatures

Elections

Education

• Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2016
• B.A., Loyola University Chicago, 2011
• A.A., J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, 2008

Research Interests

• Representation and electoral systems
• Redistricting and gerrymandering 
• Money in politics
• Legislative politics 
• Elections

Select Publications

• Keena, Alex, w/Michael Latner, Anthony J. McGann, and Charles Anthony Smith. 2021. Gerrymandering the States: Partisanship, Race, and the Transformation of American Federalism. Cambridge University Press.
• Anthony J. McGann, Charles Anthony Smith, Michael Latner, and Alex Keena. 2016. Gerrymandering in America: The House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Popular Sovereignty. Cambridge University Press.
• Keena, Alex, and Amanda Wintersieck. 2022. The Fundraising Effects of Facebook Marketing During the 2020 Election. Journal of Marketing Development & Competitiveness 16(4).
• Keena, Alex. 2019. Who Needs the Wealthy? The Effects of Size Scaling on Money in Senate Elections. Congress & the Presidency 46(2): 235-252.
• Keena, Alex and Misty Knight-Finley. 2019. Are Small Donors Polarizing? A Longitudinal Study of the Senate. Election Law Journal 18(2): 132-144.

Courses

• POLI 320 - Research Methods in Political Science
• POLI 324 - The Science of Elections
• POLI 306 - Congress
• POLI 103 - U.S. Politics and Government
• POLI 490 - Senior Seminar in Political Science

Links

• Why Gerrymandering has Gotten Worse, CBS Sunday Morning, 11/13/2022
• How Voter Suppression Hurts White People, CNN, 9/25/2021