Holly Ann Garnett, Ph.D.

holly-ann.garnett@rmc-cmr.ca

Royal Military College of Canada

Country: Canada (Ontario)

About Me:

Holly Ann Garnett is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. Her research examines how electoral integrity can be strengthened throughout the electoral cycle, including the role of election management bodies, electoral assistance, voter registration, convenience voting measures, election technologies, civic literacy and campaign finance. She is a co-convener of the Electoral Management Network, and contributes to Electoral Integrity Project. Holly Ann has been awarded SSHRC funding at the Master’s, Doctoral and Postdoctoral levels, and numerous other competitive grants and awards.  She was an Endeavour Research Fellow at The Australian National University (2017), a visiting fellow at the Åbo Akademi, Finland (2017), a visiting researcher at the University of Sydney (2014), and a Killam Fellow at Cornell University (2009).She completed her PhD in Political Science at McGill University (2017), where she was a student member of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship. She is also a proud alumna of Queen’s University (MA in Political Studies, 2011) and Nipissing University (BA (Hon) in History and Political Science, 2010).

Research Interests

Elections, Election Administration, and Voting Behavior

Canadian Politics

Comparative Political Institutions

Political Participation

Public Policy

Electoral Integrity

Election Management

Campaign Finance

Civic Literacy

Countries of Interest

Canada

United States