Summary

The core of my research agenda focuses on representation and political power for Native American communities, exploring the conditions under which marginalized groups achieve their policy goals within different American political institutions. My research examines the role of tribal sovereignty in juxtaposition to the plenary power of the U.S. government, operationalized by policies that are of unique interest to tribal nations. Through this work, I employ a variety of methods including text-as-data, statistical methods, and qualitative analysis.

Political Science Publications

Blasingame, Elise, Christina L. Boyd, Roberto F. Carlos, and Joe Ornstein. 2023. “How the Trump Administration’s Quota Policy Transformed Immigration Judging.” American Political Science Review, 1-16.

-APSA Law and Courts Section Award Best Conference Paper, APSA 2023

-Evan Ringquist Award for Best Paper on Political Institutions, MPSA 2023

Blasingame, Elise. “Holding Office in Native America: The Policy Choices of Native Women Legislators” in Distinct Identities: Minority Women in US Politics, 2nd edition, ed. Nadia E. Brown & Sarah Allen Gershon. 2023. New York, NY: Routledge.

Blasingame, Elise, Eric Hansen and Richard Witmer. 2024. “Are Descriptive Representatives More Successful Passing Group-Relevant Legislation? The Case of Native American State Legislators.” forthcoming in Political Research Quarterly.

Boyd, Christina L., Roberto F. Carlos, Margaret H. Taylor, Matthew Baker, and Elise Blasingame. (2023). “Reviewing In Absentia Immigration Removal Orders in the Federal Circuit Courts” Political Research Quarterly, 76(4): 1674-1690.

Ornstein, Joseph, Elise N. Blasingame and Jake S. Truscott. 2024. "How to Train Your Stochastic Parrot: Deep Language Models for Political Texts." forthcoming in Political Science Research & Methods. [PDF] [R Package]

-Gosnell Prize for Best Political Methodology Paper Presented at a Conference, Society for Political Methodology 2022

Working Projects

“Examining the Influence of the Indian Reorganization Act on the Creation and Content of Tribal Constitutions” with Danielle Hiraldo and Christopher Carter (presented at APSA 2023)

“Reexamining Voting Behavior on Salient American Indian Legislation in the US Congress,” with Kirsten Carlson (working paper presented at MPSA 2022)

"Representation in US State Legislatures and Satisfaction with Democracy," with Neil S. Williams (working paper presented at ISA-South 2022)

Public Health

“Community-Engaged Approaches to Address the Ethical Concerns of Maternal Mental Health Disparities Research,” published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (2019), with Natalie Hernandez, Jemea Dorsey, Danette Glass, Erika Pope, Natasha Worthy, Jewell Gooding, Pamela Braxton, Mica Whitfield, and Yosha Dotson.

“Adapting the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Model of Police–Mental Health Collaboration in a Low-Income, Post-Conflict Country: Curriculum Development in Liberia, West Africa,” published in the American Journal of Public Health (2015), with Brandon A Kohrt, Michael T Compton, Samuel F Dakana, Benedict Dossen, Frank Lang, Patricia Strode, and Janice Cooper.

Media

“Why more Native Americans are on U.S. ballots than ever before” NPR Morning Edition (2024, November 3)

“How Native women in state legislatures are changing politics”, Good Authority (2023, November 30)

“What Mary Peltola’s win in Alaska may mean for Indian country”, Washington Post (2022, September 13)