Joseph Coll

Dr. Joseph A. Coll is Assistant Professor of Political Science. Dr. Coll’s research and teaching interests include the factors that influence access to and administration of elections, how access and administration affect political behavior and public opinion, and how this then goes on to affect public policy. His work focuses on the general American public, as well as racial, ethnic, and youth groups.

Dr. Coll has authored numerous articles, edited volume chapters, a textbook chapter, and he has a co-edited volume on how COVID-19 affected the 2020 election set to be released in February 2024. His works have appeared in American Politics Research; Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy; Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics; and Politics, Groups, and Identities, among others. Dr. Coll’s current work examines whether changes to election access and administration affect beliefs in voter fraud and election legitimacy, the extent to which racial resentment undergirds support for restrictive voter qualifications, and if changing election access affects subsequent public policy.

• PSCI 11000- Introduction to US National Politics
• PSCI 20800- Racial and Ethnicity in American Politics
• PSCI 20722- State and Local Politics
• PSCI 21900- Public Opinion and Survey Design

Below are select publications. See this link for a full listing of Dr. Coll’s works.

• Co-editor (w. Joseph Anthony) of “Lessons Learned from the 2020 Presidential Election: Hindsight is 2020”, forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan.
• Coll, Joseph A. Voter Identification Requirements, Collective Descriptive Representation, and Black and Latino Voter Turnout. Politics, Groups, and Identities (Not yet in print). https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2022.2158889
• Coll, Joseph A. Proper Protective (Voting) Equipment: How Covid-19 Safety Measures Shaped In-Person Voting Experiences During the 2020 Election. American Politics Research 50, no. 6 (2022): 798-810. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X221112396
• Coll, Joseph A. “The Determinants of Local Election Resource Distribution Nationwide” Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy 21, no. 3 (2022): 187-199 https://doi.org/10.1089/elj.2021.0035
• Coll, Joseph A. and Courtney L. Juelich. “Expansive and Restrictive Electoral Environments and Their Differential Effects on Young Racial and Ethnic Voting Behavior” Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 7 (2022): 544-547. https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2022.5