About
Gwyneth McClendon (PhD/MA, Princeton University) is associate professor in the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University. She is the author of two award-winning books, Envy in Politics (Princeton University Press, 2018) and From Pews to Politics: Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2019), coauthored with Rachel Beatty Riedl. McClendon has also published numerous scholarly articles on religion and politics, political participation, identity, and political psychology in academic journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, African Affairs, the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, and Comparative Political Studies.