About

McKenzie Bennett is a fifth-year PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Her dissertation examines how Americans employ social capital to improve and enhance civil society. More specifically, she investigates the behavior of Americans who use different types of social capital and how these different forms of capital thus help cultivate advanced civil societies.

Bennett is a Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program scholar and a 2021 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.