Jennifer McCoy, PhD, is Regent’s Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University in Atlanta and Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as well as Research Affiliate at CEU’s Democracy Institute in Budapest. Her areas of expertise include democratic resilience, erosion and recovery; and political polarization and depolarization. Dr McCoy was named a 2024 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for her project, “Mitigating Pernicious Polarization through Innovative Civic Educational Interventions.” Her current book project is Depolarize Politics and Remake Democracy with Murat Somer and her recent published volume is Polarizing Polities: A Global Threat to Democracy (2019).