Sydney Carr-Glenn

Biography

Dr. Sydney L. Carr-Glenn is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the College of the Holy Cross. Dr. Carr-Glenn received her PhD in Political Science and Public Policy from the University of Michigan (2023) and B.A. in political science from the University of Connecticut (2018). Dr. Carr-Glenn’s research has been funded by numerous prestigious fellowships including the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the APSA Minority Fellowship Program, the Center for American Women & Politics Research Grant, and the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research Hanes Walton Jr. Fellowship, among others. Her work has been published in and is forthcoming at highly-ranked peer-reviewed academic journals including the Journal of Politics, Journalism, The National Review of Black Politics, Communication Theory, and is currently under review at other outlets. 

Dr. Carr-Glenn’s primary research interests include American political behavior, race, ethnicity, and politics, gender and politics, and political communication. Her current book project, Public Opinion, News Media, and Black Women in Politics examines the ways in which Black women political elites are susceptible to intersectional-based disadvantages in the context(s) of American public opinion and the news media, relative to their colleagues who adhere to other race-gender groups. Furthermore, Public Opinion, News Media, and Black Women in Politics utilizes a novel multi-methodological approach in order to put the intersectionality framework to an empirical test for Black women in the political arena. Moreover, Dr. Carr-Glenn’s work broadly grapples with the unique experiences faced by Black women political elites, the factors that influence voter support for minority candidates, as well as news media coverage of minority political figures, among other topics. This work is critical at a time when the political arena continues to grow more diverse across racial and gender lines than ever before. Further, Dr. Carr-Glenn remains committed to centering the experiences of marginalized political leaders within her work, and particularly those with intersecting identities. 

Public Scholarship:

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2024/09/26/what-kamala-harris-intersectional-identity-could-mean-for-how-voters-evaluate-her-in-the-2024-election/

https://cawp.rutgers.edu/research/cawp-grants-and-awards/cawp-research-grants/research-briefs/public-opinion-toward-black-women-political-elites

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Carr, Sydney L. 2026. “Race, Gender, and Public Opinion Toward Black Female Political Elites.” (forthcoming at The Journal of Politics) 

Carr, Sydney L., and Stuart Soroka. 2025. “Depictions of Black Americans in U.S. Television News, 1990-2000.” (forthcoming at Journalism) 

Benjamin, Andrea, and Sydney L. Carr. 2022.“Does Incumbency Matter?: Black Voter Support for New POC Democratic Candidates in the 2018 Congressional HOR Elections.” National Review of Black Politics. : https://online.ucpress.edu/nrbp/article-abstract/3/1-2/2/163653/Does-Incumbency-Matter-Black-Voter-Support-for-Non

Hiaeshutter-Rice, Dan, Guadalupe Madrigal, Gavin Ploger, Sydney L. Carr, Mia Carbone, Ava Francesca Battocchio, and Stuart Soroka. 2024. “Identity Driven Information Ecosystems.” Communication Theory: qtae006.: https://academic.oup.com/ct/article/34/2/82/7634331?login=false

Hudgins, Kamri, Benson, Erykah, Sydney L. Carr, Jasmine Simington, Zoe Walker, Jessica Cruz, Vincent Hutchings, Earl Lewis, Mara Cecilia Ostfeld, and Alford Young Jr. 2024. “Crafting Democratic Futures: Understanding Political Conditions and Racialized Attitudes Toward Black Reparations.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 10(3): 49-67. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2024.10.3.03.: https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/10/3/49