Jennifer McCoy

Jennifer McCoy is Regent’s Professor Emerita 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. She is formerly director of the Carter Center America’s Program (1998-2015). Jennifer was named a 2024-26 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for her project, “Mitigating Pernicious Polarization through Innovative Civic Educational Interventions.” Her forthcoming book is How to Depolarize: Remaking Global Democracies, with Murat Somer (Princeton University Press, 2027). Her most volume is Polarizing Polities: A Global Threat to Democracy, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, co-edited with M. Somer (2019). Jennifer is a Salzburg Global Fellow.