Jennifer McCoy, PhD, is Regent's Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University and Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as well as Research Affiliate at CEU's Democracy Institute in Budapest. She was named a 2024 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for her project, "Mitigating Pernicious Polarization through Innovative Civic Educational Interventions." A specialist on democratic erosion and polarization globally, mediation and conflict prevention, election processes and election observation, and Latin American politics, Dr. McCoy has authored or edited six books and dozens of articles. Her current book project is Depolarizing Politics with Murat Somer, under contract with Princeton University Press. Her latest volume is Polarizing Polities: A Global Threat to Democracy, co-edited with Murat Somer (2019). She teaches courses on democratic erosion, comparative democratization, international norms, and Latin American politics. Previously she served as director of The Carter Center's Americas Program from 1998-2015.