Prior to Barnard, Professor Krimmel received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2013, was a National Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs from 2012-2013 and an Assistant Professor of political science at Boston University from 2013-2016. Her research and teaching interests include public opinion, political parties and their relationship to interest groups, fiscal politics, and the politics of race and gender. Her current book project examines the organizational foundation of contemporary party polarization.