Hannah Paul

Dr. Hannah Paul is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Public Policy at the Truman School of Government and Public Affairs, University of Missouri. She will join the University of Denver's faculty in Fall 2025. Her research focuses on political integration of underrepresented groups, particularly immigrants and refugees, and the effects of women's political representation. Methodologically, she specializes in pooled time series analysis and machine learning applications in political science.

She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Colorado Boulder (2022). Her work bridges comparative politics with quantitative methods, emphasizing immigrant-origin political behavior and threshold dynamics in legislative contexts. Notable research includes studies on empathy and refugee attitudes, machine learning in legislative analysis, and HIV prevalence modeling in sub-Saharan Africa.

Key research areas include:

• Immigration and Refugee Politics
• Gender Representation Thresholds
• Pooled Time Series Methodology
• Public Opinion Dynamics

Her publications appear in journals like Political Science Research and Methods, Polity, and Social Science Quarterly. She has no listed advisees but actively contributes to methodological innovation in political science.