Shana Scogin

Shana Scogin is a postdoctoral fellow at Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania. She researches themes of governance, public goods, and environmental politics. Her book project, Rebuilding the Foundations: Local governance and active citizenship in post-earthquake Nepal, uses the case of urban Nepal after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake to argue that local processes of post-disaster reconstruction are affected by variation in their local governance structures, which can influence the trajectories of development and residents' relationships with the state. She also has worked on topics of reserved seats, migration, gender, and democracy. Her research has been published in Global Environmental Politics and Disasters, and she has led two collaborations to create publicly available R statistical packages on Bayesian postestimation and model comparison.

Shana received a PhD in political science from the University of Notre Dame, an MA from Marquette University in political science, and a BA in political science and biology from Kenyon College.