Haley Stiles

PhD Candidate
Department of Politics
University of Virginia
zvc4ym[at]virginia.edu

Haley Stiles is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. Her work specializes in matters of democracy, partisanship, and the social dimensions of politics. She is a mixed-methods social scientist with quantitative and qualitative training, including large-n data analysis, original survey work, and field interviewing. Haley's research has appeared in Political Science Quarterly.

Her dissertation, “Democratic Satisfaction in America,” explores popular attitudes towards democracy. Centering the citizen’s perspective, this project examines how items on both systematic (elections, party politics) and personal levels (local communities, regime understandings) impact Americans’ interactions with democracy. Haley's research has been generously supported by the Clifford Roberts Graduate Fellowship from the Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College, the Dissertation Grant from the National Institute of Social Sciences, the Humane Studies Fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies, the Summer Centennial Center Research Grant from the American Political Science Association, the Summer Research Grant from the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.

Haley's collaborative work focuses on the US presidency, including executive involvement in social movements, military activity and administration, and the civil service.

Prior to UVA, Haley earned her BA in Political Science at Baylor University. As a student, she served as a research and teaching assistant, in addition to her administrative service as Student Ambassador to the Department of Politics. Haley spent a semester in Washington, DC as part of the Baylor in Washington Program, where she held an internship at the US Senate.