Hannah L. Radner

I am a fifth year PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Syracuse University. My dissertation explores how regionalist sentiment and state decentralization can impact how national political parties compete in national and regional elections. I am broadly interested in the study of party competition, democracy, multilevel politics, regionalism, nationalism, identity politics, voting behavior, European politics, and text as data.

With the generous support of the APSA DDRIG, I conducted field research in the UK for my dissertation in Spring 2026; I researched intra-party communication at the Fabian Society Archive in London, the Labour Party Archive in Manchester, and the Conservative Party Archive in Oxford. I also conducted participant observation by attending election hustings in Edinburgh and Cardiff and shadowing a canvassing session in the suburbs of Cardiff.

I am also a Graduate Research Associate on the Policy Agendas Project, the U.S. affiliate of the Comparative Agendas Project, at Syracuse University's Campbell Institute of Public Affairs.

I came to Syracuse by way of Washington, DC, where I worked for 6 years in diplomatic training at the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Service Institute. I hold a B.A. in International Affairs and an M.A. in Global Communication from The George Washington University. I named my cat Hera after my favorite character in Star Wars: Rebels, and I enjoy hanging out with her on the couch, knitting, and baking in my spare time.

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