Research Interests
Political behavior, public opinion, American political economy, race and class politics, civil society, spatial politics, democratic theory, interpretive methods
Biography
Acadia Gilchrist is a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in American politics, with strong grounding in comparative politics and contemporary political theory. Her research broadly examines the intersections of spatial inequality, race and class politics, and democratic attitudes. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews, she explores how everyday institutional and economic contexts structure citizens’ understandings of democracy, governance, and political belonging.
Before coming to UW–Madison, she earned her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Ottawa, with a minor in Conflict Studies and Human Rights.