Helen Webley-Brown

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Political Science at MIT with specializations in American Politics and Quantitative Methods. I am also an affiliate of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University. In 2022, I graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a BA in Political Science.

Although my research focuses on the US, I grew up in London, England. I moved across the pond for college via the US-UK Fulbright Commission’s wonderful Sutton Trust US Programme.

My current research agenda fits into two broad buckets:

  1. Socio-political effects of interacting with the criminal legal system.
  2. How emerging technologies change the way people experience and perceive the state.

At the intersection of this, I am interested in pre-trial electronic monitoring, and the role of tools like ShotSpotter and Flock in policing. I also have a nascent interest in how political violence targeted at elected officials impacts the representation of gender and racial minorities.

Helen Webley-Brown

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Political Science at MIT with specializations in American Politics and Quantitative Methods. I am also an affiliate of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University. In 2022, I graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a BA in Political Science.

Although my research focuses on the US, I grew up in London, England. I moved across the pond for college via the US-UK Fulbright Commission’s wonderful Sutton Trust US Programme.

My current research agenda fits into two broad buckets:

  1. Socio-political effects of interacting with the criminal legal system.
  2. How emerging technologies change the way people experience and perceive the state.

At the intersection of this, I am interested in pre-trial electronic monitoring, and the role of tools like ShotSpotter and Flock in policing. I also have a nascent interest in how political violence targeted at elected officials impacts the representation of gender and racial minorities.