Christina Kinane

Christina M. Kinane is an Assistant Professor of Political Science, a Resident Fellow in the Institution of Social and Policy Studies, and the Faculty Director of the Millstone Fellowship in Public Service at Yale University. Professor Kinane studies American political institutions and their role in policymaking under separation of powers, with a focus on the political control of the bureaucracy.  Her research investigates how presidents strategically use vacancies and acting appointees to promote their policy priorities and unilaterally govern, and has been published in the American Political Science Review and Presidential Studies Quarterly, among others.  Kinane received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, where her dissertation research received the 2021 E. E. Schattschneider Award for best dissertation in American government from the American Political Science Association and the 2020 George C. Edwards III Award for best dissertation on executive politics from APSA’s Presidents and Executive Politics Section. She also holds an M.P.A. in Public and Economic Policy from the London School of Economics and B.A.’s in Political Science and Economics from UCLA.