Professor
Auburn University College of Liberal Arts
Dr. Hale is a professor of Political Science at Auburn University, where she directs the Election Administration Initiative and Graduate Program in Election Administration. Dr. Hale, who holds a Ph.D. from Kent State University’s Department of Political Science, is highly skilled in election administration and policy design and analysis and is also an accomplished author on elections, intergovernmental relationship, and applied research. Hale teaches courses in election administration, qualitative methods, and intergovernmental relations, and her research examines how to improve capacity of government and nonprofit organizations to address public problems. Dr. Hale also directs Auburn’s partnership with the Election Center (National Association of Election Officials) to professionalize the public administration of elections through its national certification program. She has served on the advisory board of the MIT Election Data Science Lab, is the author or co-author of six books as well as three forthcoming books; four book chapters, dozens of refereed journal articles, more than 70 refereed conference presentations and 70 invited presentations, and has served as panel chair for more than a dozen conferences. She is the editor of the Science and Teaching Learning Section of the Journal of Political Science Education.
