Katie Scofield

Katie Scofield graduated with a PhD in political science from Indiana University in 2017 with a focus in comparative politics and political theory. Her dissertation, Indigenous Rights and Constitutional Change in Ecuador, examines indigenous social movements’ struggles to amend the country’s constitution in 2008 and asks what implications the Ecuadorian case has for the constitutional design literature. As part of her dissertation research, she spent eight months in Ecuador on a Fulbright grant interviewing participants in Ecuador’s constitutional convention. Since graduating, she has focused on translating her research on comparative constitutional law for a more general audience. She has published numerous op-eds, based on her graduate research and is currently working on a book proposal for Renovating the Constitution: How to Fix American Democracy with Lessons from Around the World.

Prior to joining the TAMUSA faculty, Katie taught American and Texas government for seven years at Blinn College. She also serves as a court appointed special advocate for children with open CPS cases in the Bryan/College Station area.