Holly Ann Garnett

Holly Ann Garnett

Associate Professor

Political Science/Studies (Cross-Appointed)

Royal Military College and Queen's University

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Holly Ann Garnett is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. She is cross-appointed at the Department of Political Studies and School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University (Kingston), and an Honourary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia (UK).

Her research examines how electoral integrity can be strengthened throughout the electoral cycle, including the role of election management, registration and voting, cyber-security and election technologies, civic literacy, and campaign finance. Her most recent work published on these topics include (MQUP, 2022; edited with Michael Pal) and (Routledge, 2020; edited with Toby S. James).

Dr. Garnett is a co-director of the , a global project of academics and practitioners that examines the quality of elections around the world. She is also co-investigator with the (HC2P); co-investigator with the (C-Dem); fellow with the Queen’s Institute for Intergovernmental Relations (IIGR); and collaborator with the ’s work on campaign finance in Canada.

She holds a PhD in Political Science from McGill University (2017), a Master of Arts from Queen’s University (2011), and a Bachelor of Arts from Nipissing University (2010). She was an at The Australian National University (2017), a visiting fellow at the Ã…bo Akademi, Finland (2017), a visiting researcher at the University of Sydney (2014), and a at Cornell University (2009).

For more information see her .

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