Sorelle Wyckoff Gaynor

• Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Politics, University of Virginia

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Politics at the University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, and faculty affiliate at the Center for Effective Lawmaking.

Gaynor researches and teaches courses on the U.S. Congress, American politics, and political methodology. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Electoral Studies and more, and she is an author for the textbook Congress Explained. Her current book project explores the role of congressional leadership in public policy messaging.

Gaynor received her PhD in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland. In 2019-2021, she served as an APSA Public Service Fellow for the U.S. House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress. She has worked in the U. S. House and Senate as a press secretary and speechwriter, and received her bachelor's degree in History and Journalism from the University of Alabama, with honors.

• –present Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Politics, University of Virginia

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