Dr Constanza Sanhueza

Constanza is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics and Program Convenor of the Bachelor of Political Science at the School of Politics and International Relations (SPIR). She is also a Fellow at the Australian Center for Federalism at ANU and  Co-Chair of the Quantitative Methods Research Group at the Australian Political Studies Association.

Prior to joining ANU in 2022, she worked as Research Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, at the Varieties of Democracy Institute at the University of Gothenburg, and at Sciences Po Paris. Constanza was the recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Commission (2009-2012). She also held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, University of Montreal, the European University Institute, the University of Vienna, and the University of Oslo.

Constanza has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Mannheim. Her PhD thesis investigated the effects of immigration on voting, political parties and representation across European democracies. Constanza’s latest work has been published in Democratisation, Governance, Party Politics, and other journals.

Besides her focus on academic research, Constanza has done extensive work as a consultant and advisor for the European Commission, the European Parliament, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), among other international and national agencies. She is also very active engaging with media, giving interviews on current politics, and engaging with civil society organisations. 

PhD in Political Science, University of Mannheim. MPhil, MA

Comparative politics, Democracy, Elections, Political Representation, Parties, Voters, Surveys, Experiments, Text Analysis, European politics, Latin American Politics.