Mona Morgan-Collins obtained a PhD at the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. Prior to coming to King’s College London, she was an assistant professor at Durham University, post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, and the London School of Economics. She held visiting positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Oxford University and  Harvard.  Her primary research interests are at the intersection of comparative politics, political economy, history and politics and women in politics, with substantive focus on women’s suffrage. Her research on women's suffrage appeared in the American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, received funding from ESRC (£299,962) and BA/Leverhulme (£9,987) and APSA Best Paper award. She is currently working on a book project that examines women's political engagement at the time of suffrage in the US, Norway and Chile.

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Office hours

Wednesday: 13.00 - 14.00

Thursday: 11.00 - 12.00

NOTE: Term-time only. Appointments must be arranged in advance. Please e-mail me. 

Research interests

• Women in politics
• History and politics
• Suffrage politics

Projects

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant

ESRC New Investigator Award (2020-2023)

PhD supervision

Political Economy of Gender; Historical Political Economy

Latest publications

Morgan-Collins, Mona (2024). Mobilizing Women in Pakistan: The 2024 General Election. European Journal of Politics and Gender.

Campbell, Rosie, Minna Cowper-Coles, Alesha De-Freitas, Mona Morgan-Collins and Oyvind Skorge (2024). Gender and Politics Research as a Tool for Societal Change: Lessons from the United Kingdom. Politics & Gender.

Morgan-Collins, Mona. (2024). How Gap Measures Determine Results: The Case of Proportional Systems and the Gender Mobilization Gap. British Journal of Political Science.

Morgan-Collins, Mona (2023). Bringing in the Votes: Women’s turnout upon enfranchisement. American Political Science Review. 

Morgan-Collins, Mona & Natusch, Grace (2022). At the Intersection of Gender and Class: How Were Newly Enfranchised Women Voters Mobilized in Sweden? Comparative Political Studies

Morgan-Collins, Mona (2021). The Electoral Impact of Newly Enfranchised Groups: The Case of Women’s Suffrage in the United States. The Journal of Politics 83(1): 150-165.

Morgan-Collins, Mona & Meyer-Sahling, Jan-Hinrik (2020). Stepping out of the shadow of the past: how career attributes shape ministerial stability in post-communist democracies. East European Politics 37(2): 311-331.