Ursula Hackett

Ursula Hackett is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she writes and teaches on American politics, federalism, religion, and education. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2020 she won the national Political Studies Association’s Sir Bernard Crick Prize for Outstanding Teaching and a Royal Holloway Excellence Teaching Award. Her Brilliant Essays website, YouTube channel and @Dr_Essays tweets help thousands of ambitious students to generate critical analysis, original thinking, and beautiful writing.

Her research has been published in journals such as Policy Studies Journal, Studies in American Political Development, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and Politics and Religion. She works on American Political Development, federalism, public policymaking, education, and religion and politics.

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