Dr. Holly Ann Garnett

Dr. Holly Ann Garnett

Holly Ann Garnett is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston. She is cross-appointed faculty at Queen’s University (Canada) and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia (UK)

She is co-director of the Electoral Integrity Project, an independent academic research project that focusses on the democratic quality of elections around the globe and how they can be improved. She directs the Elections and Democracy Lab – Laboratoire sur les Élections et la Démocratie (LED) at RMC/Queen’s. She is also an affiliated researcher with the Consortium on Electoral Democracy/Consortium de la démocratie électorale (C-Dem) and the SERENE-RISC Smart Cybersecurity Network.

Dr. Garnett’s research examines how electoral integrity can be strengthened throughout the electoral cycle, including election technology and cyber-security, civic literacy, dis-information, electoral management, registration and voting procedures, and campaign finance. She has published two co-edited volumes and three special issues of peer-reviewed journals on electoral integrity issues, and articles in journals including the International Political Science Review, Democratization, JEPOP, and the Canadian Journal of Political Science. Her work is currently funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant (on campaign finance in Canada) and SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (on electoral integrity, with frequent collaborator Toby S. James and practitioner partners).

Dr. Garnett completed her PhD in Political Science at McGill University (2017), where she was a student member of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship. She is also a proud alumna of Queen’s University (MA in Political Studies, 2011) and Nipissing University (BA (Hon) in History and Political Science, 2010). She was an Endeavour Research Fellow at The Australian National University (2017), a visiting fellow at the Åbo Akademi, Finland (2017), a visiting researcher at the University of Sydney (2014), and a Killam Fellow at Cornell University (2009).