Stephanie Ternullo is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology. She specializes in political and urban sociology, with a focus on how social contexts shape political outcomes. Her dissertation examines one piece of this relationship, asking: how does place shape Americans' partisanship? She answers this question through an interview- and ethnographic-based study of three Midwestern communities during the 2020 presidential cycle. Ternullo has received funding for this research from the National Science Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. In a second line of investigation into the relationship between social context and political behavior, she uses quasi-experimental methods to assess the effects of social policy and political inequality on political engagement, voting behavior, and constituents’ demands for public services. An article forthcoming from this research, on social welfare policy and voter turnout during the New Deal, will appear in the Journal of Politics.