The Truman School of Public Affairs is pleased to announce that Dr. Andrea Junqueira will join the faculty in Fall 2026. Dr. Junqueira is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government, Law & Policy at Arkansas State University and previously served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Texas A&M University, with prior graduate and undergraduate training at the University of São Paulo. Her research focuses on political representation, electoral institutions, comparative political behavior, and political economy, with particular attention to Latin America. Dr. Junqueira’s work has been published or is forthcoming in leading journals, including The Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, and Social Science Quarterly, and she is a co-author of a forthcoming book under contract with Cambridge University Press. She brings extensive teaching experience in comparative politics, political analysis, public opinion, and Latin American politics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
"I am thrilled to join the TSGPA faculty and to work alongside such an outstanding group of scholars. The school’s emphasis on fundamental questions of democracy and social policy, while engaging undergraduate and graduate students alike, creates an intellectual and teaching environment that I am excited to be a part of."