Overview
Sarah Thompson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government. She studies traditional governance and gender, with a regional focus on South Asia and a country focus on Pakistan. She is methodologically interested in how field experiments can improve our understanding of women’s distinct forms of political engagement and of modern usages of non-state justice.
Sarah was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Social Scientists' Association and the Global Forum for Democracy and Development, based in Colombo, Sri Lanka (2024-25). She received her PhD in Political Science from Stanford University in 2024.
Publications
2025. Gulzar, Saad, Durgesh Pathak, Sarah Thompson, and Aliz Tóth. 2025. “Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India.” American Political Science Review 119(2): 812–831.
