Assistant Professor of Political Science
Laura Uribe, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia’s Department of Political Science. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California San Diego (2026). She is a proud Florida Gator (summa-cum-laude, 2019), where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Her research focuses on Latine politics, with a particular interest in how intra-group status hierarchies shape political values, policy preferences, and voting behavior. She introduced the Within-Group Status Hierarchy framework, showing that Latines who view themselves as higher-status within the community are more likely to adopt politically distancing (often more conservative) positions. This mixed-methods work–combining in-depth interviews, survey data, and experiments–offers a new, intersectional lens for understanding variation in political attitudes among marginalized groups.
Dr. Uribe’s scholarship has appeared in venues such as PNAS Nexus, Politics, Groups, and Identities, the Journal of Race, Ethnicity & Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and Public Opinion Quarterly, and has been cited by the Associated Press. She has received support from the Russell Sage Foundation and the American Political Science Association. Her articles have earned the State Politics and Policy Quarterly Best Paper award (2024) and APSA Race, Ethnicity & Politics Best Paper award (2024). Prior to graduate school, she worked with ACLU-Florida on a statewide voting-rights case for formerly convicted felons, in an elections office, and also served as a management analyst for her hometown government.
She is a first-generation college student and looks forward to mentoring all students, especially those who come from backgrounds that are under-represented in higher education.
