Grant Durow

I am a third-year PhD student in comparative politics with a regional focus on Western Europe. My research examines right-wing and party politics, particularly in France, with an emphasis on elites and the dynamics of party adaptation. I am also more broadly interested in historical institutionalist approaches and the politics of religion and nationalism. Methodologically, I take a primarily qualitative approach grounded in interviews, archival research, and comparative case studies, complemented by observational causal inference to develop mixed-method designs.

I hold a BA in Government, French, and Plan II Honors from the University of Texas at Austin where I have previously done research on Australian politics as Clark Scholar at the Edward A. Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies. I additionally wrote my undergraduate thesis on the mainstreaming of right-wing populist political rhetoric in France and Australia which won UT's William Jennings Bryan Prize for best undergraduate thesis in Government. I spent the 2022-2023 academic year as an English teaching assistant in Lille, France, and I was rewarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship from the US government to study German in Berlin during summer 2024.