Caitlin Andrews-Lee is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She earned her Ph.D. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining UNC, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Tulane University’s Center for Inter-American Policy and Research and an Assistant Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Caitlin’s research and teaching interests are in comparative politics and political behavior, with an emphasis on charismatic leadership and followership in Latin America. She is the author of The Emergence and Revival of Charismatic Movements: Argentine Peronism and Venezuelan Chavismo (Cambridge University Press, 2021), which won the Leon Epstein Award (APSA) and the Social Sciences Award (LASA). Her research has also been published in journals including Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Democratization, Political Research Quarterly, and Journal of Politics in Latin America, among others.

Caitlin’s current project investigates the gendered nature of charismatic authority and explores under what conditions women can defy expectations and establish legitimacy as charismatic leaders.