Dr. Aaron Childree

Aaron Childree is assistant professor of political science. He studies American politics, with a focus on the presidency, interbranch relations, democratic backsliding, and the domestic politics of foreign affairs. His research has been published or is forthcoming in Presidential Studies Quarterly, Environmental Politics, PS: Political Science and Politics, The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and in the edited volumes Global Challenges to Democracy (Cambridge University Press) and Checking the Costs of War (University of Chicago Press). 

Aaron’s in-progress book manuscript, Waging War Against the Emergency: Presidential Power in Times of Economic Crisis, examines how and under what conditions economic emergencies shift power between the president and other political institutions. Additional research projects examine public opinion toward the use of military force, presidential climate policy, and changes to state-level election law. His work has been supported by the Cornell Center for the Social Sciences and Cornell University Graduate School. He has served as Kohut Fellow and Mitofsky Graduate Fellow for the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.

Before joining the faculty at the University of Richmond, Aaron received a Ph.D. in government from Cornell University. When he is not busy teaching or working on research, you might find him writing articles on politics, culture, music, and sports for Common Good Magazine and other outlets.