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Mallory E. SoRelle, Assistant Professor  

Office Location: 210 Sanford Building, Box 90245, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone: +1 919 613 9217
Duke Box: 90245
Email Address: mallory.sorelle@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.mallorysorelle.com/

Areas of Expertise

    Education:
    Ph.D., Cornell University, 2016
    M.A., Cornell University, 2014
    M.P.P., Harvard University, 2010
    B.A., Smith College, 2006

    Teaching (Spring 2024):

    • Pubpol 495s.02, Honors seminar Synopsis
      Sanford 150, F 03:20 PM-05:50 PM
    • Pubpol 902.01, Ethics of pubpol Synopsis
      Sanford 225, W 03:20 PM-05:50 PM

    Recent Publications   (More Publications)

    1. SoRelle, ME; Shanks, D. "The policy acknowledgement gap: Explaining (mis)perceptions of government social program use." Policy Studies Journal 52.1 (February, 2024): 47-71. [doi]  [abs]
    2. SoRelle, ME; Fullerton, AH. "The policy feedback effects of preemption." Policy Studies Journal (January, 2024). [doi]  [abs]
    3. Sorelle, ME. "Privatizing Financial Protection: Regulatory Feedback and the Politics of Financial Reform." American Political Science Review 117.3 (August, 2023): 985-1003. [doi]  [abs]
    4. SoRelle, ME; Laws, S. "The political benefits of student loan debt relief." Research and Politics 10.2 (April, 2023): 205316802311740-205316802311740. [doi]  [abs]
    5. Sorelle, ME; Laws, S. "Deservingness and the Politics of Student Debt Relief." Perspectives on Politics (January, 2023): 1-19. [doi]  [abs]

    Highlight:
    Mallory SoRelle is an Assistant Professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Her research and teaching explore how public policies are produced by, and critically how they reproduce, socioeconomic and political inequality in the United States. She focuses primarily on issues like consumer financial protection and access to civil justice that fundamentally shape the welfare of marginalized communities yet are often overlooked by scholars of the welfare state because they are not traditional redistributive programs.

    Mallory is the author of Democracy Declined: The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection (University of Chicago Press, 2020), which explores the political response—by policymakers, public interest groups, and ordinary Americans—to one of the most consequential economic policy issues in the United States: consumer credit and financial regulation.

    Mallory E. SoRelle