Ph.D., Political Science
University of California, Los Angeles
Major Fields: American Politics
Political Methodology
Minor Field:  Race and Ethnic Politics

M.A., Political Science
University of California, Los Angeles
Major Field:  American Politics

Single Subject Teaching Credential
California State University, Bakersfield

B.A., Political Science
California State University, Bakersfield
Concentration in American Politics
McNair Scholar

B.A., English
California State University, Bakersfield

Spring 2016





Spring 2011


Winter 2007


Spring 2005




Spring 2005

2016-2017, Teaching Fellow of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
2015-2017, Adjunct Instructor of Political Science, Pepperdine University

BOOK PROJECT:
Neighborhoods That Matter:  How Place and People Affect Political Participation
Chapter Outline:
1    We All Live in Neighborhoods:  When and Why Place and People Matter
2    A Contextual Approach to Participation:  Introduction to Place and People Model
3    Coding Design:  Description of Methods and Sample Neighborhoods
4    Porches and People:  General Findings
5    A Rising Tide or a Helping Hand:  Who Benefits the Most from Neighborhood Design?
6    Now I See You, Now I Don’t:  How Design Hides or Highlights Co-Racial Neighbors
7    Conclusion:  Place, People and Participation in a Gentrifying World
New York University Press (April 2026)

ARTICLES:
Kapoor, Nicholas & Carrie LeVan.  2023. “Learning by Doing: The Power of Active Learning and Authentic Assessments in the Political Science Classroom.”  Political Science Educator. 27(1): 41-51.

LeVan, Carrie A. & Stacey A. Greene. 2021. “Undermining the party: anti-black attitudes, presidential vote choice, and split-ticket voting among white voters,” Politics, Groups, and Identity , DOI: 10.1080/21565503.2021.2008991 

LeVan, Carrie. 2020. “Neighborhoods that Matter:  How Place and People Affect Political Participation.”  American Politics Research.  48(2):  286-294.

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW:
LeVan, Carrie A. “Undoing the Paradox of Integration: Designing Neighborhoods to Mobilize Voters” 
Social Networks

LeVan, Carrie A. “Porches and People:  Effects of Neighborhood Design and Racial Composition on Voter Turnout” 
Journal of Urban Affairs

LeVan, Carrie A. & Stacey A. Greene. “Race is on the Table:  The Mobilizing Effects of Racial Attitudes for White Voters.”
Race and Social Problems

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION:
“Maine Poll Workers: Who are they, Why do they Serve, and What do they believe about US Election Integrity” (Article manuscript in preparation)
Co-Authors: Rob Glover (University of Maine, Orono) and Jordan LaBouff (University of Maine, Orono)

External Awards:
Public Agenda: Democracy Renewal Project—[Application Submitted]: $50,000
Co-PI’s: Rob Glover University of Maine, Orono and Jordan LaBouff University of Maine, Orono
(2024-2025)

Scholars Strategy Network: Election Protection and Enhancement Research Grant: $20,000
Co-PI’s: Rob Glover University of Maine, Orono and Jordan LaBouff University of Maine, Orono
(2023-2024)

Scholars Strategy Network: Election Protection and Enhancement Research Grant: $20,000
Co-PI’s: Rob Glover University of Maine, Orono and Jordan LaBouff University of Maine, Orono
(2022-2023)

Susan Clarke Young Scholar Award for Urban Politics, APSA 2019
Purpose:  Award to honor “up and coming” scholars early in their career and who specialize in the subfield of Urban and Local Politics.
(Fall 2019)

Internal Awards:
Summer Research Assistant Program, Colby College
Project: “Proper Use of Space:  How Gentrifiers Change the Way Neighborhoods Get Used (Data Science)”
(Summer of 2023)

Charles Bassett Teaching Award, Colby College
(Spring 2021)

Summer Research Assistant Program, Colby College
Project: “Neighborhoods and Neighbors in Communities of Color (Data Science)”
(Summer 2021)
Funding:  Three Research Assistants

Summer Research Assistant Program, Colby College
Project: “Why Not Here: Gentrification Eligible Neighborhoods that Didn't Flip (Data Science)” (Summer 2020)
Funding:  Two Research Assistants

Summer Research Assistant Program, Colby College
Project: “There Goes the Neighborhood:  Return of Suburban Whites to City Hoods,” (Summer 2019)
Funding:  Two Research Assistants

Montgoris Family Endowed Chair in Government, Colby College
(December 2018-Present)

Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA Graduate Division
(2015-16 School Year)

UCLA Department of Political Science Fellowship
(Summer 2015)

UCLA Department of Political Science Fellowship
(2014-15 School Year)

UCLA Department of Political Science Summer Fellowship
(Summer 2014)

Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship
(2011-12 School Year)

Graduate Summer Research Mentorship
(Summer 2009)

UCLA Department of Political Science Fellowship
(2008-2009 Academic Year)

Invited Talks:
Lunch and Learn: “Understanding Poll Workers, the Unsung Heroes of Our American Democracy,” Maine Conservation Voters. Link
(March 2023)
(March 2023)
(October 2021)
Spoke on a panel to discuss Maine’s historic first use of ranked-choice voting in a presidential general election.  This was a virtual event.
(November 2020)

American Political Science Association: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2011
Midwestern Political Science Association: 2012, 2013, 2015, 2018, 
New England Political Science Association: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

• Maine SSN Policy Fellow Mentor, 2023-2024
• Co-Chair, NEPSA, Race, Gender, and Intersectionality Section, 2022-Present
• Board Member, NEPSA, Fall 2020 – Spring 2023
• Founder, NEPSA, Race, Gender, and Intersectionality Section, Conference 2023
• Academic Conference Discussant: APSA 2019, 2016; MPSA 2018; NEPSA 2023, 2022, 2021
• Academic Conference Panel Chair: NEPSA 2023, 2022, 2021
• Academic Conference Round Table Discussant: NEPSA 2023
• Maine Chapter of Scholars Strategy Network, Participation and Civil Rights Advisory Group, Fall 2018 - Present

Field Experiment and Survey: “Maine Poll Worker Recruitment and Attitudes,” Co-PI (Rob Glover and Jordan LaBouff Co-PI’s)
(Fall 2023 – Present)

Machine Learning/Survey: Using Machine Learning to Measure Characteristics of the Built Environment and Merge w/ the CMPS 2020,” PI
(Summer 2021 – Present) 

Survey: “Maine Poll Workers: Pre- and Post-Election Surveys,” Co-PI (Rob Glover and Jordan LaBouff Co-PI’s)
(Fall 2022)

Survey: “Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) 2020,” Contributor
(2021)

Survey: “Colby Poll:  Resentment, Civility, and Horserace—2020 Election,” Co-Pi (Nick Jacobs and Dan Shea Co-PI’s) 
(Winter 2020 – Fall 2020)

Survey: “Maine Exit Poll: Evaluating Rank Choice Voting 2018,” Co-PI (Sandy Maisel Co-PI) 
(Fall 2018)

Survey: “Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) 2016,” Contributor
(Fall 2016)

Survey: “Characteristics of Place: Using Google Streetview to Code Characteristics of Built Environment”
(Summer 2014 – Summer 2015)

Field Experiment: “Low Propensity and Low Status Voters Response to Non-Partisan GOTV Personal Canvassing”
(Fall 2004)

Delano High School, Delano, California
High School English Teacher
(2005-2008)

(Fall 2023)
The Provost’s Ad-Hoc Committee on Affirmative Action:  goal is to generate interdisciplinary events that explore the history of AA, the contemporary policy practices and consequences of AA; and the potential ways that the Supreme Court’s impending decision may impact Colby College specifically, but higher education more broadly.
The Institute for Leadership in Democracy Discussion—Faculty Advising Committee: goal is to imagine what an institute for training future activists and politicians in pursuit of democracy in US would/could be.
(Spring 2023)
The Inequality Lab—Faculty Advising Committee: goal was to imagine what this new lab would/could be.
(Fall 2020)
Faculty Advisory Committee to the Goldfarb Center:  faculty on this committee help advise, plan, organize, and promote Goldfarb Center events.
(Fall 2020 – Spring 2021)
Government Tenure Track Search Committee—American Politics Position: I helped conduct the search of our new tenure track colleague, Nick Jacobs.
(Fall 2020)
Government 1-Year Visitor Search Committee—Political Theory Position: I helped conduct interviews and participated in the decision-making process.
(Spring 2021)
Computational Social Science:  AI/Machine Learning Donor Proposal Faculty Advising Committee
(Fall 2019 – Fall 2020)
Faculty Associate Director of Goldfarb Center, Colby College
(Summer 2019 – Summer 2020)
Goldfarb Center Student Subcommittee on Inequality, Advisor
Established a student subcommittee to help explore inequality at Colby College.  The purpose of the subcommittee is to organize student workshops that will help students better understand inequality and move towards ending it.  (Fall 2019 – Summer 2020)
Government Department Prize Committee
(Fall 2019)
Government Department 2-Year Visiting Faculty Search
(2018-2019 Academic Year)
Economics Department Tenure Track Search
Outside Department Committee Member
(2018-2019 Academic Year)
Education Department 2-Year Visiting Faculty Search
Outside Department Committee Member
(2017-2018 Academic Year)

Serving as President
(Summer 2021 – 2024)

George J. Mitchell Elementary School Assistant Principal Search Committee
Parent Representative
(Spring 2022)

Waterville Jr High Principal Search Committee
Parent Representative
(Spring 2021)

SPARC, Town Hall Meeting on Improving Education in Waterville
(January 2020)

Waterville Elementary Schools PTA 
Serving as Communications Director
(Summer 2019 – Summer 2021)

Waterville Elementary Schools PTA 
PTA voting member
(Fall 2018 – Present)

Cal Ripken Baseball Coach, Waterville Alfond Youth Center
(Spring 2019; Spring 2021; Spring 2022)