Naomi Nubin-Sellers

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth College, where I evaluate the First Year Fellows program and support the Class of 1964 Policy Research Shop.  
My research interests focus on how state political and social institutions impact welfare policy outcomes across the U.S. My dissertation research specifically addressed how state politics shape policy experiences through welfare policy. This research examines the role of government responsibility in promoting equity within the complex social context of the U.S. Additionally, my dissertation research has won numerous awards, including the Sammy Younge Best Graduate Student Paper Award (2021 and 2025) and the Jo Ann Gibson Robinson award from the Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics (2024).
My broader research interests include inequality and redistribution, state politics, punitive poverty governance, and citizen-state interaction. For the past five years, I have participated in the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) program as a member of the instructional team for the Race, Ethnicity, and Quantitative Methods courses, first as a teaching assistant and currently as the instructor of record.