Nicholas Goedert

Nicholas Goedert is an associate professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech with expertise focused on legislative elections and American politics. He is the author of Ground War: Courts, Commissions, and the Fight over Partisan Gerrymanders, published by Oxford University in 2022. His research has been published in journals including the American Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, and the Election Law Journal. He served as an expert witness in the Wisconsin redistricting case Whitford v. Gill (adjudicated by the U.S. Supreme Court during summer 2018), and also serves on the Executive Board of the voting rights advocacy group UpVote Virginia. He holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.