IBS Associations
Visiting Scholar, Program on International Development
Research Interests
Indigenous Law & Politics, Judicial Politics, Effects of Colonialism, Quantitative Text Analysis
Brief Biography
Hope Martinez is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Doctoral Program in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University. Her primary research focuses on U.S. Indigenous law and politics with a broad interest in judicial politics, quantitative text analysis, and the effects of colonialism. She is currently working on projects about state efforts to limit Native sovereignty including state use of the U.S. Supreme Court in Indigenous law cases, MMIW cases, and displaced Native identities. She hopes to provide knowledge to advocates of Indigenous protection and sovereignty to support their success against colonial efforts and the development of cultural restorative programs. As part of her dissertation, Hope will conduct fieldwork working alongside tribes in Colorado and the Pueblos of New Mexico.
Hope has also begun a secondary line of research investigating the effects of incarceration on the political beliefs of vulnerable communities published in Social Science Quarterly. Prior to arriving at GSU, she earned her BS from the University of South Florida-Saint Petersburg, her MS degree from the University of Central Florida, and MA degree from Georgia State University. After graduate school, Hope plans to pursue a career as a researcher and advocate for the liberation and protection of Indigenous and people of color living in colonial structures.
