Taylor Boas
Professor, Political Science (CAS)
- Education
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
M.A., University of California, Berkeley
A.B., Stanford University - Office
- 232 Bay State Rd., PLS 311B
- tboas@bu.edu
- Phone
- (617) 353-4214
Taylor Boas is a Professor in the Department of Political Science (CAS) at Boston University who specializes in comparative politics in Latin America. He is a faculty affiliate of the Hariri Institute of Computing and was an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow (2013-2016). Boas’ research focuses predominantly on campaigns, corruption, electoral accountability, and mass media, applying quantitative and qualitative methods. He has earned a reputation as one of the leading scholars on the politics of Brazil, with recent work examining the electoral activities of Latin America’s growing evangelical community. He has written two books, including 2016’s Presidential Campaigns in Latin America: Electoral Strategies and Success Contagion with a third currently under review, along with 10 book chapters and numerous journal articles, book reviews, and working papers examining elections in Central and South America.
- Fellows
- Past Fellows
- Fields
- Hariri Faculty Affiliate