Stephanie Holmsten

Assistant Professor of Instruction, International Relations and Global Studies

Stephanie Holmsten is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in International Relations and Global Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on the election of women, ethnic minorities and minority women around the world, and most recently appeared in Comparative Political Studies. She is also interested in innovative teaching methods, particularly team-based learning, which earned her the Harry Ransom Award for Teaching Excellence. She is a Distinguished Scholar in the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and is currently a Provost Teaching Fellow working with UT’s Global Classroom initiative.

At the Strauss Center, she co-leads instruction of the Brumley NextGen Undergraduate Scholars program, teaching a course in policymaking every fall semester with colleague Michael Mosser and providing mentorship to this select group of outstanding undergraduates.