Isabel Krakoff
Isabel Krakoff Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at York University. She completed her M.A. in International Affairs with a concentration in Global Gender Policy in 2019 at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Before moving to Canada for her PhD, she spent five years in the DC area working as an international development practitioner where she advocated for incorporating a gender sensitive lens into evaluations of development programs. Her research now focuses on the clashes between the religious freedom and LGBTQ rights movements in the United States and how this dilemma of rights is part of the global rise of populism.
Publications
Van Matre, J. C., Krakoff, I. L., & Fullerton, A. H. (2025). A Natural Language Processing Approach to Identifying Partisan Framing of Climate Change Denialism, Fatalism, and Solutions in US Congressional Speeches. Policy Studies Journal.
Dawson, A. & Krakoff, I.L. (2024). Political trust and democracy: The critical citizens thesis re-examined. Democratization, 31(1), p.90-112.
Laxer, E. & Krakoff, I.L. (2023). Le populisme et l'état de droit: Illibéralisme libéral, majoritarisme et ressentiment juridique dans les débats français et québécois concernant les signes islamiques. In F.G. Dufour & E. Peker (Eds.), Le populisme et les sciences sociales: Perspectives québécoises, canadiennes et transatlantiques.Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.
Krakoff, I. (2022). Performativity in Politics: Understanding the Role of Affect in Political News Coverage. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Gender Research, 5(1), p.114-122. https://doi.org/10.34190/icgr.5.1.82.
Krakoff, I.L. (2021). Colourblind Coverage: Mainstream Media Erasure of Intersectionality in Large-Scale Cases of Anti-LGBTQ Violence. Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture, 6(2), pp.123-139. https://doi.org/10.1386/qsmpc_00049_1.
