Danielle Pullan

@dmpullan.bsky.social

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Assistant professor of political science researching abortion policy and gender representation | she/her 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🇮🇹 | Alum of MPIfG, U Cologne, American U

Selfie in a bathroom mirror wearing black pants with pink and blue flowers, a light blue top, and a black blazer with rhinestones

Plot of US job applications by type of job, showing tenure track, temporary faculty, postdoc, non-TT, and administrative jobs applied to from August 2024 - April 2025

Finally with all of the t's crossed and i's dotted, I'm delighted to share more about my new job! But I also want to put this success in the context of the overall process that it took to get here. It's hard to get a job these days in many fields, but the field I know best is academia. It was a complicated choice to leave Europe for the next step, but a huge part of that choice was the knowledge that there are just so few long-term jobs available in academia. I made the bet that in the US, I could play the numbers game long enough that eventually, I would find a job that was a good fit. You only need one, after all, but with more application possibilities, I staked my hopes on the US instead of Europe.

Screenshot from the link included in this post detailing the presentations in this panel

Danielle with her PhD committee members

Screenshot of the first slide of a presentation titled “Religious Governance of Abortion”

Abstract for the paper titled "Blending in or standing out? Gendered political communication in 24 democracies" that can be read at the link in this post