I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at George Washington University. I study American Politics with a focus in Political Behavior and Race and Ethnic Politics.
My book, "We Choose You: How Black Voters Decide Which Candidates to Support," (forthcoming in February 2025 at Cambridge University Press) investigates the sophisticated process of Black voter candidate selection. Contrary to the common assumption that Black voters will support Black politicians, Wamble explores what considerations, outside of race, partisanship, and gender, Black voters use to choose certain representatives over others. The book complicates our view of candidate selection, expands our understanding of identity's role in the representative-constituent paradigm, and provides a framework through which scholars can determine a candidates preferability for other identity groups. Wamble uses original experimental tests on Black respondents to prove that Black voters prefer a politician, regardless of race, who shows a commitment to prioritizing the racial group's interest through personal sacrifice.
My published work can be found the Journal of Politics, PS: Political Science & Politics, Politics, Groups, and Identities. You can download my CV here, or visit the research page for drafts of working papers currently under review.
I received the 2022 Distinguished Junior Scholar Award in Political Psychology as well as the 2019 American Political Science Association's Best Dissertation Award in Race & Ethnic Politics. I also received the National Science Foundation's Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.