Sara Hagedorn is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. Her research focuses on Congressional policy making, campaigns and elections, and minority politics. Her teaching interests include classes on American government, US Congress, Campaigns and Elections, interest groups, and environmental policy. She also leads a study abroad course in Florence, Italy, which discusses gender and international politics.

A Montana native, she grew up on her parents’ cattle ranch and is a proud enrolled Northern Cheyenne. Before receiving her doctorate at CU-Boulder, Sara worked as a legislative advisor in the United States Senate in Washington, DC for seven years, helping to draft a Farm Bill and the 2005 Energy Bill. During that time, she also worked on a high-profile US Senate race as policy advisor. Sara continues to serve as an advisor to candidates and issue campaigns. Most recently, she served on the statewide executive committee of Amendments Y and Z, which changed the way Colorado will draw legislative districts.

Sara currently lives in Monument with her husband, two children, one old dog, two cats, two horses, and a lot of coffee. When she is not writing, grading papers, or advising students, she likes to garden, cook, ride her horses, go on adventures with her kids, and travel.

• "Thoughts on the 2020 Election” (in Elections in America 2022) | PDF
• The American Congress: A Reference Handbook (2019)
• “Congressional Staffing and Homeland Security Policy-making” (in Homeland Security, 2018)
• “Lack of civility is undermining our political culture” (Colorado Politics, January 16, 2018)