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Brief Biography

Holly Ann Garnett is the Class of 1965 Professor of Leadership and a Professor in the Department of Political Science and Economics at the Royal Military College of Canada. She is cross-appointed faculty at the School of Policy Studies and Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University and an Honourary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Garnett is co-director of the, a global network of academics and practitioners that engages in empirical research, publicly-accessible data collection, and stakeholder engagement on issues relating to election quality around the world. She was the 2024-2025 Fulbright Research Chair in Canada-US Relations at Johns Hopkins University SAIS and recipient of the 2023 of the Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research at the Royal Military College of Canada.

Research Statement

Garnett’s research examines how electoral integrity can be strengthened throughout the electoral cycle, including the role of election management, registration and voting, cyber-security and election technologies, civic literacy, and campaign finance.

Selected Publications

Toby S. James and Holly Ann Garnett. (Forthcoming). What is Electoral Integrity? Reconceptualising Election Quality in an Age of Uncertainty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Holly Ann Garnett. (Forthcoming). Who Gives? Who Gets? Who Wins? Campaign Finance in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 

Holly Ann Garnett and Toby S. James Eds. 2025. The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Integrity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Holly Ann Garnett and Michael Pal Eds. 2022. Cyber-Threats to Canadian Democracy. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. – Listed in The Hill Times Top 100 books of 2022. 

Toby S. James and Holly Ann Garnett Eds. 2020. Building Inclusive Elections. New York: Routledge Press.

Holly Ann Garnett and Margarita Zavadskaya Eds. 2017. Electoral Integrity and Political Regimes: Actors, Strategies and Consequences. New York: Routledge Press.