Stefanie Kunze is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. She earned a master of arts degree in political science at Northern Arizona in 2007 and a Ph.D. in political science in 2017. (See more about Kunze on the university’s website.)

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