Joshua S. Sellers joined the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law in 2017.  He holds an Honors B.A. in Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies from the University of Michigan, along with a J.D. and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.  At Chicago, Professor Sellers served as an articles editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. 

Before joining the faculty, he was an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, and a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Law and Political Science at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.  Before entering teaching, he was a law clerk to Judge Rosemary Barkett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and a litigation associate at Jenner & Block LLP in Washington, DC.     

His principal areas of research and teaching are Election Law, Legislation and Regulation, Constitutional Law, and Civil Procedure, and he has published in the Florida State University Law Review, Louisiana Law Review, St. Louis University Public Law Review, and the Law and Politics Book Review.