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 Postdoctoral Fellow in Law and Politics 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 in election law, legislation and regulation, constitutional law, and civil procedure. His scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, Fordham Law Review, and George Washington Law Review, among others.