Alexandra Reckendorf, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Chair of Virginia Commonwealth University's Department of Political Science.  She earned her doctorate from the University of South Carolina and her bachelor's degree from Susquehanna University (PA).

Her main areas of interest are public opinion, elections, political campaigns, political parties, media politics, social movements, and the politics of race, class, and gender. Her published work has appeared in the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review.

Dr. Reckendorf was named a 2019 Distinguished Teacher in Humanities & Sciences award winner, a 2022 member of the CHS Leaders for Inclusive Learning program cohort, a 2019-2020 service learning faculty fellow with the VCU Division of Community Engagement, and is a 2017 alumni of the Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute.

She is currently a co-PI on two grants related to innovative pedagogy: (1) Student Success in Political Science is a new course for first year, First Generation political science majors; it is funded by YouFirst@VCU's First Generation Student Success Research Grant.  (2) VCU Votes challenges students to mobilize young voters on and around campus while adopting a team-based, project-based experiential approach to learning; it is funded through a VCU CHS Re-engagement Grant.

She values providing unique experiential learning opportunities to her students — these have included teaching an intersession class trip to New Hampshire for the "First in the Nation" presidential primaries, teaching a summer class trip along the Civil Rights Trail, and advising the Ramerican Political Science Review, an undergraduate political science research journal.