Anna Harvey is an American social scientist whose research is focused on criminal justice and judicial decisionmaking.

She chaired the university's Department of Politics from 2000 until 2004 and served as Interim Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science from 2015 until 2017.

Harvey's early work investigated social dynamics of electoral behavior that may generate positive returns to coordination in both partisanship and turnout.

She explored the empirical implications of social coordination effects in a series of articles[3][4][5] and in her first book, Votes without Leverage: Women in American Electoral Politics, 1920-1970.

[14] A project on racial disparities in criminal appeals found that intermediate appellate court judges in New York State serving on all-white panels were significantly less likely to rule in favor of Black defendants in their reappointment terms.