Santiago Alles is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Rice University. He specializes in comparative politics with an emphasis on Latin American politics. His research has been published in The Journal of Politics, Electoral Studies, América Latina Hoy, and Revista de Ciencia Política. He received his M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Salamanca (Spain) and his B.A. in Political Science from the Catholic University of Argentina.
Clara Araújo is a research professor in the Post-Graduate Program in Social Sciences at the University of Rio de Janeiro State - UERJ/BRAZIL, and has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. She is a research fellow at the National Research Council / CNPq and is coordinator of the Research Group on Contemporary Inequalities and Gender Relations/NUDERGUERJ. Her primary research areas and main interests are gender relations; citizenship and political participation; and gender, political representation, and power.
Tiffany D. Barnes is an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky. Her research focuses on women's representation, Latin American politics, and comparative political institutions. She was previously a research fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her published work appears in Comparative Political Studies, Gender & Politics, Election Law Journal, Conflict Management and Peace Science, and The Journal of Political Science. Her first book, Gendering Legislative Behavior: Institutional Constraints and Collaboration, was published in 2016 with Cambridge University Press.
Anna Calasanti is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Mexico. Her research interests include political ethnography (with fieldwork experience in disadvantaged communities), the politics of abortion access, and comparative gender politics. She received a B.A. in Political Science from Guilford College in 2010, and an M.A. in Public and International Affairs from George Mason University in 2013. Her work has been published in the Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy.
Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon is Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on political institutions, women's representation and public administration with a regional emphasis on Latin America. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Electoral Studies, Policy Studies Journal, and Publius: The Journal of Federalism, among others. With Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson she is the co-editor of Representation: The Case of Women (2014) published by Oxford University Press and co-author of Women in Presidential Cabinets: Power Players Or Abundant Tokens? (2016) also published with Oxford University Press.
Susan Franceschet is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary (Canada). Her research focuses on women's representation in legislatures and cabinets, gender quotas, and gender and the executive branch. She is the author of Women and Politics in Chile (2005) and co-editor of The Impact of Gender Quotas (2012, Oxford University Press) and Comparative Public Policy in Latin America (2012). Her research has appeared in Comparative Political Studies, Politics & Gender, Latin American Research Review, and Publius: The Journal of Federalism.
Kendall Funk is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University. Her research interests include gender and politics, local governments, decentralization, public policy, and public service provision. Kendall received her B.A. in political science from Texas A&M in 2012. She plans to complete her Ph.D. in 2016 and pursue a career in academic research.
Meredith P. Gleitz is a recent graduate from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Spanish. Her research interests include gender and politics, particularly in Latin America. While at Texas A&M, Meredith co-founded a committee dedicated to promoting gender equality on campus and was nominated for the Jameson Prize for most outstanding undergraduate research paper on women's issues. She hopes to pursue a career in academic research after serving in Peace Corps Ecuador from 2017-2019.
Magda Hinojosa is Associate Professor of Political Science in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. Her research examines the political participation of women in Latin America, and in particular, institutional barriers to descriptive representation. She is the author of Selecting Women, Electing Women: Political Representation and Candidate Selection in Latin America, which was published by Temple University Press. Her work has also appeared in Political Research Quarterly, Latin American Politics & Society, and Politics & Gender.
Mala Htun is Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Sex and the State: Abortion, Divorce, and the Family under Latin American Dictatorships and Democracies (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and Inclusion Not Representation: Gender Quotas and Ethnic Reservations in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Her work has appeared in American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, Latin American Research Review, and Politics & Gender, among other journals and edited volumes. She is a former fellow of the Kellogg Institute of the University of Notre Dame, the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard, and the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship in Japan, and she has served as a consultant to the World Bank, UN Women, Inter-American Development Bank, and the Inter-American Dialogue.
Niki Johnson is a lecturer and researcher in Political Science at the Universidad de la República, Uruguay. Her research centers on women's political representation, the feminist movement and the state in Uruguay and Latin America. She has had work published in América Latina Hoy, the Revista Uruguaya de Ciencia Política, Revista Política of the University of Chile and Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas. She has recently published a chapter on candidate selection and gender bias in Latin America in Nélida Archenti and María Inés Tula (eds), La representación imperfecta. Logros y desafíos de las mujeres políticas (Buenos Aires: Eudeba, 2014).
Mark P. Jones is the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies, Professor of Political Science, the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy's Fellow in Political Science, and the Faculty Director of the Master of Global Affairs Program at Rice University. His research focuses on the effect of electoral laws and other political institutions on governance, representation, and voting. His work has appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and The Journal of Politics as well as in edited volumes published by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Penn State University Press, among others. He also is a coauthor of Texas Politics Today, 2015-2016 Edition.
Santiago Lacouture is Economist and Professional in Government and Public Affairs from Universidad de los Andes. He currently works as a research assistant at the Center for Economic Development Studies (CEDE for its acronym in Spanish) of the Economics School at Universidad de los Andes. He is a graduate student of the Masters of Economics at Universidad de los Andes and has previously worked as a research assistant at the School of Government at Universidad de los Andes.
Jana Morgan is Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Latin American and Caribbean studies program at the University of Tennessee. Her research considers issues of inequality, exclusion, and representation in Latin America. She is the recipient of the Van Cott Outstanding Book award given by the Latin American Studies Association for her book Bankrupt Representation and Party System Collapse (Penn State, 2011). Her work has also been published in numerous journals including American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, Politics & Gender, Latin American Research Review, and Latin American Politics and Society. Her work has been supported by grants from the Fulbright-Hays program and the Russell Sage Foundation, among others.
Mónica Pachón is Dean of the Faculty of Political Science, Government and International Relations at the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia. She was previously an associate professor at the School of Government Alberto Lleras Camargo at Universidad de los Andes, in Bogotá, Colombia. She received her PhD at University of California, San Diego, and her research and publications have focused on executive-legislative relations in Latin American presidential systems and legislative organization, with great emphasis on the Colombian case.
Jennifer M. Piscopo is Assistant Professor of Politics at Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA. Her research on representation, gender quotas, and legislative institutions in Latin America has appeared in Politics & Gender, Comparative Political Studies, The Latin American Research Review, Parliamentary Affairs, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, and several edited volumes. With Susan Franceschet and Mona Lena Krook, she is editor of The Impact of Gender Quotas (Oxford University Press, 2012). She received her Ph.D. from the University of California in San Diego in 2011. A Gates Cambridge Scholar, she received her M.Phil. in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge in 2003.
Catherine Reyes-Housholder received her Ph.D. in Government at Cornell University in 2017. She is researching the use of presidential power by presidentas to promote pro-women change for her dissertation and has conducted dissertation fieldwork in Brazil and Chile thanks to a Fulbright-Hays fellowship. She is currently working on a book manuscript from her dissertation. She has published her work in Latin American Politics & Society, Politics, Groups, & Identities, and has several book chapters.
Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer is Professor of Political Science at Rice University. Her research focuses on women's representation, political institutions, and Latin America. She has published her work in the American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, Politics & Gender, Electoral Studies, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies and Legislative Studies Quarterly, among others. She also has published three books, two with Oxford University Press: Political Power and Women's Representation in Latin America (2010) and The Gendered Effects of Electoral Institutions: Political Engagement and Participation (2012 with Miki Caul Kittilson). The third book is Clarity of Responsibility, Accountability, and Corruption with Cambridge University Press (2016 with Margit Tavits).
Michelle Taylor-Robinson is Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. Her current research focuses on women's representation with a concentration on presidential cabinets in Latin America. She has published her work in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Electoral Studies, and Comparative Political Studies among others. She also has published three books, Do the Poor Count? Democratic Institutions and Accountability in a Context of Poverty (2010) with Pennsylvania State University Press, Negotiating Democracy: Transition from Authoritarian Rule (1996 with Gretchen Casper) with the University of Pittsburgh Press, and Women in Presidential Cabinets: Power Players Or Abundant Tokens? (2016 with Maria Escobar-Lemmon) with Oxford University Press. She also has an edited volume Representation: The Case of Women (2014 with Maria Escobar-Lemmon) with Oxford University Press.
Gwynn Thomas is Associate Professor of Global Gender Studies in the Department of Transnational Studies at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Her research focuses on gender and politics in Latin America, with a particular focus on Chile. Her first book, Contesting Legitimacy in Chile: Familial Ideals, Citizenship, and Political Struggle, 1970-1990 (Penn State Press 2011), examines the mobilization of familial beliefs in Chilean political conflicts. Her published work on gender and politics appears in The Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, The International Feminist Journal of Politics, the ISA Compendium Project, and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She received the Elsa Chaney Award in 2007 from the Gender and Feminist Studies section of the Latin American Studies Association.
Pär Zetterberg is Associate Professor of Political Science and researcher at the Department of Government at Uppsala University (Sweden). His research interests mainly include candidate recruitment and political representation in a comparative perspective, with a particular focus on electoral gender quotas. He has published his research in journals such as Political Research Quarterly, Parliamentary Affairs, International Political Science Review, and Politics & Gender.
