Sue Thomas is Senior Research Scientist at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE) and Director of PIRE-Santa Cruz. Her research specialty is women and politics and, among her books, journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and book reviews are How Women Legislate and The Year of the Woman: Myths and Realities. She is also a co-author of an award-winning text on American government entitled Understanding American Government, now in its 14th edition. Prior to joining PIRE, Dr. Thomas served as Associate Professor of Government and Director of Women's Studies at Georgetown University, and her pre-academic career included serving as a legislative advocate in California on behalf of women's issues and as a Title IX specialist in the Los Angeles Unified School District. More recently, Dr. Thomas has also taught courses on women and politics at University of California, Santa Cruz and served as an Associate Editor and Book Editor of Politics & Gender.
Clyde Wilcox is professor of government at Georgetown University. He writes on religion and politics, gender politics, social movements and social issues, interest groups and campaign finance, and science fiction and politics. His latest book is Religion, Sexuality, and Politics in the U.S. and Canada (coedited with David Rayside), University of British Columbia Press, 2011.
Gail Baitinger is a third year Ph.D. student in political science at American University. Her research focuses on women and politics, political communication, and public opinion. Her dissertation will examine gender dynamics and agenda setting on the Sunday morning political shows.
Lisa García Bedolla is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley and Chair of Berkeley's Center for Latino Policy Research. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University and her B.A. in Latin American Studies and Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity, and Politics in Los Angeles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005) winner of the American Political Science Association's (APSA) Ralph Bunche Award and a best book award from APSA's Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section, and Latino Politics (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2009), winner of a best book award from APSA's Latino Caucus. She is co-author, with Melissa R. Michelson, of Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate through Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012). Her work has appeared in numerous academic journals and edited volumes. Professor García Bedolla's research focuses on how marginalization and inequality structure the political opportunities available to members of ethnoracial groups, with a particular emphasis on the intersections of race, class, and gender.
Chelsie Lynn Moore Bright is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Kansas studying the fields of American government and public policy. Her research focuses on policy analysis, with an emphasis on education policy.
Kathleen Dolan is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Her research focuses on public opinion, elections, and voting behavior. Dolan is the author of the book Voting for Women: How the Public Evaluates Women Candidates (Westview Press) and the forthcoming book Does Gender Matter in Elections (Oxford University Press). Her work has also appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals. She has served as co-editor of the journal Politics & Gender and is currently a member of the board of the American National Election Studies.
Richard L. Fox is Professor of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University. His research examines how gender affects voting behavior, state executive elections, congressional elections, and political ambition. He is the author of Gender Dynamics in Congressional Elections (1997, Sage) and co-author of It Still Takes A Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office (2010, Cambridge University Press) and Tabloid Justice: The Criminal Justice System in the Age of Media Frenzy (2001, Lynne Rienner). He is also co-editor of Gender and Elections (2010, Cambridge University Press) and iPolitics: Citizens, Elections, and Governing in the New Media Era (2012, Cambridge University Press). His work has appeared in academic journals including Political Psychology, Journal of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Social Problems, PS, and Politics & Gender. His op-ed articles have appeared in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Kim L. Fridkin received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She has contributed articles to the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics. She is the co-author (with Patrick J. Kenney) of The Changing Face of Representation: The Gender of U.S. Senators and Constituent Communications (forthcoming University of Michigan Press). No-Holds Barred: Negative Campaigning in U.S. Senate Campaigns (Prentice Hall, 2004), The Spectacle of U.S. Senate Campaigns (Princeton University Press, 1999, and the author of The Political Consequences of Being a Woman (Columbia University Press, 1996). Professor Fridkin's current research interests are negative campaigning, women and politics, and campaigns and elections.
Randall A. Gonzalez is preparing for his PhD qualifying exams at the School of Politics and Economics at Claremont Graduate University. He has co-authored other publications on political rhetoric and is also conducting researching on judicial behavior when popular sentiments run contrary to established law, which subsumes rulings on gender and racial classes of individuals.
Donald P. Haider-Markel is Professor of political science at the University of Kansas. His research and teaching is focused on the representation of interests in the policy process and the dynamics between public opinion and policy. He has authored or co-authored over 45 refereed articles, multiple book chapters, and several books in a range of issue areas, including the environment, religion and the culture wars, civil rights, criminal justice, and terrorism. He has been recipient or co-recipient of grants from the EPA STAR program, the National Science Foundation, and the American Psychological Foundation.
Rebekah Herrick is a professor of political science at Oklahoma State University. Her primary research interests concern issues of representation particularly as they relate gender and legislatures. Other areas of interest concern congressional careers and political ambition. She has published three books and her work has appeared in Journal of Politics, Social Science Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, American Politic Research, State Politics and Policy Quarterly as well as several other more specialized journals such as Women and Politics and The Journal of Homosexuality.
Patrick J. Kenney is the Dean of Social Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Associate Vice President, OKED, and the Director of the Institute for Social Science Research. Patrick Kenney came to ASU in 1986. He received his BA, MAPA, and PhD from the University of Iowa. Professor Kenney has authored and co-authored articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, and the Journal of Politics. He has co-authored three books with Kim Fridkin, The Spectacle of U.S. Senate Campaigns (Princeton Press, 1999), No-Holds Barred: Negativity in U.S. Senate Campaigns (Prentice Hall, 2004), and The Changing Face of Representation: The Gender of U.S. Senators and Constituent Communications (forthcoming University of Michigan Press). He has received funding from the National Science Foundation to support his research.
Sally J. Kenney is the Newcomb College Endowed Chair, the Executive Director of the Newcomb College Institute, and a Professor of Political Science at Tulane University. Prior to 2010, she served on the faculties of the University of Minnesota, the University of Iowa, and the University of Illinois. Her research interests include gender and judging, judicial selection, feminist social movements, women and electoral politics, the European Court of Justice, exclusionary employment policies, and pregnancy discrimination. Her latest book is Gender and Justice: Why Women in the Judiciary Really Matter (New York: Routledge, 2013). She has produced more than 25 case studies on women and public policy and is currently studying women state supreme court justices.
Rebecca J. Kreitzer is a doctoral student in political science at the University of Iowa. Her primary research interest is in the adoption of morality policy in the states, with an emphasis on state abortion policies.
Mona Lena Krook is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. Her research analyzes gender and politics in cross-national perspective. Her first book, Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide (Oxford University Press, 2009), received the American Political Science Association's 2010 Victoria Schuck Award for the Best Book on Women and Politics. In addition to authoring numerous articles, she is co-editor with Sarah Childs of Women, Gender, and Politics: A Reader (Oxford University Press, 2010); with Fiona Mackay of Gender, Politics, and Institutions: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism (Palgrave, 2011); and with Susan Franceschet and Jennifer M. Piscopo of The Impact of Gender Quotas (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Jennifer L. Lawless is Associate Professor of Government at American University, where she is also the Director of the Women & Politics Institute. Her research focuses on representation, political ambition, and gender in the electoral process. She is the author of Becoming a Candidate: Political Ambition and the Decision to Run for Office (2012, Cambridge University Press) and the co-author of It Still Takes A Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office (2010, Cambridge University Press). Her work has appeared in academic journals including the American Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Politics & Gender. She is a nationally recognized speaker on women and electoral politics, and her scholarly analysis and political commentary have been quoted in numerous newspapers, magazines, television news programs, and radio shows. In 2006, she sought the Democratic nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives in Rhode Island's second congressional district.
Regina Lawrence holds the Jesse H. Jones Centennial Chair in the School of Journalism. Her books include The Politics of Force: Media and the Construction of Police Brutality (University of California Press, 2000); When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina (University of Chicago Press, 2007, co-authored with W. Lance Bennett and Steven Livingston); and Hillary Clinton's Race for the White House: Gender Politics and the Media on the Campaign Trail (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009, co-authored with Melody Rose). Articles she has authored and co-authored have appeared in Journal of Communication, Political Communication, Political ResearchQuarterly, Journalism, and the International Journal of Press/Politics.
Timothy R. Lynch is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research interests include political behavior and the role of elections in creating accountability in the U.S. Senate.
Jeanette Morehouse Mendez is a professor of political science at Oklahoma State University. Her research areas focus on social networks and political information processing of media information. Her recent work includes studying gendered patterns in discussion networks, the effects of facial appearance on perceptions of maturity, competence and vote choice, and the effects of gender on representation when legislative seats change hands. Her work has been published in journals including Journal of Politics, Social Science Quarterly, Political Psychology, Politics and Gender, Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, PS: Political Science and Politics, Journal of Media Psychology, and Journal of Political Science.
Barbara Norrander is a professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. She and Clyde Wilcox have written about the geography of female state legislators in previous editions of this book. Besides an interest in female legislators, Professor Norrander writes about gender differences in public opinion, the influence of public opinion on state policies, and the presidential nomination process.
Pippa Norris is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Laureate Fellow and Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. She has also served as Director of the Democratic Governance Group at UNDP in New York. Her work compares democracy, elections and public opinion, political communications, and gender politics in many countries worldwide. A well-known public speaker and prolific author, she has published more than forty books. Her latest research at www.electoralintegrityproject.com
includes a forthcoming book, Why Electoral Integrity Matters, the first part of a trilogy for Cambridge University Press. In 2011 she was given the Johan Skytte Prize, the most prestigious award in political science.
Valerie R. O'Regan is an Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University, Fullerton. Her research and teaching focus on women and politics and comparative politics with an emphasis on Latin America and Western Europe. Her publications include the book Gender Matters: Female Policymakers' Influence in Industrialized Nations and several book chapters and articles in leading journals. She is also the Director of the California State University Intelligence Community Scholars Program at CSU Fullerton.
Valerie R. O'Regan is an Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University, Fullerton. Her research and teaching focus on women and politics and comparative politics with an emphasis on Latin America and Western Europe. Her publications include the book Gender Matters: Female Policymakers' Influence in Industrialized Nations and several book chapters and articles in leading journals. She is also the Director of the California State University Intelligence Community Scholars Program at CSU Fullerton.
Tracy Osborn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. Her research focuses on women and politics in U.S. state legislatures, Congress, and political behavior. Her recent book, How Women Represent Women: Political Parties, Gender, and Representation in the State Legislatures (Oxford University Press, 2012) examines how Democratic and Republican women represent women's issues under different legislative conditions. She has also published articles in Political Research Quarterly, American Politics Research, Politics & Gender, and other journals.
Melody Rose is chancellor of the Oregon University System. Her recent publications include Women & Executive Office: Pathways and Performance (ed.) and Hillary Clinton's Race for the White House: Gender Politics and the Media on the Campaign Trail (with Regina G. Lawrence). Rose is also professor of political science at Portland State University, where she founded and directed the Center for Women, Politics & Policy.
Ronnee Schreiber is Associate Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. Her research interests are in the area of women and American political institutions and women's public policy activism. An updated version of her book, Righting Feminism: Conservative Women and American Politics, was published with Oxford University Press in 2012. She has also published in Political Communication, Journal of Urban Affairs, Sex Roles, Politics and Gender and several edited volumes.
Jean Reith Schroedel is a professor in the School of Politics and Economics at the Claremont Graduate University. She has written numerous articles and several books. Her book, Is the Fetus a Person? A Comparison of Policies Across the Fifty States, was awarded the American Political Science Association's Victoria Schuck Prize in 2001. In 2009 Schroedel co-edited two books on the impact of evangelical Christianity on democracy in America for the Russell Sage Foundation. Over the past several years, she has been collaborating on projects exploring the use of charismatic rhetoric by presidential candidates and just had an article published in Presidential Studies Quarterly that examines the partisan differences in presidential candidates' use of such rhetoric.
Stephen J. Stambough is a Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Division of the Politics, Administration, and Justice at California State University, Fullerton. He is co-editor, with Dr. David Sanford McCuan, of Initiative Centered Politics (2005), a book about direct democracy. He has also published numerous articles related to congressional, presidential, and gubernatorial elections, most recently with a focus on gender politics. He is also the Founding Director of the Cal State DC Internship program.
Michele L. Swers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. She is the author of Women in the Club: Gender and Policy Making in the Senate (University of Chicago Press 2013) and The Difference Women Make: The Policy Impact of Women in Congress (University of Chicago Press 2002). She is co-author of Women and Politics: Paths to Power and Political Influence. 2nd Edition (with Julie Dolan and Melissa Deckman, Prentice Hall 2010). Her research on gender differences in legislative behavior has also been published in journals including, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Journal of Women, Politics, & Policy, Politics & Gender, and PS: Political Science as well as several edited volumes.
Katherine Tate is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Tate teaches in the fields of American government, African American politics, public opinion, and race, ethnicity, and urban politics. She is the author and coauthor of several books, including Concordance: Black Lawmaking in the U.S. Congress from Carter to Obama (University of Michigan Press, 2013).
Laura van Assendelft is a professor of political science at Mary Baldwin College. She teaches courses on U.S. politics, public policy, and women and politics. Her research interests include women and politics at the state and local level, focusing on the influence of gender on political ambition and leadership style.
Moana Vercoe is an adjunct lecturer at Loyola Marymount University. In addition to working with a number of community-based non-profit organizations addressing health and educational disparities, her research focuses on the roles of gender, race and history in perpetuating the cycle of violence.
Janelle Wong is a Professor of American Studies and the Director of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland. Wong is author of Democracy's Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions (2006, University of Michigan Press) and co-author of two books on Asian American politics. The most recent is Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and their Political Identities (2011, Russell Sage Foundation), based on the first nationally representative survey of Asian Americans' political attitudes and behavior. This groundbreaking study of Asian Americans was conducted in eight different languages with six different Asian national origin groups.
