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Karen Beckwith-Flora Stone Mather Professor of
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Research Interests
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Mass Political Participation and Behavior, Political Parties and Elections (Western Europe and the United States), Comparative Political Movements, Electoral Systems and Representation, Women and Politics (Western Europe and the United States), and Research Methods. |
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karen.beckwith@case.edu
Mather House 223
Phone (216) 368-4129
Fax (216) 368-4681 Karen Beckwith received her B.A. from the University of Kentucky (1972) and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Syracuse University (1977, 1982). Teaching primarily in the areas of US politics, political movements, and women, gender, and politics, she has special interests in the United States and West Europe, particularly Britain and Italy.
Funded by a CWRU Presidential Initiative Grant for Interdisciplinary Studies, Professor Beckwith convened a research conference,
Toward a Comparative Politics of Gender: Advancing the Discipline along Interdisciplinary Boundaries, in October 2007. Conference participants included scholars from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The results of the conference will be published as a ten-article symposium in Perspectives in Politics, 8 (1), March 2010 (http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=PPS). Professor Beckwith's article, “Comparative Politics and the Logics of a Comparative Politics of Gender,” introduces the symposium.
Professor Beckwith's other recent publications include
Political Women and American Democracy, with co-editors Christina Wolbrecht and Lisa Baldez (Cambridge University Press, 2008); "Sheer Numbers: Critical Representation Thresholds and Women's Political Representation," with Kimberly Cowell-Meyers,
Perspectives on Politics, 5 (3), September 2007: 555-567; "Mapping Strategic Engagements of Women's Movements,"
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 9 (3), September 2007; and "Numbers and Newness: The Descriptive and Substantive Representation of Women,"
Canadian Journal of Political Science, 40 (1), March 2007: 27-49.
Professor Beckwith is the founding editor, with Lisa Baldez (Dartmouth College), of
Politics & Gender, the journal of the
Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association. She has also been co-editor of the
Gender and Politics Series of the Oxford University Press, and served as President of the American Political Science Association's Women and Politics Research Section. Author of numerous scholarly articles, she is the co-editor of
Women's Movements Facing the Reconfigured State (Cambridge, 2003) and author of
American Women and Political Participation (Greenwood Press, 1986).
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
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