EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Political Science, Syracuse University,
May, 1982. Examination Fields: U.S. Politics (with
honors), Comparative Politics.
Dissertation: Patterns of Mass Political
Participation among American Women, 1952-1976.
M.A. Political Science, Syracuse University, 1977.
B.A. Political Science, Honors Program, University
of Kentucky, 1972.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
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)
PUBLICATIONS
Lead Founding Editor, Politics & Gender,
Cambridge University Press, 2004-2007.
Editor, Gender and Politics Series, Oxford
University Press, since 1995.
Books
Political Women and American Democracy,
eds. Christina Wolbrecht, Karen Beckwith and Lisa
Baldez, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2008.
Women's Movements Facing the Reconfigured State
(co-edited with Lee Ann Banaszak and Dieter Rucht).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
American Women and Political Participation: The
Impacts of Work, Generation and Feminism (Westport,
Conn.: The Greenwood Press, 1986).
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
“Comparative Politics and the Logics of a
Comparative Politics of Gender,” forthcoming,
Perspectives on Politics.
"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: 312-339.
"Numbers and Newness: The Descriptive and
Substantive Representation of Women," Canadian
Journal of Political Science, 40 (1), March
2007: 27-49.
"The Comparative Politics of Women's Movements:
Teaching Comparatively, Learning Democracy,"
Perspectives on Politics, 3 (3), September 2005:
583-596.
"A Common Language of Gender?," Politics & Gender
I (1), March 2005: 128-137.
"Women, Gender, and Nonviolence in Political
Movements," PS: Political Science and Politics,
35 (1), March 2002: 71-82.
"Gender Frames and Collective Action: Configurations
of Masculinity in the Pittston Coal Strike,"
Politics & Society, 29 (2), June 2001: 297-330.
"Women's Movements at Century's End: Excavation and
Advance in Political Science." Annual Review of
Political Science, 4 (2001): 371-90.
"Hinges in Collective Action: Strategic
Innovation in the Pittston Coal Strike," Mobilization, 5
(2), October 2000: 179-199.
"Beyond Compare? Women's Movements in Comparative
Perspective," European Journal of Political
Research, 37 (4), June 2000: 431-468.
"Collective Identities of Class and Gender:
Working-Class Women in the Pittston Coal Strike,"
Political Psychology, 19 (1), 1998: 147-167.
"Lancashire Women Against Pit Closures: Women's
Standing in a Men's Movement," Signs, 21 (4)
Summer 1996: 1034-1068.
"Comparative Research and Electoral Systems: Lessons
from France and Italy," Women & Politics, XII
(2), 1992.
"Candidature femminili e sistemi elettorali [Female
Candidates and Electoral Systems]," Rivista
italiana di scienza politica, XX (1), April
1990, pp. 73-103.
"Sneaking Women into Office: Alternative Access to
Parliament in France and Italy," Women & Politics,
9 (3), 1989, pp. 1-15.
"Feminism and Leftist Politics in Italy: The Case of
UDI-PCI Relations," in West European Politics, VIII
(4), October 1985, and in Sylvia Bashevkin, ed.,
Women and Politics in Western Europe (London:
Frank Cass, 1985), pp. 19-37.
"The Cross-Cultural Study of Women and Politics:
Methodological Problems," Women and Politics,
I (2), Summer, 1980.
BOOK CHAPTERS
"Between Participation and Representation: Political
Women and Democracy in the United States," in
Christina Wolbrecht, Karen Beckwith, and Lisa Baldez,
eds.,
Political Women and American Democracy:
Critical Perspectives on Women and Politics Research,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
"The Gendering Ways of States: Women's
Representation and State Transformations in France,
Great Britain and the United States," in Lee Ann Banaszak, Karen Beckwith and Dieter Rucht, eds.
Women's Movements Facing the Reconfigured State.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp.
169-202.
"When Power Relocates: Interactive Changes in
Women's Movements and States" (with Lee Ann Banaszak
and Dieter Rucht), in Lee Ann Banaszak, Karen
Beckwith and Dieter Rucht, eds.
Women's Movements
Facing the Reconfigured State. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 1-29.
"Movement in Context: Women and Miners' Campaigns in
Britain," in Ricca Edmondson, ed.,
The Political
Context of Collective Action. London: Routledge
Press, 1997, pp.15-32.
"Response to Feminism in the Italian Parliament:
Divorce, Abortion, and Sexual Violence Legislation,"
in Mary Fainsod Katzenstein and Carol McClurg
Mueller, eds.,
The Women's Movements of Western
Europe and the United States: Consciousness,
Political Opportunity and Public Policy
(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987). Pp.
153-171.
"Women in Italian Parliamentary Politics,
1946-1979," in Howard R. Penniman, ed.,
Italy at
the Polls: The National Elections of 1979
(Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute,
1981).
ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS
“Why Do Men Dominate Politics?” Symposium on Big,
Unanswered Questions in Comparative Politics,
APSA-CP
Newsletter, 19 (1), Winter 2008: 15-16.
"Review of Anna Bull, Hanna Diamond, and Rosalind
Marsh, eds.,
Feminisms and Women's Movements in
Contemporary Europe," International Feminist Journal
of Politics, 5 (2), 2003: 313-315.
"Review of Linda Connolly,
The Irish Women's
Movement: From Revolution to Devolution.
Palgrave Press,"
American Journal of Sociology, 108
(2), September 2002: 514-516.
"Review of Christine Kelly,
Tangled Up in Red,
White and Blue: New Social Movements in America,"
American Political Science Review, 96 (2), June
2002: 423-424.
"Review Essay: Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink,
Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in
International Politics and Cathy J. Cohen,
Kathleen B. Jones, and Joan C. Tronto, eds.,
Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader,"
Signs, 26 (2), Winter 2001.
"Review of Lawrence LeDuc, Richard G. Niemi, and
Pippa Norris, eds.,
Comparing Democracies:
Elections and Voting in Global Perspective;
Warren E. Miller and J. Merrill Shanks,
The New
American Voter; and Stephen White, Richard Rose,
and Ian McAllister,
How Russia Votes,"
Journal of Politics, 60 (3), August 1998, pp.
893-897.
"Review of Donatella della Porta,
Social Movements,
Political Violence, and the State,"
Italian Politics and Society, 47, Spring 1997.
"Review of Sasha Roseneil,
Disarming Patriarchy:
Feminism and Political Action at Greenham,"
Mobilization, II (1), March 1997.
"Review of Barbara J. Nelson and Najma Chowdhury,
eds.,
Women and Politics Worldwide,"
Journal of Politics, 58 (1), February 1996.
"Review of David Kertzer,
Sacrificed for Honor:
Italian Infant Abandonment and the Politics of
Reproduction,"
Italian Politics and Society,
44, Fall 1995.
"Women in Italian Politics: A Review of Donald
Meyer, S
ex and Power: The Rise of Women in
America, Russia, Sweden, and Italy (2nd ed.),"
Italian Politics and Society, 35, Winter
1991-92, pp. 20-22.
"Review of Cynthia Enloe,
Bananas, Beaches, and
Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International
Politics,"
Journal of Politics, 53 (1),
February 1991.
"Review of Herbert Kitschelt,
The Logics of Party
Formation and Sidney Tarrow, Struggle, Politics and
Reform,"
West European Politics, 13 (4),
October 1990.
"Review of April Carter,
The Politics of Women's
Rights,"
Journal of Politics, 51 (3),
August 1989.
"Review of Judith Adler Hellman,
Journeys Among
Women: Feminism in Five Italian Cities,"
West
European Politics, 12 (1), January 1989.
"Review of Howard R. Penniman, ed.,
Italy at the
Polls, 1983: A Study of the National Elections,"
American Political Science Review, 82 (3)
September 1988.
"Review of S. E. Eisenstadt et al.,
Centre
Formation, Protest Movements, and Class Structure in
Europe and the United States,"
West European
Politics, 11 (3), July 1988.
"Review Essay: Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum,
Liberazione della donna: Feminism in Italy and Yasmine Ergas,
Nelle maglie della politica:
Femminismo, istituzioni, e politiche sociali nell'
Italia degli anni '70,"
Women and Politics,
VIII (3), Fall 1988.
"Review of Donald Sassoon,
Contemporary Italy:
Politics, Economy, and Society Since 1945,"
West European Politics, 11 (1), January, 1988.
"Review of Mario Manfredi and Ada Mangano,
Alle
origini del diritto femminile," Conference Group
on Italian Politics
Newsletter, #15, August
1984, pp. 27-32.
"Review of Patricia Caplan and Janet Bujra, eds.,
Women United, Women Divided,"
Women and
Politics, I (3), Fall, 1980.
"Research Resources for the Study of Women and
Politics in Italy,"
European Studies Newsletter,
VIII (1), September, 1978.
WORK IN PROGRESS
“The Gendered Organization of Political Power: Working through the Comparative Politics of Gender,” unpublished manuscript.
Gender, Class and the Price of Intersectionality, unpublished manuscript (project on working-class women’s activism in the UMWA strike against Pittston Coal Group).
Mobilization after Loss? Social Movements and the Effects of Losing, unpublished manuscript (project on working-class women’s remobilization in support of NUM campaigns in Great Britain).
Women, Politics and Governance in West Europe, Palgrave Press (under contract).
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, for project on “Mobilization after Loss? Social Movements and the Effects of Losing.” Summer 2009. $6000.
Travel Grant, Political Studies Association, United Kingdom, to attend Political Studies Association meetings, Manchester, UK, April 7-9. 2009, to present paper titled “The Effects of Losing: Social Movement Campaigns and the 1992-93 Anti-Pit Closure Campaign in Britain.”
Presidential Initiative Grant for "Toward a
Comparative Politics of Gender: Advancing the
Discipline along Interdisciplinary Boundaries," Case
Western Reserve University, March 2007. $31,780
Council for European Studies Travel Grant,
Council for European Studies, Fall 2007. $300
ADVANCES Distinguished Lectureship Grant to bring
Professor Theda Skocpol to campus, Case Western Reserve University,
October 2007.
Baker-Nord Foreign Travel Grant, Baker-Nord Center
for the Humanities, for travel to the European
Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions, in
Helsinki, Finland; Case Western Reserve University,
February 2007. $1600
ADVANCES Distinguished Lectureship Grant to bring
Professor Mary Fainsod Katzenstein to campus, Case Western Reserve University,
January 2007.
Grant, the Henry Luce III Fund for Distinguished Scholarship, The College of Wooster, Fall Semester 2004.
Faculty Research Leave, The College of Wooster, for Spring Semester 2004, for project entitled Women, Politics and Governance in West Europe.
Grant, the Henry Luce III Fund for Distinguished Scholarship, The College of Wooster, Fall Semester 2001, for project entitled "Women, Gender, and Nonviolence."
Faculty Research Leave, The College of Wooster, for Spring Semester 2001.
Co-Principal Investigator, Council for European Studies Research Planning Grant, on "The State and Women's Movements," 1996-99.
Faculty Research Leave, The College of Wooster, for the 1997-98 academic year.
Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, for participation in the Summer Seminar "Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in U.S. Labor History," Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, June-August 1996.
Grants, Henry Luce III Fund for Distinguished Scholarship, The College of Wooster, Fall, 1995; Fall 1993.
Principal Investigator, Research Planning Grant SES-9224413, National Science Foundation, January 15, 1993-June 30, 1994.
Simon Honorary Research Fellowship, The University of Manchester, Manchester, England, 1992-93.
Research Grant, American Political Science Association, 1992.
Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, for participation in the Summer Seminar "Political Histories of Collective Action," Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, June-August 1992.
Faculty Research Leave, The College of Wooster, for the 1992-93 academic year.
Grant, Henry Luce III Fund for Distinguished Scholarship, The College of Wooster, Fall, 1987.
Faculty Research Leave, The College of Wooster, for the 1987-88 academic year, second semester.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Summer Stipend for Statistics Seminar, Summer, 1985, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Various support funds, Dean's Development Fund and Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, College of Wooster, 1985-1997.
Travel Grant, Harvard University Center for International Affairs, June, 1983.
Oakland University Faculty Research Fellowship, for field research on Italian political parties and the feminist movement, 1982.
Stipend, European University Institute Summer School for Comparative European Politics, June-July, 1982.
Faculty Development Fund Grant, Department of Political Science, Oakland University, Winter, 1982.
Travel Grant and Honorarium, American Political Science Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities, for participation in the Ethical Issues Seminar "The Status of a Citizen," Washington, D.C., May and August, 1980.
Travel Grant, Council for European Studies, Columbia University, Spring, 1979.
SCHOLARLY PAPERS AND CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
“Gendered Competitive Interaction and Women’s Executive Electoral Success,” paper accepted for presentation at the American Political Science Association meetings, Toronto, Canada, September 3-6, 2009.
Discussant, Panel on The State and Gender Equality, panel accepted for the American Political Science Association meetings, Toronto, Canada, September 3-6, 2009.
“The Effects of Losing: Social Movement Campaigns and the 1992-93 Anti-Pit Closure Campaign in Britain,” paper presented at the Political Studies Association meetings, Manchester, UK, April 7-9, 2009.
“Gender, Class and the Price of Intersectionality,” paper presented at the Short Course on Intersectionality at the American Political Science Association meetings, Boston, August 27, 2008.
“Mobilization After Loss: Social Movements and the Effects of Losing,” paper presented on the panel Organizing, Gender, Social Movements at the American Political Science Association meetings, Boston, August 28-31, 2008.
Discussant, Panel on Electoral Institutions and Female Representation, American Political Science Association meetings, Boston, August 28-31, 2008.
Organizer and Chair, Roundtable on "Toward a
Comparative Politics of Gender: Advancing the
Discipline along Interdisciplinary Boundaries," American Political Science Association
meetings, Chicago, Illinois, August 30-September 2,
2007.
Participant, Theme Roundtable on the APSA Task
Force on Interdisciplinarity, American Political
Science Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois,
August 30-September 2, 2007.
Organizer and Chair, Roundtable on
"Interdisciplinary Teaching in Political Science:
Best Practices?," Midwest Political
Science Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois,
April 12-15, 2007.
Panelist, Theme Roundtable on "Studying Gender and
Politics Over Time: Questions and Strategies for
Future Research," Midwest Political Science
Association meetings, Chicago, April 12-15, 2007.
Discussant, Panel on Political Women and American Democracy, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 20-23, 2006.
Chair, Panel on How Electoral Institutions Affect Voter Evaluations of Women Candidates, American Political Science Association meetings, Washington , D.C., September 1-4, 2005.
Discussant, Panel on Do Women Represent Women?: Rethinking the
'Critical Mass' Debate, American Political Science Association meetings, Washington , D.C., September 1-4, 2005.
"Politics
& Gender:
The Role of Specialized Journals" (with Lisa Baldez),
paper presented on the panel
Publishing Political Science:
Success Rates of Women and Minorities Revisited,
American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, D.C.,
September 1-4, 2005.
Discussant, panel on Historical Approaches to Gender Inequality and Representation, American Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois, September 1-4, 2004.
Discussant, panel on The Impact of Feminist Civil Society on Gender Politics Around the Globe, American Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois, September 1-4, 2004.
"Autonomy and Involvement: Mapping Strategic Engagements of Women's Movements," paper presented at the International Studies Association meetings, Montreal, Canada, March 17-20, 2004.
"Sheer Numbers, with Kimberly Cowell-Meyers, paper presented at the American Political Science Association meetings, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 28-31, 2003.
"Nonviolence and Its Consequences, paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois, April 3-6, 2003.
Organizer and chair, "Do Women's Movements Have a Shared Tactical Repertoire?, panel presented at the Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois, April 3-6, 2003.
"The Substantive Representation of Women: Newness, Numbers, and Models of Representation, paper presented at the American Political Science Association meetings, Boston, Massachusetts, August 29-September 1, 2002.
"Mobilization After Loss? Women's Organizing and Political Learning," revised paper presented on the panel on
Mobilization and Advocacy in Political Movements, European Consortium for Political Research Meetings, the University of Kent at Canterbury, Britain, September 6-8, 2001.
"Feminism, Participation, and Political Generations, paper presented on the panel on
Political Generations, Roberta Sigel, Chair, for the American Political Science Association meetings, San Francisco, California, August 30-September 2, 2001.
Organizer and chair, When Power Relocates: Women's Movements Facing a Reconfigured State, panel presented at the American Political Science Association meetings, San Francisco, California, August 30-September 2, 2001.
"The Gendering Ways of States: Women's Representation and State Transformations in France, Great Britain and the United States, paper presented on the panel
When Power Relocates: Women's Movements Facing a Reconfigured State, for the American Political Science Association meetings, San Francisco, California, August 30-September 2, 2001.
"Gendered Discourse, Gendered Structure: Women's Activism in the Pittston Coal Strike, paper presented on the roundtable on
Race, Gender, and the Future of the Labor Movement, at the American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, D.C., August 31-September 3, 2000.
"Mobilization After Loss? Women's Organizing and Political Learning," paper presented on the panel on
Thinking Theoretically about Women's Movements, 2000 Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, Illinois, April 27-30.
Discussant, panel on The Global, Regional and Local Dynamics of Nonviolent Conflict since 1980, at the American Political Science Association meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, 2-4 September 1999.
"Strikes and State Response: Structure and System in Collective Action," paper presented at the 1998 American Political Science Association meetings, Boston, Massachusetts, September 3-6.
Organizer and Co-Chair, Frontiers of Women and Politics Research, faculty seminar for advanced graduate students, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2 September 1998.
"The Gendering Ways of States: Women's Representation and State Transformations in Britain, France, Italy and the United States," paper presented at the
Women's Movements and States Research Group Workshop, The Pennsylvania State University, April 30-May 3, 1998.
Chair, panel on New Institutions for Women: Moving Towards Democracy?, 1997 American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, D.C., August 28-31.
Chair, roundtable on The Concept of Gender: Research Implications for Political Science, 1997 American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, D.C., August 28-31.
Organizer, Hyde Park Session on Crafting New Institutions: Women and Politics in the Next Century, 1997 American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, D.C., August 28-31.
"'The Curved Path of History': Community, Culture, and Gender in a British Miners' Struggle, paper presented on the panel on
Gender, Culture and the Contemporary Labor Movement in Comparative Perspective, at the 1995 North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, Michigan, October 19-20.
"Women's Movements and Women in Movements: Political Opportunity in Context," paper presented at the 1995 American Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois, August 31-September 3.
Discussant, panel on Gender in Comparative Perspective: Post-Industrial States, 1995 Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois, April 6-8.
Organizer, Gender and Party Politics, panel organized for the Conference on Party Politics in the Year 2000, Manchester, England, January 13-15, 1995.
"The Greater the Number of Seats: District Magnitude and Women's Access to Office in Italy," paper presented at the Conference on "Party Politics in the Year 2000, Manchester, England, January 13-15, 1995.
Organizer, Comparative Method, Feminist Methodology: The Cross-National Study of Women and Politics, panel organized for the 1994 American Political Science Association meetings. Co-sponsored by the APSA Comparative Politics Section and the Women and Politics Research Section.
Discussant, Race and Gender in British Politics, panel sponsored by the British Politics Group, 1994 American Political Science Association meetings, New York, New York.
"Women in a Men's Movement: Political Opportunity and Gender in Britain," paper presented at the workshop on
The Impact of Context on Collective Action, 1994 European Consortium for Political Research meetings, Madrid, Spain, April 17-22.
Organizer, Panel on Political Opportunity in Comparative Perspective, 1994 Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois.
"Strikes and Standing: Women and Miners' Strikes in Britain and the United States," paper presented at the 1994 Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois.
Discussant, Panel on Cross-National Comparisons of Women's Activism, 1993 American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, D.C.
Discussant, Panel on Teaching Women and Politics, 1993 American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, D.C.
Participant, Department of Peace Studies Conference on Gender and Democracy, University of Bradford, Bradford, Great Britain, 27 November 1992.
Chair and Organizer, Panel on Comparative Politics and Women and Politics Research, 1992 American Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois. Co-sponsored by the APSA Comparative Politics Section and the Women and Politics Research Section.
"Collective Action and Action Repertoires in the 1989-90 UMW-Pittston Strike," paper presented at the NEH Summer Seminar on
Political Histories of Collective Action, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, August 4, 1992.
"Women and Miners' Strikes: Assessing Post-Strike Transformation of Activist Women," paper presented at the European Consortium for Political Research meetings, Workshop on Studying the Effects of Social Movements, Limerick, Ireland, March 30-April 4, 1992.
Chair and Organizer, roundtable on Comparative Political Method and the Study of Women and Politics, 1991 American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, D.C. Co-sponsored by the APSA Comparative Politics Section and the Women and Politics Research Section.
Chair and Organizer, panel on Women and Politics in West Europe: Access to Elective Office, 1991 American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, D. C.
"Political Disaster, Political Triumph: The Election of Women to National Parliaments," written with R. Darcy, paper presented at the 1991 American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, D.C.
Discussant, panel on Historical and Comparative Perspectives on Women's Movements, 1991 Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois.
Chair and Discussant, panel on Women as Political Actors: A Comparative Perspective, 1990 American Political Science Association meetings, San Francisco, California.
"Comparative Research and Electoral Systems: Lessons from France and Italy," paper presented at the 1990 Conference for Europeanists, Washington, D. C.
Discussant, panel on Rightwing Extremism in Western Europe, 1990 Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois.
Discussant, panel on Women, Elections and Representation in Cross-National Perspective, 1989 American Political Science Association meetings, Atlanta, Georgia.
"System Change and Women's Representation: The Case of France," paper presented at the 1988 American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, D. C.
"Mothers and Politics: What Children Do To and For Women's Political Participation," paper presented at the 1987 Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois.
Participant, Roundtable on Do Electoral Systems Discriminate Against Women?, 1986 American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, D.C.
Discussant, panel on Alternative Forms of Participation: Gender and Race Factors, 1986 Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois.
"Structural Barriers to Women's Access to Office: The Cases of France, Italy and the United States," paper presented at the 1984 American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, D. C.
"Parties and Non-Party Associations: The Case of the Italian Feminist Movement and the Italian Communist Party," paper presented at the 1983 American Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois.
"Representation in the Italian Parliament: Isomorphic Representation of Women and Policy Responsiveness to Women's Issues," paper presented at the Conference Group on Italian Politics Conference on Institutional Performance in Italy, Bellagio, Italy, June 14-19, 1983.
"Italian Women and Politics in the Postwar Period," prepared for the 1983 Annual Meetings of the European Consortium for Political Research, Freiburg, Germany, March, 1983.
Chair, The Cycles of Non-Labor Protest in Italy in the 1970's, panel organized for the 1982 Conference for Europeanists, Washington, D.C.
Chair, Women, Women's Movements, and the Challenge to the State, panel organized for the 1981 Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Discussant, panel on Political Participation Other Than Electoral Participation, 1980 Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois.
Participant, APSA/NEH-sponsored Ethical Issues series seminar on
The Status of a Citizen, Washington, D.C., May 17-18 and August 27-28, 1980.
"Female PCI Deputies to the Italian Parliament: A Thirty-Year Retrospective," paper presented at the First Annual Meetings of the Conference for Europeanists, Washington, D.C., March, 1979.
Discussant, panel on Equal Employment Opportunity in Women's Policy Issues, 1979 American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, D.C.
"The Cross-Cultural Study of Women and Politics: Methodological Problems," paper presented at the 1978 Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois.
Discussant, panel on Quantitative Approaches to Women's Political Behavior, 1977 American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, D.C.
"A Comparative Perspective on Women's Political Behavior in Italy," paper presented at the 1977 Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois.
"Ideology and Class Consciousness in the Thought of Karl Marx," paper presented at the 1977 Western Political Science Association meetings, Phoenix, Arizona.
INVITED LECTURES
“Women, Gender, and Politics: Surveying the Post-Election Landscape,” Invited Lecture to the William and Mary School, sponsored by the American Constitution Society and the Women’s Law Society, Williamsburg, Virginia, November 17, 2008.
“’The Curved Path of History’: Women, Political Science and Women’s Studies in the 21st Century,” Invited Lecture to Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Women’s Studies Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, September 26, 2008.
“Are We De-Gendering Presidential Politics? Women, Participation, and Representation in US Democracy,” Invited Lecture, Endowed Annual Lecture on Women and Politics, Department of Political Science, State University of New York at Geneseo, April 9, 2008.
"State Reconfiguration and Unintended Consequences: The Two Ironies of State Reconfiguration," lecture presented at the City College New York, April 2, 2005.
"Mobilization After Loss? Women's Organizing and Political Learning in British Mining Strikes," lecture given to the Research Group on Gender and Workplace Issues, Seminar Lunch Series, Fraser Center for Labor Studies, Wayne State University, November 3, 2003.
"The Gender Gap and Women's Descriptive and Substantive Representation in the United States," presented to the Fourteenth Annual Summer Seminar in U.S. Studies for Latin American Social Scientists and Non-Academic Professionals, the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, the University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, July 18, 2002.
"Women, Gender and Nonviolence in Political Movements," presented to the Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, October 31, 2001.
"Overview: Strategic Nonviolent Action and
'People Power'," opening presentation (with Peter Ackerman) of the Colloquium on Strategic Nonviolent Campaigns for Social Change, Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, October 1, 2001.
"Gender Frames and Collective Action," presented to the Department of Political Science, Labor Studies Program, and Women's Studies Program at the Pennsylvania State University, April 30, 1998.
"Regendering Collective Action: Configurations of Masculinity in the Pittston Coal Strike," presented to the Department of Politics, Oberlin College, March 6, 1998.
"Women and Strike Support: Political Discourse in Britain and the United States," presented to the Boston Area Feminist Theory Colloquium, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, December 7, 1995.
"When Class Struggle Learns From Race Struggle," College of Wooster Forum Lecture, September 29, 1994.
"Strikes and Struggle: Standing as Women in a Men's Movement," paper presented to the Program on Nonviolent Sanctions, Harvard University, March 1994.
"Women and Strike Support: Mines, Communities and Political Discourse in the 1989-90 Pittston Coal Strike," International Centre for Labour Studies Seminar Programme, The University of Manchester, Manchester, England, December 3, 1992.
"Strikes and State Response: The United Mine Workers of America and the Strike Against Pittston Coal," Department of Government Seminar Programme, The University of Manchester, Manchester, England, November 18, 1992.
"Feminist Political Methodology and Political Science," Manchester Political Theory Conference on "Studying Politics," The University of Manchester, Manchester, England, November 6, 1992.
"Theorizing Motherhood in Women's Political Participation," Lecture to the Women's Studies Program, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, February 20, 1992.
"Women and Political Movements: Location, Identity, and Opportunity in the 1989-90 Pittston Coal Strike," Lecture to the Women's Studies Program, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, February 21, 1992.
"[De]Constructing Disciplines: Women's Studies and Political Science," Lecture to the Department of Political Science, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, February 21, 1992.
"Barriers to Women's Access to Office: The Role of Family and Children," Lecture to the Women's Studies Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, March 4, 1988.
"Studying the Gender Gap: Approaches, Results, Interpretations," Lecture sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, November 19, 1987.
"Mothers and Politics: What Children Do To and For Women's Political Participation," Convocation to the College of Wooster, February 11, 1986.
"The Contemporary Feminist Movement in the United States," lecture to the Union of Italian Women, Bologna, Italy, July 5, 1982.
"Parties, Organizations, and Political Movements: The Italian Communist Party, the Union of Italian Women, and the Feminist Movement in Italy," lecture to the 1982 Summer School on Comparative European Politics, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, June 30, 1982.
"Socialism in Western Europe," Politika Lecture of the Department of Political Science, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, February 22, 1982.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Flora Stone Mather Professor, Department of
Political Science, Case Western Reserve University,
2006-2011.
Professor, Department of Political Science, The College of Wooster, 1997-2006.
Visiting Scholar, Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2001-02.
Visiting Professor, Department of Government, Cornell University, Summer 1999.
Visiting Scholar, Gund School of Law, Case Western Reserve University, 1997-98.
Simon Research Fellow and Visiting Professor, Department of Government and Centre for Labour Studies, The University of Manchester, Manchester, Great Britain, 1992-93.
Visiting Fellow, Women's Studies Program, Cornell University, January-May, 1988.
Visiting Scholar, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, July-December, 1987.
Visiting Scholar, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Summer, 1985.
Visiting Scholar, The Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies, Bologna, Italy, Summer, 1982.
Chair, Department of Political Science, The College of Wooster, 1990-92.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, The College of Wooster, 1990-1997.
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, The College of Wooster, 1985-1990.
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, 1980-1984.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member, APSA Presidential Task Force on Interdisciplinarity,
2006-2007.
Member, International Committee, American
Political Science Association, January 1, 2003 to
December 31, 2005
EDITORSHIPS AND EDITORIAL BOARDS
Lead Founding Editor, Politics and Gender,
2004-2007
Co-editor, Gender and Politics Series, Oxford University Press.
Editorial Board Member, PS: Political Science and Politics, 1997-2000.
Editorial Board Member, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 1998-2004.
Editorial Board Member, Party Politics, 1993-2000.
Editorial Board Member, American Journal of Political Science, 1991-1994.
Associate Editor, Women and Politics: A Journal of Research and Policy Review, 1986-1989.
PRIZE COMMITTEES
Member, James Christoph Best Paper Prize, British Politics Group, 2008.
Member, Midwest Women's Caucus's Award Committee
for the Outstanding Professional Achievement Award,
Midwest Political Science Association, 2008.
Chair, Sophonsiba Breckinridge Prize Committee, Best Paper on Women and Politics, Midwest Political Science Association, 2007.
Member, Donald Stokes Dissertation Prize Committee, British Politics Group, 2000.
Chair and Member, Gabriel A. Almond Dissertation Prize Committee, American Political Science Association, 1999.
Jury Member, Best Graduate Student Paper Prize, Party Politics, 1998.
ELECTED AND APPOINTED POSITIONS
Executive Council Member, British Politics Group, 1999-2001, 2001-2003.
Executive Council Member, Midwest Political Science Association, 1993-1996.
President, Organized Section on Women and Politics Research of the American Political Science Association, 1997-98.
Section Chair, Women and Politics Research, for the 1997 American Political Science Association meetings.
Executive Council Member, Organized Section on Women and Politics Research of the American Political Science Association, 2002-2004, 1994-95.
Executive Committee, Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society, 1992-95.
Secretary/Treasurer, Organized Section on Women and Politics Research of the American Political Science Association, 1990-94.
Secretary, Women's Caucus for Political Science, 1990-1991.
COURSES TAUGHT (SINCE 2006, CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
USSO280 Democracy? (University SAGES Seminar)
POSC109 The American Political System
POSC343/443 Political Movements and Political Participation
POSC346/446: Women and Politics
COURSES TAUGHT (BEFORE 2006. COLLEGE OF WOOSTER, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED
PSC110 Introduction to U.S. National Politics
GOV131 Introduction to Comparative Politics (Cornell
University)
PSC206 Political Parties and Elections
PSC207 Money and Politics
PSC209 Political Movements and Collective Action
PSC210 Women, Power and Politics
PSC247 Women's Movements in Comparative Perspective
PSC247 British Politics and Government
PSC250 Quantitative Methods in Political Research
PSC401 Junior Independent Study Thesis Seminar
PSC451-452 Senior Independent Study Thesis Tutorial
Interdisciplinary Courses:
First-Year Seminar: "Democracy and Nonviolence"
(2002, 2003)
First-Year Seminar: "Inventing Great Britain" (1999)
First-Year Seminar: "Difference, Power,
Discrimination: Perspectives on Race, Gender, Class
and Culture" (1990)
First-Year Seminar: "Communities in Conflict" (1989)
WMNS120 Introduction to Women's Studies
REVIEW ACTIVITY
Proposal Reviewer, Guggenheim Foundation (2006)
Proposal Reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2004)
Proposal Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities (2003, 1999, 1998)
Proposal Reviewer, National Science Foundation (1998, 1994)
Proposal Reviewer, The Rockefeller Foundation (1996)
Manuscript Reviewer for Journals:
American Journal of Political Science
American Journal of Sociology
American Politics Quarterly
American Review of Politics
American Sociological Review
British Journal of Political Science
Comparative Political Studies
Comparative Politics
International Feminist Journal of Politics
Journal of Politics
Journal of Women's History
Legislative Studies Quarterly
Mobilization
Party Politics
Perspectives on Politics
Political Behavior
Political Research Quarterly
Political Studies
Politics & Gender
PS: Political Science and Politics
Signs
Social Science Quarterly
World Politics
Manuscript Reviewer for Presses:
Cambridge University Press
Oxford University Press
Polity Press
Routledge Press
Scott-Foresman Publishing
Stanford University Press
Temple University Press
University of Illinois Press
The University of Michigan Press
The University of Minnesota Press
University of South Carolina Press
West Publishing
Yale University Press
EXTERNAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
European University Institute, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Fiesole, Italy: Elena del Giorgio, What
Has Happened to the Women’s Movement? Organisational Dynamics and Trajectories of Feminist Organisations in Milan and Berlin, date to be announced.
University of Buffalo, Department of Political Science: Farida Jalalzai, Women Leaders in Comparative
Perspective, 1960-2002, 2006.
Rutgers University, Department of Political Science: Rachelle Brooks, The Effects of Paid Employment on
Women’s Political Activity, 2000
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
Executive Committee of the College of Arts and Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 2008-2011 (elected position).
Committee on Appointments, College of Arts and
Sciences, Case Western Reserve University,
2007-2008.
Women's Studies Faculty Committee, Case Western
Reserve University, since 2006-2008.
Committee to Evaluate the Dean of Faculty, The
College of Wooster, Chair, 2004-2005.
Member, Teaching Staff and Tenure Committee, The
College of Wooster, 2002-2003 (elected position).
Vice President for Academic Affairs Search
Committee, The College of Wooster, 2002-2003
(elected position).
Student Evaluation Committee, The College of
Wooster, 2002-2004.
Faculty Development Committee, The College of
Wooster, 1999-2000.
Vice President for Academic Affairs Search
Committee, The College of Wooster, 1996-97 (elected
position).
Research and Study Leaves Committee, The College of
Wooster, Chair, Fall 2004; 1995-96; member, 1993-96,
2004.
Chair, Department of Political Science, The College
of Wooster, 1990-92.
Financial Advisory Committee, The College of
Wooster, 1988-91; 1994-97; 1999-2002 (elected
position).
Faculty Representative, Truman Scholarship Program,
The College of Wooster, 1990-92, 1993-1997,
1999-2000.
International Relations Program Curriculum
Committee, The College of Wooster, 1990-92.
Women's Studies Program Curriculum Committee, The
College of Wooster, 1986-88.
Chair, Women's Studies Program, Oakland University,
1982-84.
LANGUAGES
Italian: fluency, good; reading and writing, fair.
French: reading, fair.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Political Science Association
- Women and Politics Research Section (former President; former Program Chair; former Executive Board member; former Treasurer)
- Comparative Politics Section
- Political Organizations and Parties Section
- Race and Ethnicity Section
British Politics Group (current and former Executive Board member)
Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society (former Executive Council member)
Midwest Political Science Association (former Executive Council member)
Women's Caucus for Political Science (former Recording Secretary)
