B.A.  Smith College
M.A. University of Chicago
Ph.D. University of Chicago
 

Courses:

Max 201: Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences
PSC 792: Research Design in Political Science
PSC 202: Political Argument and Reasoning

Recent Publications:

“Assessing the Impact of a Quantitative Skills Course for Undergraduates,” with Dana Michael Harsell, Journal of Political Science Education 1:1 (2004).

“Political Institutions and Incorporation of Immigrants,” chapter 9 in The Politics of Democratic Inclusion, Christina Wolbrecht (ed.), Temple University Press, forthcoming. Co-authored with Elizabeth F. Cohen.

“Political Parties and Civil Society: Learning from the American Case,” chapter in Democratic Institution Performance: Research and Policy Perspectives (ed., Edward R. McMahon).

“Women and Political Parties” (review essay, based on Jo Freeman, A Room at a Time: How Women Entered Party Politics; Rebecca Edwards, Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics From the civil War to the Progressive Era; and Melanie Gustafson, Kristie Miller, and Elisabeth Israels Perry [eds], We Have Come to Stay: American Women and Political Parties, 1880-1960. Women & Politics 23:4 (2001).

"A Gender Gap in Publishing? Women’s Representation in Political Science Edited Books” (co-authored with Lanethea Mathews), PS: Political Science and Politics, 34 (March, 2001), pp. 143-147.

“The Gender Gap and Experiences with the Welfare State,” PS: Political Science and Politics 32, March 1999, pp. 17-19.

After Suffrage: Women in Partisan and Electoral Politics Before the New Deal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

“Gender and Public Opinion.” In Understanding Public Opinion, edited by Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1996. Reprinted in Samuel Kernell and Steven S. Smith (eds.), Principles and Practice of American Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readings (Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2001).

Research Interests and Projects:

1) Project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York studying five medium-sized cities across the US which have experienced recent immigration, uses interviews and other data to look at whether and how institutions (local governments, parties, civic organizations) are making efforts to incorporate new immigrant groups into civic and political life.

2) Book-length manuscript on the transformation of the Democratic Party, nationally and in New York State, during the late 1920s and early 1930s. This brings together information about activities of party leaders and party elites with data on the response of voters, especially groups such as immigrants, working class and union voters, and young voters, during this period.

Papers done with students:

“Assessing the Impact of a Quantitative Skills Course for Undergraduates,” with Dana Michael Harsell, Journal of Political Science Education 1:1 (2004).

"Political Parties, NGOs, and Immigrant Incorporation: A Case Study", with Jessica Wintringham, presented at 2003 meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association.

“Adjunct Teaching” (co-authored with Ryan Petersen), to be included in 2nd edition of University Teaching: A Guide for Graduate Students, ed. Leo Lambert, Stacey Tice, and Patricia Featherstone (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press).

“A Gender Gap in Publishing? Women’s Representation in Political Science Edited Books” (co-authored with Lanethea Mathews), PS: Political Science and Politics, 34 (March, 2001), pp. 143-147.

“Gender and Student Evaluations of Teaching,” PS: Political Science and Politics 29, June 1997 (with Elizabeth Miller), pp. 216-219.

“Gender as a Factor in the Attribution of Leadership Traits” (with Deborah Alexander). Political Research Quarterly (formerly Western Political Quarterly) 46 (September 1993): 527-545.