CURRICULUM VITAE
KAREN BECKWITH Flora Stone Mather Professor
Department of Political Science Phone: (216) 368-4129 Case Western Reserve University Fax: (216) 368-4681 223 Mather House Email: [email protected] 11201 Euclid Avenue http://politicalscience.case.edu/faculty/karen-beckwith/ Cleveland, Ohio U. S. A. 44106-7109
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
Comparative Women, Gender and Politics (Western Europe and the United States) Comparative Political Movements Political Parties and Elections (Western Europe and the United States) Electoral Systems and Representation
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender, with Claire Annesley and Susan Franceschet. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Political Women and American Democracy: Critical Perspectives on Women and Politics Research, eds. Christina Wolbrecht, Karen Beckwith and Lisa Baldez. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Women’s Movements Facing the Reconfigured State, eds. Lee Ann Banaszak, Karen Beckwith 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). Karen Beckwith 2
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
“What Do Women Symbolize? Symbolic Representation and Cabinet Appointments,” with Susan Franceschet and Claire Annesley, Politics, Groups, and Identities, 5 (3), 2017; http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/zDJcSrrNHAdJeIsMPDDP/full.
“Before Prime Minister: Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel, and Gendered Leadership Contests,” Politics & Gender, 11 (4), December 2015: 718–745.
“Narratives of Defeat: Explaining the Effects of Loss in Social Movements,” Journal of Politics, 77 (1), 2015: 2-13.
“Gender, Class, and the Structure of Intersectionality: Working-Class Women and the Pittston Coal Strike,” Politics, Groups and Identities, 2 (1), January 2014: 17-34.
“Interests, Issues and Preferences: Women’s Interests and Epiphenomena of Activism,” Politics & Gender, 7 (3), September 2011: 424-429.
“Comparative Politics and the Logics of a Comparative Politics of Gender,” Perspectives on Politics, 8 (1), March 2010: 159-168.
“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. Reprinted in Mona Lena Krook and Sarah Childs, eds., Women, Gender and Politics: A Reader (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010); and as “Izvan dosega komparacije? Ženski pokreti s komparativnog stajališta,” in Žene i politika: feministička Karen Beckwith 3
politička znanost, ed. Marjeta Šinko. Zagreb: Centar za ženske studije , 2015. Pp. 404-446.
“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, pp. 1-33.
“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
“Feminist Approaches to the Study of Executive Politics,” in The Oxford Handbook of Executive Politics, ed. Robert Elgie (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Forthcoming July 2020.
“All Is Not Lost: The 1984-85 British Miners’ Strike and Mobilization after Defeat,” in The Consequences of Social Movements: People, Policies and Institutions, eds. Lorenzo Bosi, Marco Giugni and Katrin Uba. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
“Interdisciplinarity and Undergraduate Teaching and Learning,” in Interdisciplinarity: Its Role in a Discipline-based Academy, eds. APSA Task Force on Interdisciplinarity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 135-151.
“Plotting the Path from One to the Other: Women’s Interests and Political Representation,” in Representation: The Case of Women’s Interests, eds. Michelle Taylor-Robinson and Maria Escobar- Lemmon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 19-40.
“The Comparative Study of Women’s Movements,” In The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics, eds. Karen Celis, Johanna Kantola, Georgina Waylen, and Laurel Weldon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 385-410.
“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. Pp. 181-198.
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“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. Reprinted in Mona Lena Krook and Sarah Childs, eds., Women, Gender and Politics: A Reader (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
“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 AND BOOK REVIEWS
“Review of Matthew Evangelista, ed., Italy from Crisis to Crisis: Political Economy, Security, and Society in the 21st Century,” Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, LII, December 2019. https://www.annalsfondazioneluigieinaudi.it/images/LIII/2019-2-018-beckwith.pdf
“State, Academy, Discipline: Regendering Political Science,” PS: Political Science and Politics, 48 (3), July 2015: 445-449. http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A97nCkylgTNMK2
“Review of Drude Dahlerup and Monique Leyenaar, eds., Breaking Male Dominance in Old Democracies (Oxford University Press, 2013),” Perspectives on Politics, 13 (2), June 2015: 54-56.
“Review of Susan J. Carroll and Kira Sanbonmatsu, More Women Can Run: Gender and Pathways to the State Legislatures (Oxford University Press, 2013),” Political Science Quarterly, 129 (4), Winter 2014: 712-14.
“Review of S. Laurel Weldon, When Protest Makes Policy: How Social Movements Represent Disadvantaged Groups (University of Michigan Press, 2011),” Journal of Politics, 74 (2), 2012.
“Review of Lee Ann Banaszak, The Women’s Movement Inside and Outside the State,” Social Forces, 89 (3), March 2011: 1064-66.
“Review of Karen L. Baird et al., Beyond Reproduction: Women’s Health, Activism and Public Policy, and Karen M. Kedrowski and Marilyn Stine Sarow, Cancer Activism: Gender, Media and Public Policy,” Perspectives on Politics, 8 (2), June 2010: 675-676.
Interdisciplinarity: Its Role in a Discipline-Based Academy. 2009. Summary Report of the APSA Task Force on Interdisciplinarity. Washington, DC: American Political Science Association. Task force members: John Aldrich, Chair (Duke); Lisa Anderson (Columbia); Karen Beckwith (CWRU); Karen Beckwith 5
Mathew Moen (University of South Dakota); Kristin Monroe (UC-Irvine); Kenneth Prewitt (Columbia); Robert Axelrod (Michigan) and Michael Brintnall (APSA), ex officio.
“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, Sex 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.
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“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
Mobilization after Loss? Social Movements and the Effects of Losing, unpublished manuscript (project on the effect of losing in social movement campaigns and likelihood of remobilization).
Some Day My Chance Will Come: Women Contesting for Executive Leadership in West Europe (project on female party leaders and women’s access to prime ministerships).
Women, Politics and Governance in West Europe, Palgrave Press (under contract).
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Visiting Researcher, the Mortara Center for International Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, October-December 2019.
Visiting Scholar, Centennial Center, American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September-December 2019.
American Political Science Association Centennial Grant, Presidency Research Fund, for book manuscript workshop on Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender, February 2017.
Skytte Manuscript Workshop for Claire Annesley, Karen Beckwith, and Susan Franceschet, Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender, book manuscript, at the University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, September 29-October 2, 2016; http://www.skytteprize.com/the-sixth-skytte-manuscript-workshop-at-the- department-of-government/; http://www.skytteprize.com/home/manuscript/.
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American Political Science Association Centennial Grant, Fund for the Study of Women and Politics, to support a research collaboration working session on “The Gendered Nature of Cabinet Appointments,” Centennial Center, American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, February 6-9, 2015.
Coalition Building to Advance Diverse Leadership and Address Discrimination in Political Science and Law & Social Sciences, Workshop Participant, National Science Foundation, NSF SES 1447782, January 7-19, 2015; https://genderingpoliticalscience.weebly.com/nsf-2015-workshop.html.
Fulbright-Scotland Visiting Professorship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, January 1-June 30, 2014.
Midwest Political Science Association Women’s Caucus Outstanding Scholar Award, 2013.
Hallsworth Visiting Professorship, University of Manchester, UK, 2012 (declined).
Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics, for Gender and Cabinet Recruitment: Pace and Profile in Gendering Government. January 2012. With Claire Annesley, Isabelle Engeli, and Susan Franceschet.
Gender and Executive Leadership, ECPR Research Session Grant, European Consortium for Political Research, European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy, May 2011.
ADVANCES Grant, Carpe Diem: Women’s Executive Electoral Success in West Europe. Case Western Reserve University, 2010-2011.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 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 Research Working Group: “Toward a Comparative Politics of Gender: Advancing the Discipline along Interdisciplinary Boundaries,” Case Western Reserve University, March 2007. $31,780.
ADVANCES Distinguished Lectureship Grant to bring Professor Theda Skocpol to campus, Case Western Reserve University, October 2007.
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.
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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.
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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.
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INVITED LECTURES
“Race and Gender in the New Cabinet: A Comparative Perspective,” Panel on Gender, Race, and Partisan Politics in the 45th Presidential Administration, The Humphrey School of Public Affairs, the University of Minnesota, January 25, 2017.
“Rules or Norms? Gender and Cabinet Recruitment,” Department of Political Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas, September 23-25, 2015.
“Informal Institutions and Cabinet Recruitment,” with Claire Annesley and Susan Franceschet, paper presented at the European Research Council-funded Workshop on Gender and Informal Institutions, The Midland Hotel, Manchester, UK, September 10-11, 2015.
“All Is Not Lost: The 1984-85 British Miners’ Strike and Mobilization after Defeat,” Public Lecture, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland, March 6, 2014. Invited lecture.
“The US Labor Movement: Current Issues and Future Prospects,” Scottish Parliament Women’s Dinner, Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, February 18, 2014.
“Mobilization after Loss? Social Movements and the Effects of Losing,” invited paper presented at the research conference on Silence in the Study of Social Movement Outcomes, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, September 6-8, 2012.
“Plotting the Path from One to the Other: Women’s Interests and Political Representation,” paper presented at the conference on Identity, Gender and Representation: Empirical Analysis of Representation of Women's Interests, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, February 23- 25, 2012.
Commentator, “Friendly Critics’ Round Table: What might a feminist analysis bring to the study of federalism? What might the study of federalism bring to feminist analysis?” FINSA Workshop on Gender and Federalism: New Ideas about Comparative Approaches, Washington, DC, September 5, 2010.
Presentation on Gender and Institutions, International Workshop on Rethinking the Dynamics of Political Institutions: Integrating Gender and Neo-Institutionalist Perspectives (Louise Chappell, Fiona Mackay, and Georgina Waylen, directors), University of Sydney, March 23-25, 2010.
Roundtable on Women and Politics, Sydney Ideas Public Lecture Series, sponsored by the US Studies Centre, University of Sydney (Australia), March 22, 2010.
“Women, Gender, and Politics: Surveying the Post-Election Landscape,” Invited Lecture to the William and Mary School of Law, 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. Karen Beckwith 11
“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.
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“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.
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SCHOLARLY PAPERS AND CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
2020 “New Parties, Party System Change, and Women’s Political Representation in Italy,” paper accepted for presentation at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, September 10-13, San Francisco, CA.
“Tools and Numbers: Women’s Inclusion in Political Institutions,” paper accepted for presentation at the annual meetings of the Political Studies Association, April 6-8. Edinburgh, Scotland. Conference cancelled.
2019 “Institutionalizing Women’s Inclusion in Governing Cabinets,” with Claire Annesley and Susan Franceschet, paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, August 29-September 1, Washington, DC.
“Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender,” with Claire Annesley and Susan Franceschet. Paper presented at the European Conference on Politics and Gender, July 4-6, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
“Ethnicity and Race in Cabinet Formation: Canada, the UK, and the US,” with Susan Franceschet. Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association meetings, April 4-7, Chicago, IL.
Member, Roundtable, Outstanding Professional Achievement Award Honoring Lisa Baldez, Midwest Women’s Political Caucus, Midwest Political Science Association meetings, April 4-7, Chicago, IL.
2018 Commentator, Workshop on Feminist Economic Empowerment, American Political Science Association meetings, August 29, 2018, Boston, MA.
Commentator, Theme Roundtable, New Directions in Research on Gender and Cabinets, American Political Science Association meetings, August 30-September 2, 2018, Boston, MA.
“Who Do You Have to Know? Affiliation, Gender, and Cabinet Appointments,” paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association meetings, April 4-8, Chicago, IL.
“Cabinets and Concrete Floors: Explaining Changing Patterns of Women’s Ministerial Appointments,” with Claire Annesley and Susan Franceschet, presentation to The Gender and British Politics Group at Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK, February 19, 2018.
2017 “Concrete Floor or Glass Ceiling? Metaphors and Women’s Political Representation,” with Susan Franceschet and Claire Annesley, paper presented at the American Political Science Association meetings, San Francisco, CA, August 31-September 3.
“Gender and Ministerial Recruitment,” with Claire Annesley and Susan Franceschet, paper presented at the Biennial Conference on Politics and Gender of the European Consortium for Political Research, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 8-10.
Commentator, Invited Research Workshop, Graduate Conference on Empirical Approaches to Gender (EGEN), Yale University, May 31-June 1. Conference by invitation only.
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Discussant and Reader, Invited Research Workshop on Historical Women’s Movements, Alice Paul Center, the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, May 12-13. Conference by invitation only.
“Glass Ceilings, Glass Cliffs, and Party Leadership Contests in Britain,” paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 6-9.
“Who Do You Have to Know? Affiliation, Gender, and Cabinet Appointments,” with Claire Annesley and Susan Franceschet, paper presented at the Conference on Gender, Institutions and Change: Feminist Institutionalism after 10 Years, Manchester, UK, April 3-5.
2016 Chair, Conference Theme Roundtable: The Next Big Questions in Gender and Politics, American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 1-4.
“Merit in Cabinet Appointment? Informal Rules and Women's Ministerial Recruitment,” with Claire Annesley and Susan Franceschet, presented on the panel Feminist Institutionalism at 10 years: New Perspectives on Transformative Change, American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 1-4.
Discussant, panel on Women’s Parties Around the World: Origins, Substance and Impact, American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 1-4.
Discussant, British Politics Group panel on Controls, Cues, and Incentives: State - Society Relations in U.K. Politics, American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 1-4.
“Gender and Party Leadership Contests in Scotland,” paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, April 7-10.
2015 “Gender and Low-Competition Contests: Party Leadership in Scotland,” paper presented on the panel Gender and Political Leadership, European Conference on Politics and Gender, University of Uppsala, Sweden, June 11-13.
“Rules or Norms? The Gendered Nature of Cabinet Appointments,” with Claire Annesley and Susan Franceschet, paper presented at the European Conference on Politics and Gender, University of Uppsala, Sweden, June 11-13.
2014 “What’s New? Institutional Transformation and Women’s Political Representation,” paper presented at the American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, DC, August 28- 31.
“From Party Leader to Prime Minister? Gender and Leadership Contests in West Europe.” Paper presented at the European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions of Workshops, Salamanca, Spain, April 10-15.
“Gender and the Executive Branch: Defining a New Research Agenda.” With Claire Annesley, Isabelle Engeli, and Susan Franceschet. Paper presented at the European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions of Workshops, Salamanca, Spain, April 10-15.
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Commentator, Research Conference on Gender, Politics, and Institutional Change in Bachelet’s Chile: 2006-2010, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, April 29. Conference by invitation only.
2013 Discussant, Panel on Understanding Newness and Institutional Change: A Gender Perspective, American Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, August 30.
Roundtable Panelist, “Leaning In and Having It All? Redefining Equality and Transforming Political Science in the New Millennium,” APSA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, American Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, August 29.
Roundtable Chair, “Organizing Women,” APSA Short Course on Gendering Political Science: Strategizing New Directions for Advancing Diverse Women in Political Science, American Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, August 28.
Roundtable Panelist, “The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher,” British Politics Group Short Course on Fragmented Democracy: Politics, Policy and Governance in a Divided Age, Chicago, IL, August 28.
“Narratives of Defeat: Explaining the Effects of Loss in Social Movements,” paper presented on the panel New Perspectives in Governance and Participation, Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, April 11-14.
Discussant, Panel on Trust and Civil Society, Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, April 11-14.
“Contesting for Party Leadership: Women, Gender and Opportunity,” paper presented at the European Conference on Politics and Gender, Standing Group of the European Consortium for Political Research, Barcelona, Spain, March 21-23.
Chair, Panel on Comparative Perspectives on Women and Executive Office, European Conference on Politics and Gender, Standing Group of the European Consortium for Political Research, Barcelona, Spain, March 21-23.
Discussant, Panel on Gender and Media Representations of Women in Politics, European Conference on Politics and Gender, Standing Group of the European Consortium for Political Research, Barcelona, Spain, March 21-23.
2012 “Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Executive Leadership,” paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, April 12-15. With Claire Annesley, Isabelle Engli, and Susan Franceschet.
Discussant, Panel on The Substantive Representation of Women around the World, Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, April 12-15.
2010 “Someday My Chance Will Come: Women Contesting for Executive Leadership in West Europe,” paper presented at the American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, DC, September 1-5.
Participant, Theme Roundtable on “The Meaning and Measurement of Women’s Interests,” at the Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, April 25. Podcast available at Karen Beckwith 16
http://www.mpsanet.org/~mpsa/Media/conf2010_Meaning_and_Measurement.mp3.
2009 “Gendered Competitive Interaction and Women’s Executive Electoral Success,” paper presented on the panel on The Best Women for the Job: Comparative Perspectives on Female Politicians’ Pathways to Power, the American Political Science Association meetings, Toronto, Canada, September 3.
Discussant, panel on The State and Gender Equality: Institutions, Policies and Movements, American Political Science Association meetings, Toronto, Canada, September 3.
“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.
2008 “Gender, Class and the Price of Intersectionality,” paper presented at the Short Course on Intersectionality at the American Political Science Association meetings, Boston, MA, August 27.
“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, MA, August 28-31.
Discussant, Panel on Electoral Institutions and Female Representation, American Political Science Association meetings, Boston, MA, August 28-31.
2007 Organizer and Chair, Theme Panel on “Toward a Comparative Politics of Gender: Advancing the Discipline along Interdisciplinary Boundaries,” American Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, August 30-September 2.
Participant, Theme Roundtable on the APSA Task Force on Interdisciplinarity, American Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, August 30-September 2.
Organizer and Chair, Roundtable on “Interdisciplinary Teaching in Political Science: Best Practices?,” Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, April 12-15.
Panelist, Theme Roundtable on "Studying Gender and Politics Over Time: Questions and Strategies for Future Research," Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, April 12-15.
2006 Discussant, Panel on Political Women and American Democracy, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 20-23.
2005 Chair, Panel on How Electoral Institutions Affect Voter Evaluations of Women Candidates, American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, DC, September 1-4.
Discussant, Panel on Do Women Represent Women?: Rethinking the ‘Critical Mass’ Debate, American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, DC, September 1-4.
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“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, DC, September 1-4.
2004 Discussant, panel on Historical Approaches to Gender Inequality and Representation, American Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, September 1-4.
Discussant, panel on The Impact of Feminist Civil Society on Gender Politics Around the Globe, American Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, September 1-4.
“Autonomy and Involvement: Mapping Strategic Engagements of Women's Movements,” paper presented at the International Studies Association meetings, Montreal, Canada, March 17-20.
2003 “Sheer Numbers,” with Kimberly Cowell-Meyers, paper presented at the American Political Science Association meetings, Philadelphia, PA, August 28-31.
“Nonviolence and Its Consequences,” paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, April 3-6.
Organizer and chair, “Do Women’s Movements Have a Shared Tactical Repertoire?,” panel presented at the Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, April 3-6.
2002 “The Substantive Representation of Women: Newness, Numbers, and Models of Representation,” paper presented at the American Political Science Association meetings, Boston, MA, August 29-September 1.
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, CA, August 30-September 2.
Organizer and chair, When Power Relocates: Women’s Movements Facing a Reconfigured State, panel presented at the American Political Science Association meetings, San Francisco, CA, August 30-September 2.
“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, CA, August 30-September 2.
2000 “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, DC, August 31-September 3.
“Mobilization After Loss? Women’s Organizing and Political Learning,” paper presented on the panel on Thinking Theoretically about Women’s Movements, Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, IL, April 27-30.
1999 Discussant, panel on The Global, Regional and Local Dynamics of Nonviolent Conflict since 1980, at the American Political Science Association meetings, Atlanta, GA, 2-4 September.
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“Strikes and State Response: Structure and System in Collective Action,” paper presented at the 1998 American Political Science Association meetings, Boston, MA, September 3-6.
1998 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.
“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, State College, PA, April 30-May 3.
1997 Chair, panel on New Institutions for Women: Moving Towards Democracy?, American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, DC, August 28-31.
Chair, roundtable on The Concept of Gender: Research Implications for Political Science, American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, DC, August 28-31.
Organizer, Hyde Park Session on Crafting New Institutions: Women and Politics in the Next Century, American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, DC, August 28-31.
1995 “’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 North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, MI, October 19-20.
“Women’s Movements and Women in Movements: Political Opportunity in Context,” paper presented at the American Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, August 31- September 3.
Discussant, panel on Gender in Comparative Perspective: Post-Industrial States, Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, 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.
“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.
1994 Organizer, Comparative Method, Feminist Methodology: The Cross-National Study of Women and Politics, panel organized for the American Political Science Association meetings, New York, NY. 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, American Political Science Association meetings, New York, NY.
“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, European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions, Madrid, Spain, April 17-22. Karen Beckwith 19
Organizer, Panel on Political Opportunity in Comparative Perspective, Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL.
“Strikes and Standing: Women and Miners' Strikes in Britain and the United States,” paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL.
1993 Discussant, Panel on Cross-National Comparisons of Women's Activism, American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, DC.
Discussant, Panel on Teaching Women and Politics, American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, DC.
1992 Participant, Department of Peace Studies Conference on Gender and Democracy, University of Bradford, Bradford, Great Britain, November 27.
Chair and Organizer, Panel on Comparative Politics and Women and Politics Research, American Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL. 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, NY, August 4.
“Women and Miners' Strikes: Assessing Post-Strike Transformation of Activist Women,” paper presented at the European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions, Workshop on Studying the Effects of Social Movements, Limerick, Ireland, March 30-April 4.
1991 Chair and Organizer, roundtable on Comparative Political Method and the Study of Women and Politics, American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, DC. 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, American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, DC.
“Political Disaster, Political Triumph: The Election of Women to National Parliaments,” with R. Darcy, paper presented at the American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, DC.
Discussant, panel on Historical and Comparative Perspectives on Women's Movements, Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL.
1990 Chair and Discussant, panel on Women as Political Actors: A Comparative Perspective, American Political Science Association meetings, San Francisco, CA.
“Comparative Research and Electoral Systems: Lessons from France and Italy,” paper presented at the Conference for Europeanists, Washington, DC.
Discussant, panel on Rightwing Extremism in Western Europe, Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL.
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1989 Discussant, panel on Women, Elections and Representation in Cross-National Perspective, American Political Science Association meetings, Atlanta, GA.
1988 “System Change and Women's Representation: The Case of France,” paper presented at the American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, DC.
1987 “Mothers and Politics: What Children Do To and For Women's Political Participation,” paper presented at the 1987 Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL.
1986 Participant, Roundtable on Do Electoral Systems Discriminate Against Women?, American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, DC.
Discussant, panel on Alternative Forms of Participation: Gender and Race Factors, Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL.
1984 “Structural Barriers to Women's Access to Office: The Cases of France, Italy and the United States,” paper presented at the American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, DC.
1983 “Parties and Non-Party Associations: The Case of the Italian Feminist Movement and the Italian Communist Party,” paper presented at the American Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL.
“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.
“Italian Women and Politics in the Postwar Period,” prepared for the Annual Meetings of the European Consortium for Political Research, Freiburg, Germany, March, 1983 (not presented).
1982 Chair, The Cycles of Non-Labor Protest in Italy in the 1970s, panel organized for the Conference for Europeanists, Washington, DC.
1980 Discussant, panel on Political Participation Other Than Electoral Participation, Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL.
Participant, APSA/NEH-sponsored Ethical Issues series seminar on The Status of a Citizen, Washington, DC, May 17-18 and August 27-28.
1979 “Female PCI Deputies to the Italian Parliament: A Thirty-Year Retrospective,” paper presented at the First Annual Meetings of the Conference for Europeanists, Washington, DC, March.
Discussant, panel on Equal Employment Opportunity in Women's Policy Issues, American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, DC.
1978 “The Cross-Cultural Study of Women and Politics: Methodological Problems,” paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL.
1977 Discussant, panel on Quantitative Approaches to Women's Political Behavior, American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, DC.
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“A Comparative Perspective on Women's Political Behavior in Italy,” paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL.
“Ideology and Class Consciousness in the Thought of Karl Marx,” paper presented at the Western Political Science Association meetings, Phoenix, AZ.
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PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Flora Stone Mather Professor, Case Western Reserve University, since 2006.
Chair, Department of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University, since 2015.
Acting Chair, Department of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University, 2010-2011.
Professor, Department of Political Science, The College of Wooster, 1997-2006.
Chair, Department of Political Science, The College of Wooster, 1990-1992.
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, 1981- 1984.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS (VISITING)
Visiting Scholar, American Political Science Association Centennial Center, Fall 2019.
Visiting Researcher, The Mortara Center for International Studies, Georgetown University, Fall 2019.
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.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, 1980-1981.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, the University of Michigan at Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, 1979-80.
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Elected and Appointed Positions:
Member, External Advisory Committee, Global Feminist Economic Empowerment Project, funded by the Gates Foundation (OPP1178582), Professor S. Laurel Weldon, PI, since 2018.
Member, Editorial Search Committee, Politics & Gender, journal of the American Political Science Association’s Organized Section on Women and Politics Research, 2018-19.
Member, Publications Committee, American Political Science Association, September 1, 2013- August 31, 2016.
Member, APSA Presidential Task Force on Interdisciplinarity, 2006-2007. The Task Force’s Report, Interdisciplinarity: Its Role in a Discipline-Based Academy, was published by Oxford University Press, 2014 (John Aldrich, Duke University, Chair).
Member, International Committee, American Political Science Association, January 1, 2003 to December 31, 2005.
Executive Council Member, British Politics Group, 2019-2021, 2013-2015, 2011-2013, 2001-2003, 1999-2001 (elected position).
Executive Council Member, Midwest Political Science Association, 1993-1996 (elected position).
President, Organized Section on Women and Politics Research of the American Political Science Association, 1997-98 (elected position).
Section Chair, Women and Politics Research, for the 1997 American Political Science Association meetings (elected position).
Executive Council Member, Organized Section on Women and Politics Research of the American Political Science Association, 2002-2004, 1994-95 (elected position).
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 (elected position).
Secretary, Women's Caucus for Political Science, 1990-1991 (elected position).
Editorships and Editorial Boards:
Lead Founding Editor, Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics, Cambridge University Press, since 2013.
Member, Editorial Board, American Political Science Review, 2020-2024.
Lead Founding Editor, Politics & Gender, 2004-2007.
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Member, Editorial Board, Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique, 2017-2020.
Member, Editorial Board, European Journal of Politics and Gender, since 2017.
Member, Editorial Board, Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2017-2019.
Member, Editorial Board, Comparative Political Studies, 2011-2014.
Co-editor, Gender and Politics Book Series, Oxford University Press, 2002-2007.
Member, Editorial Board, PS: Political Science and Politics, 1997-2000.
Member, Editorial Board, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 1998-2004.
Member, Editorial Board, Party Politics, 1993-2000.
Member, Editorial Board, American Journal of Political Science, 1991-1994.
Associate Editor, Women and Politics: A Journal of Research and Policy Review, 1986-1989.
Prize Committees:
Member, European Consortium for Political Research, Prize Committee for the Gender and Politics Career Achievement Award, 2019.
Chair, Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award Committee, American Political Science Association Organized Section on Political Organizations and Parties, for the best book on political parties published in the previous two years (http://www.apsanet.org/section-5-Leon-Epstein- Outstanding-Book-Award), 2018.
Member, James Christoph Best Paper Prize Committee, British Politics Group, 2008.
Member, Midwest Women's Caucus's Award Committee for the Outstanding Professional Achievement Award, Midwest Political Science Association, 2008.
Chair and Member, 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.
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REVIEW ACTIVITY
Proposal Reviewer, Guggenheim Foundation (2006)
Proposal Reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2016, 2011, 2004)
Proposal Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities (2003, 1999, 1998)
Proposal Reviewer, National Science Foundation (2020, 2016, 2014, 2011, 2009, 2008, 1998, 1994)
Proposal Reviewer, The Rockefeller Foundation (1996)
Manuscript Reviewer for Journals:
American Journal of Political Science* Journal of Politics American Journal of Sociology Journal of Women’s History American Political Science Review** Legislative Studies Quarterly American Politics Quarterly Mobilization American Review of Politics Parliamentary Affairs American Sociological Review Party Politics* British Journal of Political Science Perspectives on Politics Canadian Journal of Political Science** Political Behavior Comparative European Politics Political Research Quarterly Comparative Political Studies* Political Studies Comparative Politics Politics & Gender* European Journal of Politics and Gender** Politics, Groups, and Identities* European Political Science Review PS: Political Science and Politics* Government & Opposition Representation International Feminist Journal of Politics* Signs International Studies Quarterly Social Science Quarterly World Politics
*former editor or editorial board member **current editorial board member
Book Manuscript Reviewer for Presses:
Cambridge University Press Temple University Press Oxford University Press University of Illinois Press Palgrave Macmillan University of Michigan Press Polity Press University of Minnesota Press Routledge Press University of South Carolina Press Scott-Foresman Publishing West Publishing Stanford University Press Yale University Press
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COURSES TAUGHT (since 2006, Case Western Reserve University):
USSO289S Political Losers (University SAGES Seminar) USSO280 Democracy? (University SAGES Seminar) POSC109 The U.S. Political System POSC341/441 Elections, Voters and Political Parties POSC343/443 Political Movements and Political Participation POSC346/446 Women and Politics POSC363/463 Comparative Analysis of Elections and Electoral Systems POSC389 Special Topics: The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street POSC389 Special Topics: Political Losers POSC389 Special Topics: The Republican National Convention: Cleveland 2016 POSC396 Senior Capstone Project in Political Science
COURSES TAUGHT (before 2006, College of Wooster, unless otherwise noted):
PSC110 Introduction to U.S. National Politics 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
GOV131 Introduction to Comparative Politics (Cornell University, Summer 1999) WMST Feminist Political Thought (Cornell University, Spring 1979)
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
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
Chair, Department of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University, since July 1, 2015.
Member, General Education Requirements Thinking Group, Provost’s Commission on the Undergraduate Experience, Case Western Reserve University (Spring 2017; appointed by Provost).
CWRU College of Arts and Sciences Committee on Strategic Planning, 2016-2019 (appointed by the Dean of the College); Budget Subcommittee, 2016-2019.
Executive Committee of the College of Arts and Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 2020-2021; 2014-2017; 2008-2011 (elected position).
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Case Western Reserve University Faculty Senate, 2012-2015, 2016-2019 (elected position).
Committee on Appointments, College of Arts and Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 2007- 2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2011-2012, 2015-2016 (appointed by the Dean of the College).
Member, CWRU-Republican National Convention Steering Committee, 2015-2016; Member, Academic Subcommittee (appointed by the Provost).
Member, CWRU Flora Stone Mather Center for Women 10th Anniversary Host Committee, 2014
Case Western Reserve University ADVANCE Opportunity Grant Review Committee, 2012-13 (appointed by Deputy Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs).
Acting Chair, Department of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University, 2010-2011.
Women’s Studies Executive Committee, Case Western Reserve University, 2006-2010
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.
Women's Studies Program Curriculum Committee, The College of Wooster, 1986-88.
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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 (Executive Board member, multiple terms)
Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society (former Executive Council member)
European Consortium for Political Research Member, Standing Group on Elites and Political Leadership Member, Standing Group on Gender and Politics Member, Standing Group on Participation and Mobilisation Member, Standing Group on Political Parties
Midwest Political Science Association (former Executive Council member)
Women’s Caucus for Political Science (former Recording Secretary)
DISSERTATIONS (External Reader)
What Has Happened to the Women’s Movement? Organizational Dynamics and Trajectories of Feminist Organizations in Milan and Berlin, Elena del Giorgio, European University Institute (2010).
Women Leaders in Comparative Perspective, Farida Jalalzai, University of Buffalo (2004).
The Effects of Paid Employment on Women's Political Activity: An Analysis of Structural and Contextual Workplace Factors, Rachelle Brooks, Rutgers University (2000).
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SELECTED SENIOR CAPSTONE SUPERVISION (Case Western Reserve University)
Kirsten Costedio, #MeToo: An Analysis of the Viral Political Movement against Sexual Violence. (2019).
David McGrath, Effects of District Competitiveness on Polarization and Bipartisanship in Congress (2019).
Erin Camia, Narrative and Framing in the Gun Control Movement: After Parkland (2018).
Hanno Fenech, People, Politics, and Perception: The Rise of Anti-Immigration Parties in Western Democracies (2017).
Anastazia Vanisko, Mobilizing Alliances Within the Women’s March (2017).
Olivia Ortega, The Sanctuary Movement of the 1980s: Unique Social Activism and Strategies for Justice Advocacy (2016).
Alexandra Klyachkina, An Opening in the Pathway to the Top: A Comparative Analysis of the Route to the Executive in Chile and Argentina (2011).
Kenley Jones, Missing Links, Solid Chains: Civic Participation and Government Responses to Human Trafficking in El Salvador (2010).
Kevin Reuning, Brewing Populism: The Formation of the Tea Party (2010).
SELECTED SENIOR THESIS SUPERVISION (The College of Wooster)
Marco Garcia, Hay Diferencias? Do Latino Representatives Vote Differently from Other Members of Congress? (2006)
Patricia L. Ross, Italy’s Procurato aborto and Ireland’s Ginmihilleahd: Comparative Abortion Legislation in Western Europe (2006)
Christopher Billow, Presidential Success in Congress: The Myth of Second-Term Failure (2005)
Douglas Palmer, Hard-Fought and Low-Key US Senate Competition, 1998-2004 (2005)
Lisa Basalla, A Progress Report on the Impact of the Transnational Women’s Movement on National Legislation Addressing Violence Against Women (2003)
Anna Jenks, The Citizen and the Democratic State: An Examination of the Effect That Decreasing Voter Turnout Has on Public Policy (2000)
Benjamin Mizer, Once Upon a Lawsuit: Narrative Coherence and Legal Metaplots in the Microsoft Antitrust Case (1999)
Jason Mycoff, An Alternative View of PAC Contributions and Senators’ Behavior (1997)
Leslie E. Potts, “La France Pour Tous Ou La France Surtout?” The Role of Nationalism in French Political Parties (1996; Political Science, Double Major with French) Karen Beckwith 30
Erin Cross, The Construction of Identity: The Effects of Defining the Personal and Collective ‘Self’ in the German and American Feminist Movements (1995; Political Science, Double Major with History)
Laurie E. Naranch, Elite Gender Differences: Female Legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives (1992)
Melanie Green, Response of the People: The Sanctuary Movement (1989; Political Science, Double Major with Spanish)
Jennifer Allison, Clean Hearts and Dirty Minds: A Feminist Looks at the Pornography Debate (1985; Special Major in Women’s Studies; Winner, Turner History Prize)