LISA BALDEZ Departments of Government and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies Dartmouth College 6108 Silsby Hall / Hanover NH 03755 603.646.0762 / 603.646.2152 [email protected] EDUCATION 1997 Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Political Science 1992 M.A., University of California, San Diego, Political Science 1986 B.A., Princeton University, cum laude in Politics and Latin American Studies ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Dartmouth College Professor, Government and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies, 2014- Cheheyl Professor and Director, Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL), 2015-2018 Associate Professor, Government and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies 2003-2014 Harvard University Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Spring 2003 Washington University Harbison Faculty Fellow, 1999-2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 1997-2003 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, May 2003 Harvard University Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Summer 1999 University of Rochester Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, Spring 1997 Research Associate, Department of Political Science, 1994-1997 Rochester Institute of Technology Adjunct Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, Spring 1997 University of California, San Diego Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, 1989-1993 BOOKS Defying Convention: US Resistance to the UN Treaty on Women’s Rights, Cambridge University Press, 2014. Winner of 2015 Victoria Schuck Award for Best Book on Women in Politics, American Political Science Association and 2015 Award for Best book on human rights, American Political Science Association. Reviewed: • Eileen Boris on H-Diplo, July 2015. • Martha Davis, Journal of Human Rights 15, 4 (2016): 571-573. • Wendy Brien, Academic Council of the United Nations (ACUNS) 6 December 2016. • Lana Obradovic, International Feminist Journal of Politics 17, 3 (2015): 515-517. • Jocelyn Olcott, Journal of American Studies 15, 4 (2017): 1295-1297. Political Women and American Democracy: Critical Perspectives on Women and Politics Research, Christina Wolbrecht, Karen Beckwith and Lisa Baldez, eds. Cambridge University Press, 2008. Why Women Protest: Women’s Movements in Chile. New York: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Series in Comparative Politics. 2002. ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS “What’s at Stake in the Reporting Process: Cuba and the United Nations’ Convention on Women’s Rights,” Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought 8, 3 (October 2018): 405-421. • Reprinted in Debra L. DeLaet and Reneé Ann Cramer, editors, Gender, Sexuality, and the Law (Routledge, April 2019) ISBN 978-0-367-21923-9 "Quotas and Qualifications: The Impact of Gender Quota Laws on the Qualifications of Legislators in the Italian Parliament," with Ana Catalano Weeks, European Political Science Review 7, 1 (February 2015): 119 – 144. “The Gender Lacuna in Comparative Politics.” Perspectives on Politics 8, 1 (March 2010): 199-205. “Primaries vs. Quotas: Gender and Candidate Nominations in Mexico.” Latin American Politics and Society 49,4 (Fall 2007): 69-96. “Does the U.S. Constitution Need an Equal Rights Amendment?” Coauthored with Lee Epstein and Andrew D. Martin. The Journal of Legal Studies 35, 1 (2006): 243-283. “Constitutional Sex Discrimination," Coauthored with Lee Epstein, Andrew D. Martin, and Tasina Nitzschke Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy, 1,1(Fall 2004): 11-68. “Elected Bodies: Gender Quota Laws for Legislative Candidates in Mexico,” Legislative Studies Quarterly 29,2 (May 2004): 231-58. Winner, Best Article, American Political Science Association, Comparative Democratization Section, 2004. “Women’s Movements and Democratic Transition in Brazil, Chile, East Germany and Poland,” Comparative Politics 35(3), April 2003: 253-272. Reprinted as Chapter Four in Women, Gender, and Politics: A Reader. Edited by Mona Lena Krook and Sarah Childs. Oxford University Press, 2010. “Coalition Politics and the Limits of State Feminism.” Women and Politics (22)4:1-36. 2001. “Presidential Agenda Control and Spending Policy: Lessons From General Pinochet's Constitution.” Co- authored with John M. Carey. American Journal of Political Science 43(1):29-55. January 1999. 2 BOOK CHAPTERS, BOOK REVIEWS & NON-REFEREED ARTICLES “Signing, Negotiating, Opting Out, and Starting Over: A New Approach to Approval of Human Rights Treaties,” (review essay), The Global Justice and Human Rights Journal Review, accepted for publication. “Transforming Teaching Amid the Coronavirus,” Public Books, May 1, 2020. “The U.S. Might Ratify the ERA. What would change?” Washington Post, January 23, 2020. “Ratification of Human Rights Treaties in the United States,” in Lucrecia Garcia Iommi and Richard W. Maass, eds. The United States and International Law: Paradoxes of Support Across Contemporary Issues, University of Michigan Press, accepted for publication and forthcoming 2021. “Treaty Supremacy: Rule of Politics Over Rule of Law?” Review Essay, Tulsa Law Review 54, 2 (Winter 2019): 211-223. “Tacking Between the Global and the Local: A Reply to DeLaet and Bunting.” Global Discourse 8, 3 (2018): 441-443. “Why Not Amend CEDAW?” The Gender Policy Report November 28, 2018 (https://genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/why-not-amend-cedaw/) Review of For a Proper Home: Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960-2010. By Edward Murphy. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. 360pp. Americas 73, 1 (January 2016): 117-8. Review of Selecting Women, Electing Women: Political Representation and Candidate Selection in Latin America. By Magda Hinojosa. Temple University Press, 2012. Journal of Politics 75, 2 (April 2013): “The UN Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW): A New Way to Measure Women’s Interests.” Politics & Gender 7(3) 2011:1-6. “Gender.” Handbook of Latin American Politics. Edited by Deborah Yashar and Peter Kingstone. Routledge Press, 2012. "Forward." The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America: A Reader on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual, and Transgender Rights, Javier Corrales and Mario Pecheny, eds. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. “Cuotas versus Primarias: la nominación de candidatas mujeres en México." In Han funcionado las cuotas en América Latina? El impacto de la representación política de las mujeres, Marcela Rios ed. Santiago: FLACSO, 2008: 157-77. “Political Women and Comparative Democracies: A Primer for Americanists.” In Political Women and American Democracy: Critical Perspectives on Women and Politics Research, Christina Wolbrecht, Karen Beckwith and Lisa Baldez, eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 3 167-180. “The Pros and Cons of Gender Quota Laws: What Happens When You Kick Men Out and Let Women In?” Politics & Gender 2, 1 (March 2006): 102-109. ¿Cuánto hemos avanzado las mujeres con las cuotas? El caso boliviano.” Co-authored with Patricia Brañez. In Nadando contra la corriente: cuotas de género en los Andes, Magdalena León, ed. Bogotá, Colombia: Editores Tercer Mundo, 2005, 141-168. “Gendered Opportunities and the Formation of Women's Movements in the U.S. and Chile,” With Celeste Montoya. In The U.S. Women's Movement Global Perspective, Lee Ann Banaszak, ed. Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006: 133-150. “Nonpartisanship as a Political Strategy: Women on the Left, Right and Center in Chile.” In Radical Women in Latin America: Right and Left, Victoria Gonzalez and Karen Kampwirth, eds. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001, PAGES. “Budget Procedure and Fiscal Restraint in Post-Transition Chile.” Co-authored with John M. Carey. In Presidents, Parliaments, and Policy, Mathew D. McCubbins and Stephan Haggard, eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. GRANTS AND AWARDS Midwest Women’s Caucus for Political Science Outstanding Professional Achievement Award, Midwest Political Science Association, 2019. See Member Profile at https://blog.mpsanet.org/2019/03/04/mpsa-member-profile-lisa-baldez/ Dartmouth College, Jack E. Thomas 1974 Family Fellowship Dartmouth College, Senior Faculty Research Grant, 2007 Dartmouth College, Linda B. and Kendrick R. Wilson III 1969 Fellowship for teaching and research, 2005-2006 Dartmouth College, Rockefeller Center Faculty Grant for Course Enhancement, Fall 2005 Dartmouth College, Dickey Center for International Understanding, Grant for Course Enhancement, Fall 2005 Dartmouth College, Rockefeller Center Faculty Grant for Course Enhancement to conduct poster session for “State and Society in Latin America,” with John Carey, Spring 2004 Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Faculty Course-Based Field Trip Grant for travel to Mexico City, April 2002 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Women and Politics, Honorable Mention, for “Elected Bodies: Gender Quota Laws for Legislative Candidates,” comparative study of gender quota laws in Latin America, 2002 Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy, Faculty Research Grant for research in Bolivia, Costa Rica and Mexico, April 2002 Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy, Grant for Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2002-3 Washington University International Activities Grant for Course Enhancement, “Latin American Politics,” 2001 Harbison Faculty Fellowship (for a Junior Faculty member at Washington University), 1999-2002 Washington University International Activities Grant for New Course