Bio

Welcome! I am a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics in the Department of Politics, Languages, & International Studies at the University of Bath. Before joining Bath, I was a College Fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University and a Research Fellow in the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) at the Harvard Kennedy School. I have a PhD in Political Science from Harvard University, an MSc in Comparative Politics (Europe) from the LSE, and an AB in Government from Dartmouth College. 

My research interests include gender and politics, political representation, and political parties, with a regional concentration in Western Europe. My book, Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy, was published in June of 2022 as part of Cambridge University Press' Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics series. My research has appeared in journals including American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Comparative Political StudiesEuropean Political Science Review, and Political Behavior.

My paper on "The Political Consequences of the Mental Load" is the recipient of the 2023 Best Paper Award for the best paper on women, gender, and politics at the previous year’s APSA conference (APSA Women, Gender and Politics research section) and the 2020 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics. This survey-based research sheds new light on often hidden gender gaps in cognitive household labor and how this "mental load" impacts men's and women's political engagement. You can read a working paper under publications / research.

My article, "Why Are Gender Quota Laws Adopted by Men? The Role of Inter- and Intraparty Competition", is the recipient of the 2018 Pi Sigma Alpha / Franklin L. Burdette Prize for the best paper presented at the previous year’s meeting of the American Political Science Association, and the 2018 Sage Award for the best paper developing or applying qualitative methods presented at the previous year's meeting from the APSA Qualitative and Multi-Method Research section. You can read a short article about the research from Maclean's here.

My Google Scholar page is here

 

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