Barbara Burrell (PhD, University of Michigan) is Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Public Opinion Laboratory at Northern Illinois University. She is author of A Woman's Place Is in the House: Campaigning for Congress in the Feminist Era (University of Michigan Press, 1994), and Public Opinion, the First Ladyship and Hillary Rodham Clinton (Routledge, 2001).
Susan J. Carroll is Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, and Senior Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) of the Eagleton Institute of Politics. She is author of Women as Candidates in American Politics, 2nd ed. (Indiana University Press, 1994); editor of The Impact of Women in Public Office (Indiana University Press, 2001) and Women and American Politics: New Questions, New Directions (Oxford University Press, 2003); and co-editor of Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Margaret E. Farrar is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Augustana College, where she teaches courses in political theory and women's studies. Her current research focuses on the politics of public space: how cities are made more or less democratic through urban planning discourses. She is finishing her book Building the Body Politic: Power, Subjectivity, and Urban Space, which will be published by the University of Illinois Press.
Miki Caul Kittilson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on women and politics, and political participation. She is the author of Challenging Parties, Changing Parliaments: Women and Elected Office in Contemporary Western Europe (Ohio State University Press, 2006), and has published articles in journals such as International Organization, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Politics & Gender, the American Review of Politics, and Party Politics.
Mona Lena Krook is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women and Gender Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She completed her doctoral dissertation, entitled “Politicizing Representation: Campaigns for Candidate Gender Quotas Worldwide,” at Columbia University in 2004. In 2004–2005, she was a British Economic and Social Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bristol. Her research has been published in the European Journal of Political Research; Politics & Gender; British Politics (with Judith Squires); Politics (with Sarah Childs); and Women, Quotas, and Politics, edited by Drude Dahlerup (Routledge, 2006).
Susan A. MacManus is the Distinguished University Professor of Public Administration and Political Science at the University of South Florida. Her research on women in politics—candidates, office holders, activists, voters—has been published in numerous books and articles. She is the author of Young v. Old: Generational Combat in the 21st Century (Westview Press, 1996); Targeting Senior Voters: Campaign Outreach to Elders and Others With Special Needs (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000); and co-author, with Thomas R. Dye, of Politics in States and Communities, 12th ed. (Prentice-Hall, 2006).
Dyan Mazurana is Director of Gender, Youth and Conflict at the Feinstein International Famine Center, Tufts University. Her work focuses on the affects of armed conflict on civilian populations, women's rights during and after conflict, youth and armed conflict, and peacekeeping. Her latest publications include After the Taliban: Life and Security in Rural Afghanistan (Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming); Where are the Girls? Girls in Fighting Forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Mozambique (Rights and Democracy, 2004); and Gender, Conflict and Peacekeeping (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).
Eric Plutzer, Professor of Political Science at the Pennsylvania State University, has written extensively on how gender, work, and family influence various political behaviors (policy preferences, voter turnout, vote choice, and class and party identification). He recently published, with Michael Berkman, Ten Thousand Democracies: Politics and Public Opinion in America's School Districts (Georgetown University Press, 2005). Currently, he is working with Julianna Sandell on completing a study of how economic disadvantage and major family transitions during adolescence influence voter turnout years later.
Kira Sanbonmatsu is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and Senior Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. She is the author of Where Women Run: Gender and Party in the American States (University of Michigan Press, 2006), and Democrats, Republicans, and the Politics of Women's Place (University of Michigan Press, 2002). Her research interests include gender, race/ethnicity, parties, public opinion, and state politics.
Kay Lehman Schlozman serves as J. Joseph Moakley Endowed Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Among her writings in American politics are Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics (with Sidney Verba and Henry E. Brady; Harvard University Press, 1995), and, most recently, The Private Roots of Public Action: Gender, Equality, and Political Participation (with Nancy Burns and Sidney Verba; Harvard University Press, 2001).
Wendy Smooth is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Political Science, and a faculty affiliate with the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Ohio State University. Her research and teaching focus on women's experiences in political institutions and the impact of public policies on women's lives. She is completing a book entitled Power and Influence: The Impact of Race and Gender in American State Legislatures.
Jessica K. Taft is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her research interests include girls' studies, social movements, globalization, feminist theory, and political consciousness. She is currently writing her dissertation, a multi-site political ethnography of teenage girl activists in the Americas and their participation in social movements.
Jamie L. Warner is Associate Professor of Political Science at Marshall University, where she teaches courses in political theory. Her current research centers on the subversive potential of humor and parody and their function in a democratic public sphere. She is the author of “Political Culture Jamming: The Dissident Humor of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” forthcoming in Popular Communication.
