I became interested in studying women and politics while in college. After graduation, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to spend a year in Finland researching women's access to political office in Scandinavia.
When I returned for graduate school in the U.S., I expanded my focus to quota policies aimed at increasing the number of female candidates. Fascinated by their global diffusion, my work combines cross-case comparisons with attention to the international and transnational dimensions of quota reform.
My teaching seeks to bring together all of these concerns, emphasizing gender as much as politics and the local and national as much as the international and transnational.
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