CAWP home pageFacts and findingsNew Jersey programs and informationWhat's NewsPrograms at CAWPAbout CAWP, mission statement, directions etc.Links to other web sites on women and politics, general politics etc.


>  Join Our
    Alert List

 

  

CAWP Funded Research

In 2001, CAWP provided research stipends to a small group of faculty engaged in research about women’s political participation. The initial papers resulting from their work will be available here as they are completed.
  
  Playing ‘Femball’: Conservative Women’s Organizations and Political Representation in the United States
   written by Ronnee Schreiber
Ronnee Schreiber is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at San Diego State University. During 2001-2002, Schreiber was a visiting scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. This article on her research about conservative women's organization was published in Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists Around the World (Routledge, 2002). To order the book, visit Amazon here and help support CAWP.
 
  Candidate Recruitment and Women's Election to the State Legislatures
   written by Kira Sanbonmatsu

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 received her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She was previously Associate Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University. Her research interests include gender, race/ethnicity, parties, public opinion, and state politics. She is serving as co-chair of the 2007 Midwest Political Science Association conference. She co-edits the CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics at the University of Michigan Press with Susan J. Carroll.

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 articles have appeared in such journals as American Journal of Political Science, Politics & Gender, and Party Politics.

 
  Gender, Political Ambition, and the Initial Decision to Run for Office
   written by Richard L. Fox
Richard L. Fox is associate professor of political science at Union College in Schenectady, New York. His research interests include Congress, political parties and interest groups, media and politics, and women and politics. The author of Gender Dynamics in Congressional Elections (Sage, 1997), Fox earned his Ph.D. in political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
 
  Women's Evolving Role in Tribal Politics: Native Women Leaders in 21 Southwestern Indian Nations
   written by Diane-Michelle Prindeville
Diane-Michelle Prindeville is an assistant professor in the Department of Government at New Mexico State University. Her teaching and research have focused on women and politics, Latina and American Indian women leaders, environmental politics, and globalization. The author of numerous book chapters and journal articles, she earned her Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico.
 
   
 

  

email webmaster with technical questions or problems

© Copyright 1995-2007  Center for American Women and Politics
Eagleton Institute of Politics
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
191 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8557
(732) 932-9384 - Fax: (732) 932-0014



 

 

 

CAWP home page