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Welcome! I'm an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Kentucky.
My research is in the field of Comparative Politics with an emphasis on gender and politics, Latin America, and comparative political institutions. I employ both quantitative and qualitative research approaches to examine how institutions shape political behavior. I completed my Ph.D. in Political Science at Rice University in 2012, where my dissertation won the John W. Gardner Award for Best Dissertation in the Social Sciences and Humanities at Rice University.
With the support of research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Ora N. Arnold Fellowship, and the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences, I conducted extensive fieldwork at the subnational level in Argentina. I spent over 20 months in Argentina, visited 19 of the country’s 24 provinces, collected archival data, and conducted over 200 interviews with legislators and other elite political observers. My fieldwork in Argentina resulted in a large dataset that I used to write multiple peer-reviewed articles and a Cambridge University Press book, Gendering Legislative Behavior: Institutional Constraints and Collaboration. My book was awarded the Alan Rosenthal Prize for the best book or article written by a junior scholar that has potential to strengthening the practice of representative democracy, by the American Political Science Association Legislative Studies Section. In 2013 I was a Research Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
My other peer-reviewed research appears in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Governance, Politics & Gender, Election Law Journal, Journal of Women, Politics, & Policy, and PS: Political Science & Politics. In 2017 I won the Sophonisba Breckinridge Award from the Midwest Political Science Association for a paper co-authored with Abby Córdova. I was also awarded the Marian Irish Award in 2017 from the Southern Political Science Association for a paper I co-authored with Erin Cassese. Additionally, I have won over $100,000 in grants and fellowships to support my research.
In 2017 I was honored to receive the Early Career Award from the Midwest Women's Caucus for Political Science. The award recognizes a junior (pre-tenure) female faculty member based upon her research accomplishments and contribution to the discipline.
I am also committed to the advancement of women and under-represented groups in the discipline. I am currently the president-elect for the Midwest Women's Caucus. Previously, from 2012 to 2016, I served as the newsletter editor for the Midwest Women's Caucus. The mission of the women's caucus is to promote professional equity for women in the discipline of political science. In the Spring of 2015, my colleague Emily Beaulieu and I hosted Visions in Methodology at the University of Kentucky. VIM is dedicated to supporting women who study political methodology. In Spring 2014, Emily Beaulieu, Yanna Krupnikov, and I conducted an impact assessment of the program for the Political Methodologist Newsletter. In the fall of 2014, I joined Ashley Leeds, Mike Alvarez, and Leslie Schwindt-Bayer in writing an Oxford University Press blog post on the importance of mentoring. In the summer of 2016 Leslie Schwindt-Bayer and I co-hosted the Women/Diversity Welcome Dinner at the 33rd annual meeting of the Society for Political Methodology at Rice University in Houston, Texas. The dinner is intended to promote diverse representation at the Polmeth conference. At the University of Kentucky, I am an active member in WiPS (Women in Political Science), an association that provides female graduate students with information, support, mentorship, and advocacy here at UK. Follow us on twitter @kentuckyWIPS to learn more about women in political science at UK.
With the support of research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Ora N. Arnold Fellowship, and the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences, I conducted extensive fieldwork at the subnational level in Argentina. I spent over 20 months in Argentina, visited 19 of the country’s 24 provinces, collected archival data, and conducted over 200 interviews with legislators and other elite political observers. My fieldwork in Argentina resulted in a large dataset that I used to write multiple peer-reviewed articles and a Cambridge University Press book, Gendering Legislative Behavior: Institutional Constraints and Collaboration. My book was awarded the Alan Rosenthal Prize for the best book or article written by a junior scholar that has potential to strengthening the practice of representative democracy, by the American Political Science Association Legislative Studies Section. In 2013 I was a Research Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
My other peer-reviewed research appears in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Governance, Politics & Gender, Election Law Journal, Journal of Women, Politics, & Policy, and PS: Political Science & Politics. In 2017 I won the Sophonisba Breckinridge Award from the Midwest Political Science Association for a paper co-authored with Abby Córdova. I was also awarded the Marian Irish Award in 2017 from the Southern Political Science Association for a paper I co-authored with Erin Cassese. Additionally, I have won over $100,000 in grants and fellowships to support my research.
In 2017 I was honored to receive the Early Career Award from the Midwest Women's Caucus for Political Science. The award recognizes a junior (pre-tenure) female faculty member based upon her research accomplishments and contribution to the discipline.
I am also committed to the advancement of women and under-represented groups in the discipline. I am currently the president-elect for the Midwest Women's Caucus. Previously, from 2012 to 2016, I served as the newsletter editor for the Midwest Women's Caucus. The mission of the women's caucus is to promote professional equity for women in the discipline of political science. In the Spring of 2015, my colleague Emily Beaulieu and I hosted Visions in Methodology at the University of Kentucky. VIM is dedicated to supporting women who study political methodology. In Spring 2014, Emily Beaulieu, Yanna Krupnikov, and I conducted an impact assessment of the program for the Political Methodologist Newsletter. In the fall of 2014, I joined Ashley Leeds, Mike Alvarez, and Leslie Schwindt-Bayer in writing an Oxford University Press blog post on the importance of mentoring. In the summer of 2016 Leslie Schwindt-Bayer and I co-hosted the Women/Diversity Welcome Dinner at the 33rd annual meeting of the Society for Political Methodology at Rice University in Houston, Texas. The dinner is intended to promote diverse representation at the Polmeth conference. At the University of Kentucky, I am an active member in WiPS (Women in Political Science), an association that provides female graduate students with information, support, mentorship, and advocacy here at UK. Follow us on twitter @kentuckyWIPS to learn more about women in political science at UK.
