I am an associate professor at Appalachian State University in the Department of Government and Justice Studies and a standing faculty member of the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies program. I received a Ph.D. in Political Science and Women's Studies from The Pennsylvania State University. Previously, I held positions at Louisiana State University, University of Mississippi, the College of Wooster and Wichita State University.
My research and teaching fall at the intersection of mass political behavior and identity politics in the United States. My research is concerned with dynamic political processes and covers a wide variety of topics in political behavior, including political participation, political knowledge, voting, partisanship, and political attitudes. In my research, I examine how gender acts both as an individual identity and a social institution shaping men's and women's political behavior in the aggregate and at the individual-level. My interest in identity politics has expanded to include how other political and social identities intersect with gender to influence individual-level behavior. I have several projects on how gender shapes the electorate's reactions to candidates for office and how gender influences the emergence and success of female candidates. I am also interested in dynamic processes of social movements and how the women's movement has shaped our attitudes about gender. I regularly teach an introductory class on American government, public opinion and political psychology, gender and politics, and research methods.
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