• Harvard University, Visiting Fellow, Department of Government (2003- 2008)
• National Science Foundation, E.I.T.M. Summer Institute (2005)
• Olin Fellow, Salvatori Center, Claremont McKenna College (1999 - 2002)
• Claremont Graduate University, Student Grant for Summer Research (2001)
• Claremont Graduate University, Fellowship, School of Politics and Economics (1999 - 2002)
• University of Pennsylvania, Fellowship, Department of Political Science (1998, 1999)
• Boston University, Merit Award for Outstanding Scholarship (1994, 1995)

DISSERTATION TITLE: Democracy and Household Organization

DISSERTATION COMMITTEE: Dr. Thomas Borcherding, Chair, Dr. Arthur Denzau, Dr. Jennifer Merolla

TEACHING POSITIONS:

• Teaching Fellow, Justice, Dr. Michael Sandel, Harvard University, Fall 2005, Spring 2006.
• Teaching Fellow, Sex, Gender and Political Theory, Dr. Tamara Metz, Harvard University, Fall 2005.
• Teaching Assistant, American Politics, Dr. Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 1999.
• Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Political Science, Dr. Rudra Sil, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 1998.

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

• Science and the Moral Imperative in Hobbes’ Leviathan, Claremont Graduate University, Conference March 2001, Claremont, California.

• Social Capital and the Elasticity of Exit Behavior in Federal Regimes, poster session, Midwestern Political Science Association Conference, March 2003, Chicago, Illinois.

• Progressive Reforms and Court Responses, co-author, Pamela Fiber, presented at the Midwestern Political Science Association Conference, March 2003, Chicago, Illinois.

• Separation Anxiety: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Separatist Movements, presented at the Midwestern Political Science Association Conference, April 2004, Chicago, Illinois.

• The Gender Gap in Political Preferences: (Why) Does it Disappear in Retirement? presented at the annual conference of the International Studies Association West, November 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada.

• Aging and Cohort Effects in the Gender Gap in Political Preferences, presented at the annual conference of the Northeastern Political Science Association, November 2004, Boston, Massachusetts.

• Measuring Partisanship in Post-Soviet Russia, co-author, George Soroka, presented at the annual conference of the Midwestern Political Science Conference, March 2005, Chicago, Illinois.

• Household Demographic Change in Developed Democracies: A Comparative Perspective, presented at the annual conference of the Midwestern Political Science Conference, April 2007, Chicago, Illinois. 

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS:

”Partisanship in Post Soviet Russia”, co-author George Soroka.

“Separatist Movements: The Case of South Tyrol”, co-author Eugen Lamprecht.

”Does the Exception Prove the Rule? Ideology and Campaign Finance Reform”, co-author Pamela Fiber.

AFFILIATIONS:

American Political Science Association

Midwestern Political Science Association

Association of American University Women

REFERENCES:

Dr. Thomas Borcherding

Department of Economics, Claremont Graduate University

Tel. (909) 621- 8783

thomas_borcherding@cgu.edu

Dr. Tamara Metz

Department of Political Science, Reed University

Tel. (503) 777- 7776

tmetz@reed.edu