2010-2019 | RU Women & Politics

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Dissertations 2010-2019

There were 23 dissertations published from 2010-2019.

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2010

Wairimu R. Njoya

Dignity amidst devastation: Politics, aesthetics and the slave sublime.

Advisor: Drucilla Cornell, Cynthia R. Daniels

2010

Nadia Elizabeth Brown

The intersection of race and gender on representation: Black women legislators' impact on legislation.

Advisor: Susan J. Carroll, Jane Junn

2011

Nichole Shippen

The colonization of time: Production, consumption, and leisure.

Advisor: Stephen Bronner

2012

Kelly Dittmar

Campaigns as gendered institutions: Stereotypes and strategy in statewide races.

Advisor: Susan J. Carroll, Kira Sanbonmatsu

2012

Brittany L. Stalsburg

Voting for Mom or Dad: How Parenthood Affects Political Candidacy.

Advisor: Susan J. Carroll, Kira Sanbonmatsu

2012

Adryan R. Wallace

Transforming production roles into political inclusion: A comparative study of Hausa women's agency through civil society organizations in Kano, Nigeria, and Tamale, Ghana.

Advisor: Barbara Callaway

2013

Joseph de la Torre Dwyer

Cuba: A materialist-feminist perspective on the socialist project.

Advisor: Mary Hawkesworth

2013

Erin Allyson Heidt-Forsythe

Reconceiving the state: Morals, markets, and state regulation of assisted reproductive technologies.

Advisor: Cynthia R. Daniels

2013

Tessa Ditonto

The effects of candidate appearance on information search and political behavior in political campaigns.

Advisor: Rick Lau

2013

Anna Mitchell Mahoney

The politics of women's legislative caucuses.

Advisor: Kira Sanbonmatsu

2014

Sara Angevine

Women's rights foreign policy in the US Congress: Policy objectives, congressional motivations, and the role of policy entrepreneurs.

Advisor: Susan J. Carroll

2014

Christina Louise Doonan

The sexual politics of humanitarian regulation.

Advisor: Mary Hawkesworth

2015

Dana Marie Brown

Parties matter: The impact of Pennsylvania's parties on women's local officeholding.

Advisor: Kira Sanbonmatsu

2016

Stephanie Szitanyi

Degendering and regendering: Contemporary gender trouble in the United States military.

Advisor: Mary Hawkesworth

2016

Ashley Koning

(Grand Old) Party crashers: The effects of Republican atypical issue advocacy and cross-pressure framing on party opinion change.

Advisor: David Redlawsk

2017

Janna Ferguson

International institutions and the making of remittances: Gendered inclusions and exclusions.

Advisor: Cynthia R. Daniels

2017

Grace Elizabeth Howard

The Criminalization of Pregnancy: Rights, Discretion, and the Law.

Advisor: Cynthia R. Daniels

2017

Amanda M. Roberti

'Women Deserve Better': Pro-Woman Issue Framing of Regulatory Abortion Policy in the States.

Advisor: Cynthia R. Daniels

2018

Aiisha Michele Harden Russell

Bringing Gender to the Forefront: The Campaign Strategies of Black Women and Men Candidates in American Politics.

Advisor: Kira Sanbonmatsu

2018

Juliana Restrepo Sanin

Violence Against Women in Politics in Latin America.

Advisor: Mona Lena Krook

2019

Mary Nugent

When does he speak for she? Men representing women in parliament.a

Advisor: Mona Lena Krook

2019

Catherine Wineinger

Gendering the GOP: Intraparty Politics and Republican Women's Representation in Congress.

Advisor: Susan J. Carroll, Kira Sanbonmatsu

2019

Heather James

Still Running Backwards and in High Heels: Female Candidate Fundraising Process, Perception, and Challenges in the 50 States.

Advisor: Kira Sanbonmatsu

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