Reading List on Gender and Race Equality in Political Science – Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession

Academic Articles on Gender and Race Equality in Political Science

This list was compiled by Amy Erica Smith, with assistance from Carlos Santos-Rivera, Irmgard Stiehl-Figueroa, and Alexandria Hoskins, and edited by Mala Htun.

Notes: This list only contains academic articles and books (e.g.., ones published in academic journals or by academic presses), and articles focused on the discipline of political science. Some articles appear in more than one category.

Hiring, Tenure, Careers, and Faculty Composition

Anonymous. 2014. “No Shortcuts to Gender Equality: The Structures of Women’s Exclusion in Political Science.” Politics & Gender10(3): 437–47.

APSA Presidential Task Force. Political Science in the 21^st Century. Washington, D.C.: American Political Science Association, 2011.

Ackelsberg, Martha, Georgia Duerst-Lahti, Jane Junn, Laura Van Assendelft, and Bang-Soon Yoon. “Remembering the “life” in academic life: Finding a balance between work and personal responsibilities in the academy.” PS: Political Science & Politics 37, no. 4 (2004): 879-883.

Ards, S., Brintnall, M., & Woodard, M. 1997. “The Road to Tenure and Beyond for African American Political Scientists.” The Journal of Negro Education, 66(2), 159-171.

Assendelft, Laura, Page Fortna, Claudine Gay, and Kira Sanbonmatsu. 2019. “‘Would I Do This All Over Again? Mid-Career Voices in Political Science.’” APSA Preprints. doi: 10.33774/apsa-2019-76m98.

Assendelft, Laura van, Wendy Gunther-Canada, and Julie Dolan. 2001. “The Status of Women in Political Science Departments in the South: Results of the Millennium Survey.” PS: Political Science & Politics34(2): 333–38.

Atchison, Amy L. 2018. “Towards the Good Profession: Improving the Status of Women in Political Science.” European Journal of Politics and Gender1(1–2): 279–98.

Barnes, Tiffany D., and Emily Beaulieu. 2017. “Engaging Women: Addressing the Gender Gap in Women’s Networking and Productivity.” PS: Political Science & Politics 50(2): 461–66.

Bates, Stephen, Laura Jenkins, and Zoe Pflaeger. 2012. “Women in the Profession: The Composition of UK Political Science Departments by Sex.” Politics 32(3): 139–52.

Bos, Angela L., and Monica C. Schneider. 2012. “New Research on Gender in Political Psychology: Mentoring to Fix the Leaky Pipeline.” PS: Political Science & Politics45(2): 223–31.

Brandes, Lisa et al. 2001. “The Status of Women in Political Science: Female Participation in the Professoriate and the Study of Women and Politics in the Discipline.” PS: Political Science and Politics 34(2): 319–26.

Carey, John M. and Carman, Kevin and Clayton, Katherine and Horiuchi, Yusaku and Htun, Mala N. and Ortiz, Brittany, “Who Wants to Hire a More Diverse Faculty? A Conjoint Analysis of Faculty and Student Preferences for Gender and Racial/Ethnic Diversity,” Politics, Groups, and Identities. Published online November 8, 2018.

Claypool, Vicki Hesli, and Carol Mershon. 2016. “Does Diversity Matter? Evidence from a Survey of Political Science Faculty.” Politics, Groups, and Identities4(3): 483–498.

Claypool, Vicki Hesli, Brian David Janssen, Dongkyu Kim, and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell. 2017. “Determinants of Salary Dispersion among Political Science Faculty: The Differential Effects of Where You Work (Institutional Characteristics) and What You Do (Negotiate and Publish).”PS: Political Science & Politics 50(1): 146–56.

Costa, Monica, and Marian Sawer. 2019. “The Thorny Path to a More Inclusive Discipline.” In Gender Innovation in Political Science: New Norms, New Knowledge, Gender and Politics, eds. Marian Sawer and Kerryn Baker. Cham:Springer International Publishing, 243–75. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75850-3_12 (October 8, 2019).

Curtin, Jennifer. 2015. “Feminist Contributions to New Zealand Political Science.” Women’s Studies Journal; Wellington 29(1): 4–20.

Hesli, Vicki L., and Jae Mook Lee. 2013. “Job Satisfaction in Academia: Why Are Some Faculty Members Happier Than Others?” PS: Political Science and Politics46(2): 339–54.

Hesli, Vicki L., Jae Mook Lee, and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell. 2012. “Predicting Rank Attainment in Political Science: What Else Besides Publications Affects Promotion?” PS: Political Science & Politics 45(3): 475–92.

Hesli, Vicki, and Barbara Burrell. 1995. “Faculty Rank among Political Scientists and Reports on the Academic Environment: The Differential Impact of Gender on Observed Patterns.” PS: Political Science and Politics28(1): 101–11.

Kim, Hannah June, and Bernard Grofman. “Job Mobility, Tenure, and Promotions in Political Science PhD-Granting Departments, 2002–2017: Cohort, Gender, and Citation-Count Effects | PS: Political Science & Politics, 52(4), 684-690.

Kittilson, Miki Caul. 2015. “Advancing Women in Political Science: Navigating Gendered Structures of Opportunity.” PS: Political Science & Politics48(3): 450–53.

Maliniak, Daniel, Amy Oakes, Susan Peterson, and Michael J. Tierney. 2008. “Women in International Relations.” Politics & Gender4(1): 122–44.

Mershon, Carol, and Denise Walsh. 2016. “Diversity in Political Science: Why It Matters and How to Get It.” Politics, Groups, and Identities4(3): 462–66.

Mitchell, Sara McLaughlin, and Vicki L. Hesli. 2013. “Women Don’t Ask? Women Don’t Say No? Bargaining and Service in the Political Science Profession.” PS: Political Science & Politics 46(2): 355–69.

Monforti, Jessica Lavariega, and Melissa R. Michelson. 2008. “Diagnosing the Leaky Pipeline: Continuing Barriers to the Retention of Latinas and Latinos in Political Science.” PS: Political Science & Politics41(1): 161–66.

Monroe, Kristen Renwick et al. 2014. “Gender Equality in the Ivory Tower, and How Best to Achieve It.” PS: Political Science & Politics47(2): 418–26.

Novkov, Julie, and Scott Barclay. 2010. “Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and the Transgendered in Political Science: Report on a Discipline-Wide Survey.” PS: Political Science & Politics43(1): 95–106.

Pyke, Karen. 2011. “Service and Gender Inequity among Faculty.”PS: Political Science & Politics 44(1): 85–87.

Reid, Rebecca A., and Todd A. Curry. 2019. “Are We There Yet? Addressing Diversity in Political Science Subfields.” PS: Political Science & Politics52(2): 281–86.

Sawer, Marian, and Jennifer Curtin. 2016. “Organising for a More Diverse Political Science: Australia and New Zealand.” European Political Science15(4): 441–56.

Sinclair-Chapman, Valeria. “Rebounding on the Tenure Track: Carving Out a Place of Your Own in the Academy.” PS: Political Science & Politics 52, no. 1 (2019): 52-56.

Smooth, Wendy G. 2016. “Intersectionality and Women’s Advancement in the Discipline and across the Academy.” Politics, Groups, and Identities4(3): 513–528

Publishing and Authorship

Breuning, Marijke, and Kathryn Sanders. 2007. “Gender and Journal Authorship in Eight Prestigious Political Science Journals.” PS: Political Science and Politics 40(2): 347–51.

Breuning, Marijke, Benjamin Isaak Gross, Ayal Feinberg, Melissa Martinez, Ramesh Sharma, and John Ishiyama. 2018. “Clearing the Pipeline? Gender and the Review Process at the American Political Science Review.”PS: Political Science & Politics 51 (3): 629-634.

Brown, Nadia E., and David Samuels. 2018. “Introduction to Gender in the Journals, Continued: Evidence from Five Political Science Journals.” PS: Political Science & Politics51(4): 847–48.

Nadia Brown, Yusaku Horiuchi, Mala Htun, and David Samuels, “Gender Gaps in Perceptions of Political Science Journals.”PS: Political Science and Politics. Published online by Cambridge University Press, 30 August 2019

Djupe, Paul A., Amy Erica Smith, and Anand Edward Sokhey. 2019. “Explaining Gender in the Journals: How Submission Practices Affect Publication Patterns in Political Science.” PS: Political Science & Politics52(1): 71–77.

Evans, Heather K., and A. Moulder. 2011. “Reflecting on a Decade of Women’s Publications in Four Top Political Science Journals.” PS: Political Science & Politics44(4): 793–98.

Evans, Heather K., and Erik P. Bucy. 2010. “The Representation of Women in Publication: An Analysis of Political Communication and the International Journal of Press/Politics.” PS: Political Science & Politics43(2): 295–301.

Hesli, Vicki L., and Jae Mook Lee. 2011. “Faculty Research Productivity: Why Do Some of Our Colleagues Publish More than Others?”PS: Political Science & Politics44(2): 393–408.

König, Thomas, and Guido Ropers. 2018. “Gender and Editorial Outcomes at the American Political Science Review.” PS: Political Science & Politics51(4): 849–53.

Mathews, A. Lanethea, and Kristi Andersen. 2001. “A Gender Gap in Publishing? Women’s Representation in Edited Political Science Books.” PS: Political Science & Politics34(1): 143–47.

Nedal, Dani K., and Daniel H. Nexon. 2018. “Gender in the International Studies Quarterly Review Process.” PS: Political Science & Politics51(4): 859–65.

Østby, Gudrun, Håvard Strand, Ragnhild Nordås, and Nils Petter Gleditsch. 2013. “Gender Gap or Gender Bias in Peace Research? Publication Patterns and Citation Rates for Journal of Peace Research, 1983-2008.” International Studies Perspectives14(4): 493–506.

Peterson, David A. M. 2018. “Author Gender and Editorial Outcomes at Political Behavior.” PS: Political Science & Politics51(4): 866–69.

Pinderhughes, Dianne, and Maryann Kwakwa. “A Virtual Review: Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Diversity in American Political Science Association Publications.” (2017).

Samuels, David. 2018. “Gender and Editorial Outcomes at Comparative Political Studies.” PS: Political Science & Politics51(4): 854–58.

Samuels, David J., and Dawn Teele. 2018. New Medium, Same Story: Gender Gaps in Book Publishing. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. SSRN Scholarly Paper. https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3283107 (October 13, 2019).

Smith, Heather A., and Jérémie Cornut. 2016. “The Status of Women in Canadian Foreign Policy Analysis.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy37(2): 217–33.

Stegmaier, Mary, Barbara Palmer, and Laura van Assendelft. 2011. “Getting on the Board: The Presence of Women in Political Science Journal Editorial Positions.” PS: Political Science & Politics44(4): 799–804.

Teele, Dawn Langan, and Kathleen Thelen. 2017. “Gender in the Journals: Publication Patterns in Political Science.” PS: Political Science & Politics 50(2): 433–47.

Undergraduate and Graduate Curriculum and Educational Experiences

Albaugh, Quinn M. 2017. “The Americanization of Canadian Political Science? The Doctoral Training of Canadian Political Science Faculty.” Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue Canadienne de science politique50(1): 243–62.

Allen, Marcus D., Kea Gordon, and Lanethea Mathews-Gardner. 2008. “2008 APSA Teaching and Learning Track Summaries —Track Three: Diversity, Inclusiveness, and Inequality.” PS: Political Science & Politics 41(3): 615–16.

Allen, Marcus D., and Sherri L. Wallace. “Teaching introduction to American government/politics: What we learn from the visual images in textbooks.” Journal of Political Science Education 6, no. 1 (2010): 1-18.

Alper, Joe, & Gibbons, Ann. 1993. “The pipeline is leaking women all the way along.” Science260(5106), 409-411.

Atchison, Amy L. 2016. “Bringing Women In: Gender Mainstreaming in Introduction to Political Science.” PS: Political Science & Politics49(3): 546–49.

Cassese, Erin C. and Angela L. Bos. 2013. “A Hidden Curriculum? Examining the Gender Content in Introductory-Level Political Science Textbooks.” Politics and Gender, 9 (2).

Cassese, Erin C., Angela L. Bos, and Lauren E. Duncan. 2012. “Integrating Gender into the Political Science Core Curriculum.” PS: Political Science & Politics 45(2): 238–43.

Cassese, Erin C., Mirya R. Holman, Monica C. Schneider, and Angela L. Bos. 2015. “Building a Gender and Methodology Curriculum: Integrated Skills, Exercises, and Practices.” Journal of Political Science Education 11(1): 61–77.

Colgan, Jeff. 2017. “Gender Bias in International Relations Graduate Education? New Evidence from Syllabi.” PS: Political Science & Politics50(2): 456–60.

Diament, Sean M., Adam J. Howat, and Matthew J. Lacombe. 2018. “Gender Representation in the American Politics Canon: An Analysis of Core Graduate Syllabi.” PS: Political Science & Politics51(3): 635–40.

Di Stefano, Christine. 1997. “Integrating Gender into the Political Science Curriculum: Challenges, Pitfalls, and Opportunities.” PS: Political Science and Politics30(2): 204–6.

Eliason, Leslie C. 1997. “Women and Gender in European Politics Courses: Exploring the Scandinavian Welfare States.” PS: Political Science and Politics30(2): 198–99.

Hardt, Heidi, Amy Erica Smith, Hannah June Kim, and Philippe Meister. 2019. “The Gender Readings Gap in Political Science Graduate Training.” The Journal of Politics81(4): 1528–32.

Lori Cox Han, Caroline Heldman. 2019. Teaching Women/Gender and Politics: Current Trends and Challenges. PS: Political Science & Politics 52:03, pages 531-535.

Maliniak, Daniel, Ryan Powers, and Barbara F. Walter. 2013. “The Gender Citation Gap in International Relations.” International Organization67(4): 889–922.

Mazur, Amy G. 2016. “Mainstreaming Gender in Political Science Courses: The Case of Comparative Public Policy.” PS: Political Science & Politics49(3): 562–65.

Mazur, Amy G., and Andrew M. Appleton. 1997. “Mainstreaming Gender Research into the Classroom: Cases from Contemporary Western Europe.” PS: Political Science and Politics30(2): 194–95.

Monforti, Jessica Lavariega, and Adam McGlynn. 2010. “Aquí Estamos? A Survey of Latino Portrayal in Introductory U.S. Government and Politics Textbooks.” PS: Political Science & Politics 43(2): 309–16.

Moore, Sharon E., Sherri L. Wallace, Gina Schack, M. Shelley Thomas, Linda Lewis, Linda Wilson, Shawnise Miller, and Joan D’Antoni. 2010. “Inclusive Teaching Circles: Mechanisms for Creating Welcoming Classrooms.” Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 10(1): 14-27.

Parker, E. Joyce. 1994. “Mainstreaming Gender, Race, and Sexual Orientation in Teaching: A Student’s Point of View.” PS: Political Science and Politics27(4): 722–23.

Phull, Kiran, Gokhan Ciflikli, and Gustav Meibauer. 2019. “Gender and Bias in the International Relations Curriculum: Insights from Reading Lists.” European Journal of International Relations25(2): 383–407.

Smith, Amy Erica, Heidi Hardt, Philippe Meister, and Hannah June Kim. Forthcoming. “Gender, Race, Age, and National Origin Predict Whether Faculty Assign Female-Authored Readings in Graduate Syllabi.” PS: Political Science & Politics: 1–7.

Takeda, Okiyoshi. 2015. “A Forgotten Minority? A Content Analysis of Asian Pacific Americans in Introductory American Government Textbooks.” PS: Political Science & Politics (3): 430–39.

Wallace, Sherri L., and Marcus D. Allen. “Affirmative Action Debates in American Government Introductory Textbooks.” Journal of Black Studies 47, no. 7 (2016): 659-681.

Wallace, Sherri L., and Marcus D. Allen. 2008. “Survey of African American Portrayal in Introductory Textbooks in American Government/Politics: A Report of the APSA Standing Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession.” PS: Political Science & Politics 41(1): 153–60.

Wallace, Sherri L., and Dewey M. Clayton. “Introductory Political Science Textbooks: Are They Inclusive of African American Politics?.” Beyond the Boundaries: A New Structure of Ambition in African American Politics (2017): 247.

Wilmer, Franke, Michael E. Melody, and Margaret Maier Murdock. 2011. “Including Native American Perspectives in the Political Science Curriculum.” PS: Political Science and Politics 27(2): 269–76.

Yaylacı, Şule, and Edana Beauvais. 2017. “The Role of Social Group Membership on Classroom Participation.” PS: Political Science & Politics50(2): 559–64.

Citations and Experts in the Public Sphere

Atchison, Amy, and Jonathan Bull. 2015. “Will Open Access Get Me Cited? An Analysis of the Efficacy of Open Access Publishing in Political Science.” PS: Political Science & Politics48(01): 129–37.

Atchison, Amy. “Making Research Articles Freely Available Can Help to Negate Gender Citation Effects in Political Science.” Impact of Social Sciences Blog.3

Atchison, Amy. 2017, “Negating the Gender Citation Advantage in Political Science”. Political Science and International Relations Faculty Publications.19.

Beaulieu, Emily, Amber E. Boydstun, Nadia E. Brown, Kim Yi Dionne, Andra Gillespie, Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov, Melissa R. Michelson, Kathleen Searles, and Christina Wolbrecht. 2017. “Women Also Know Stuff: Meta-Level Mentoring to Battle Gender Bias in Political Science.” PS: Political Science & Politics 50 (3): 779–83.

Bindi, Federiga, and Mimosa Giamanco. 2019. “Missing in Action: The Absence of Women Scholars on Foreign Policy Panels.” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, March. https://www.georgetownjournalofinternationalaffairs.org/online-edition/2019/3/26/missing-in-action-the-absence-of-women-scholars-on-foreign-policy-panels.

Brown, Nadia E., and David Samuels. 2018. “Beyond the Gender Citation Gap: Comments on Dion, Sumner, and Mitchell.” Political Analysis26(3): 328–30.

Dion, Michelle L., Jane Lawrence Sumner, and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell. 2018. “Gendered Citation Patterns across Political Science and Social Science Methodology Fields.” Political Analysis26(3): 312–27.

Esarey, Justin, and Kristin Bryant. 2018. “Are Papers Written by Women Authors Cited Less Frequently?” Political Analysis26(3): 331–34.

Jensenius, Francesca R., Mala Htun, David J. Samuels, David A. Singer, Adria Lawrence, and Michael Chwe, “Benefits and Pitfalls of Google Scholar.” PS: Political Science & Politics 51, no. 4 (2018): 820-824.

Kim, Hannah June, and Bernard Grofman. 2019. “The Political Science 400: With Citation Counts by Cohort, Gender, and Subfield.” PS: Political Science & Politics52(2): 296–311.

Maliniak, Daniel, Ryan Powers, and Barbara F. Walter. 2013. “The Gender Citation Gap in International Relations.” International Organization67(4): 889–922.

Mitchell, Sara McLaughlin, Samantha Lange, and Holly Brus. 2013. “Gendered Citation Patterns in International Relations Journals.” International Studies Perspectives 14(4): 485–92.

Murdie, Amanda. 2018. “We Need a New International Norm: Eradicating the Gender Citation Gap.” Political Analysis26(3): 345–47.

Peterson, David A. M. 2018. “Historical Disparities and Gendered Citation Patterns.” Political Analysis26(3): 338–344.

Sumner, Jane Lawrence. 2018. “The Gender Balance Assessment Tool (GBAT): A Web-Based Tool for Estimating Gender Balance in Syllabi and Bibliographies.” PS: Political Science & Politics51(2): 396–400.

Zigerell, L. J. 2015. “Is the Gender Citation Gap in International Relations Driven by Elite Papers?” Research & Politics2 (2): 1-7.

Mentoring and other Strategies for Change

Alex-Assensoh, Yvette M., Terri Givens, Kathie Golden, Vincent L. Hutchings, Sherri L. Wallace, and Kenny J. Whitby. “Mentoring and African-American political scientists.” PS: Political Science & Politics 38, no. 2 (2005): 283-285.

Barnes, Tiffany D., and Emily Beaulieu. 2017. “Engaging Women: Addressing the Gender Gap in Women’s Networking and Productivity.” PS: Political Science & Politics 50(2): 461–66.

Bedolla, Lisa García. “How an Intersectional Approach Can Help to Transform the University.” Politics & Gender 10, no. 3 (2014): 447-455.

Bos, Angela L., and Monica C. Schneider. 2012. “New Research on Gender in Political Psychology: Mentoring to Fix the Leaky Pipeline.” PS: Political Science & Politics45(2): 223–31.

Brown, Nadia, Niambi M. Carter, Keneshia Grant, Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, Andra N. Gillespie, Byron D’Andra Orey, and Christopher Matthew Whitt. “Mentoring Students into Phd Programs and Beyond: A Roundtable Discussion.” In 2018 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting. 2017.

Cassese, Erin C., and Mirya R. Holman. 2018. “Writing Groups as Models for Peer Mentorship among Female Faculty in Political Science.” PS: Political Science & Politics51 (2): 401–5.

Hero, Rodney. 2015. “Reflections on ‘How Political Science Can Be More Diverse.’” PS: Political Science & Politics 48(03): 469–71.

Htun, Mala. “Promoting Diversity and Inclusion through Engagement: The APSA 2018 Hackathon,” PS: Political Science and Politics, Volume 52, Issue 4 (2019): 677-683.

Kittilson, Miki Caul. “Advancing Women in Political Science: Navigating Gendered Structures of Opportunity.” PS: Political Science & Politics 48, no. 3 (2015): 450-453.

Mershon, Carol, and Denise Walsh. 2015. “How Political Science Can Be More Diverse.” PS: Political Science & Politics 48(3): 441–44.

Sinclair-Chapman, Valeria. 2015. “Leveraging Diversity in Political Science for Institutional and Disciplinary Change.” PS: Political Science & Politics 48(3): 454–58.

Teaching Evaluations

For a full bibliography of citations on gender bias in STEs across academia, please see:

Holman, Mirya, Ellen Key and Rebecca Kreitzer. 2019. “Evidence of Bias in Standard Evaluations of Teaching.”https://docs.google.com/document/d/14JiF-fT–F3Qaefjv2jMRFRWUS8TaaT9JjbYke1fgxE/edit?usp=sharing

Within Political Science:

Andersen, Kristi, and Elizabeth D. Miller. 1997. “Gender and Student Evaluations of Teaching.” PS: Political Science and Politics30 (2): 216–19.

Martin, Lisa L. 2016. “Gender, Teaching Evaluations, and Professional Success in Political Science.” PS: Political Science & Politics49(2): 313–19.

Mitchell, Kristina M. W., and Jonathan Martin. 2018. “Gender Bias in Student Evaluations.” PS: Political Science & Politics 51(3): 648–52.

Perry, Armon R.; Wallace, Sherri L.; Moore, Sharon E.; and Perry-Burney, Gwendolyn D., “Understanding student evaluations : a black faculty perspective.” (2015). Faculty Scholarship. Paper 15.

Peterson, David A. M. et al. 2019. “Mitigating Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching.” PLoS ONE. https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A585533804/AONE?sid=lms (October 12, 2019).

Research Topics and Approaches

Fraga, Luis R., John A. Garcia, Rodney E. Hero, Michael Jones-Correa, Valerie Martinez-Ebers, and Gary M. Segura. “Su casa es nuestra casa: Latino politics research and the development of American political science.” American Political Science Review 100, no. 4 (2006): 515-521.

Hero, Rodney E. “American Politics and Political Science in an Era of Growing Racial Diversity and Economic Disparity.” Perspectives on Politics 14, no. 1 (2016): 7-20.

Johnson, Carol. 2015. “Women, Gender and Feminism in the Australian Journal of Political Science : A Review.” Australian Journal of Political Science50(4): 695–706.

Johnson, Genevieve Fuji, Mark Pickup, Eline A. de Rooij, and Rémi Léger. 2017. “Research Openness in Canadian Political Science: Toward an Inclusive and Differentiated Discussion.” Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique50(1): 311–28.

Key, Ellen M., and Jane Lawrence Sumner. 2019. “You Research Like a Girl: Gendered Research Agendas and Their Implications.” PS: Political Science & Politics52(4): 663–68.

MacDonald, Fiona. 2017. “Knocking Down Walls in Political Science: In Defense of an Expansionist Feminist Agenda.” Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 50(2): 411–26.

McClain, Paula D. et al. 2016. “Race, Power, and Knowledge: Tracing the Roots of Exclusion in the Development of Political Science in the United States.” Politics, Groups, and Identities4(3): 467–82.

Mügge, Liza, Celeste Montoya, Akwugo Emejulu, and S. Laurel Weldon. 2018. “Intersectionality and the Politics of Knowledge Production.” European Journal of Politics and Gender(1) 17–36

Nath, Nisha, Ethel Tungohan, and Megan Gaucher. 2018. “The Future of Canadian Political Science: Boundary Transgressions, Gender and Anti-Oppression Frameworks.” Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 51(3): 619–42.

Sawer, Marian, and Kerryn Baker, Eds. 2018. Gender Innovation in Political Science: New Norms, New Knowledge. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan Us. (Individual chapters are not cited here; see the table of contents of the book.)

Simien, Evelyn M., and Ange-Marie Hancock. 2011. “Mini-symposium: Intersectionality research.” Political Research Quarterly 64(1): 185–186.

Stauffer, Katelyn E., and Diana Z. O’Brien. 2018. “Quantitative Methods and Feminist Political Science.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics.https://oxfordre.com/politics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-210 (October 12, 2019).

Tolley, Erin. 2017. “Into the Mainstream or Still at the Margins? 50 Years of Gender Research in the Canadian Political Science Association.” Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique50(1): 143–61.

Vitalis, Robert. 2015. “White world order, black power politics: The birth of American international relations.” Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

Vickers, Jill. 2015. “Can We Change How Political Science Thinks? ‘Gender Mainstreaming’ in a Resistant Discipline: Presidential Address Delivered to the Canadian Political Science Association, Ottawa, June 2, 2015.” Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 48(4): 747–70.

Zalewski, Marysia. 1998. “Where Is Woman in International Relations? ‘To Return as a Woman and Be Heard.’” Millennium27 (4): 847–67.

Professional Associations and Conferences

Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G., Byron D’Andra Orey, and Khalilah Brown-Dean. 2015. “Professional Conferences and the Challenges of Studying Black Politics.” PS: Political Science & Politics 48(2): 319–23.

Fattore, Christina. 2019. “Nevertheless, She Persisted: Women’s Experiences and Perceptions within the International Studies Association.” International Studies Perspectives20(1): 46–62.

Goodman, Sara Wallace, and Thomas B. Pepinsky. 2019. “Gender Representation and Strategies for Panel Diversity: Lessons from the APSA Annual Meeting.”PS: Political Science & Politics52(04): 669–76.

Htun, Mala. “Promoting Diversity and Inclusion through Engagement: The APSA 2018 Hackathon,” PS: Political Science and Politics, Volume 52, Issue 4 (2019): 677-683.

Nunnally, Shayla C. 2019. “The National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS): Organizational Empowerment Through Signaling and Valuing Women and Diversity During #MeToo.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy40 (1): 190–94. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2019.1565458.

Syllabi, Textbooks, and Bibliographies

Cassese, Erin C. and Angela L. Bos. 2013. “A Hidden Curriculum? Examining the Gender Content in Introductory-Level Political Science Textbooks.” Politics and Gender, 9 (2).

Colgan, Jeff. 2017. “Gender Bias in International Relations Graduate Education? New Evidence from Syllabi.” PS: Political Science & Politics50(2): 456–60.

Hardt, Heidi, Amy Erica Smith, Hannah June Kim, and Philippe Meister. 2019. “The Gender Readings Gap in Political Science Graduate Training.” The Journal of Politics81(4): 1528–32.

Takeda, Okiyoshi. 2015. “A Forgotten Minority? A Content Analysis of Asian Pactific Americans in Introductory American Government Textbooks.” PS: Political Science & Politics (3): 430–39.

Wallace, Sherri L., and Marcus D. Allen. “Affirmative Action Debates in American Government Introductory Textbooks.” Journal of Black Studies 47, no. 7 (2016): 659-681.

Sexual and other forms of Harassment

Brown, Nadia E. 2019. “Me Too Political Science: An Introduction.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy40 (1): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2019.1563413.

Brown, Nadia E. 2019. “Mentoring, Sexual Harassment, and Black Women Academics.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy40 (1): 166–73. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2019.1565455.

Clawson, Rosalee A. 2019. “#MeToo from a Department Head Perspective.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy40 (1): 184–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2019.1565457.

Hasunuma, Linda, and Ki-young Shin. 2019. “#MeToo in Japan and South Korea: #WeToo, #WithYou.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy40 (1): 97–111. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2019.1563416.

Jackson, Jenn M. 2019. “Breaking Out of the Ivory Tower: (Re)Thinking Inclusion of Women and Scholars of Color in the Academy.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy40 (1): 195–203. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2019.1565459.

Lay, J. Celeste. 2019. “Policy Learning and Transformational Change: University Policies on Sexual Harassment.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy40 (1): 156–65. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2019.1565450.

McDermott, Rose. 2019. “Political Science’s #MeToo Moment.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy40 (1): 148–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2019.1563423.

McKinney, Claire. 2019. “Sexual Coercion, Gender Construction, and Responsibility for Freedom: A Beauvoirian Account of Me Too.”Journal of Women, Politics & Policy40 (1): 75–96. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2019.1563415.

Monroe, Kristen Renwick. 2019. “Ending Sexual Harassment: Protecting the Progress of #MeToo.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy40 (1): 131–47. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2019.1563422.

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