Jennifer Piscopo, Ph.D.

Jennifer.Piscopo@rhul.ac.uk


Full Professor

Royal Holloway, University of London

Year of PhD: 2011

City: London, England

Country: United Kingdom

About Me:

Jennifer M. Piscopo is Professor of Politics and Gender at Royal Holloway University of London. Her research on representation, gender quotas, and legislative institutions in Latin America has appeared in over 20 journals, including The American Journal of Political Science, Party Politics, Social Politics, Comparative Political StudiesPolitics & Gender, The Latin American Research Review and Latin American Politics and Society. With Susan Franceschet and Mona Lena Krook, she is editor of The Impact of Gender Quotas (Oxford University Press, 2012). She co-edits the journal Politics, Groups, and Identities. Her consultancies on women's political rights include projects for UN Women, UNDP, and national governments, and her public-facing writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, The Boston Review, Smithsonian Magazine, and Americas Quarterly, among other domestic and international outlets. A Gates Cambridge Scholar, she received her M.Phil. in Latin American Studies with distinction from the University of Cambridge in 2003, and her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, in 2011. She has held visiting fellowships at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. She has extensive research and travel experience in Latin America. 

Research Interests

Gender and Politics

Latin American And Caribbean Politics

Legislative Politics

Elections, Election Administration, and Voting Behavior

Political Parties and Interest Groups

Countries of Interest

Mexico

Argentina

Costa Rica

Chile

United States

My Research:

For a full list of my publications, please visit: https://www.jenniferpiscopo.com/publications/. I have written many articles and op-eds in newspapers and magazines, as well as given comments for print, TV, and radio in English and in Spanish. A very selected list appears below. For a full list of my public-facing writing and media appearances, please visit: https://www.jenniferpiscopo.com/media/

Media Appearances:

TV Appearances:

(2020) Korea Public Broadcasting (Seoul)

"Female Leaders vs. Covid-19"

(2020) Andres "El Mono" Lopez news show (Ecuador)

Discussing the 2020 U.S. Election

Radio Appearances:

(2020) El Post (Washington Post in Spanish - Podcast)

"Kamala Harris, Vice-President"

Other:

(2020) Ms. Magazine

Article: “States of Feminist Resistance: Women Legislators Make a Difference"

(2020) The Boston Review

Article: "Without Women, There is No Democracy"

(2020) The Boston Review

Long-form article: "The Right to Be Elected"

(2020) The Washington Post

Analysis: "Are Women Leaders Better at Fighting the Coronavirus?"

(2020) Smithsonian Magazine

Article: "How Women Vote: Separating Myth from Reality"

(2019) Washington Post

Op-ed: “After Weeks of Latin American Protests, Expect More Women in Elected Office”

(2018) The New York Times

Op-ed: "Latin America's female leadership void."

(2018) The Los Angeles Times

Op-ed: "Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have a problem: They're all men."

(2018) The Washington Post

Op-ed: "Women won big in Mexico's Elections"