Karen Beckwith, Ph.D.

karen.beckwith@case.edu


Full Professor

Case Western Reserve University

Year of PhD: 1982

Phone: 2163684129

Address: Department of Poltiical Science, Mather House 223 11201 Euclid Avenue

City: Cleveland, Ohio - 44106

Country: United States

About Me:

Karen Beckwith is the Flora Stone Mather Professor in the Department of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University. Author of numerous scholarly articles, she is the co-author of Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender (Oxford University Press, 2019), with Claire Annesley and Susan Franceschet; co-editor of Political Women and American Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and of Women’s Movements Facing the Reconfigured State (Cambridge, 2003), and author of American Women and Political Participation (Greenwood Press, 1986). She is a founding editor, with Lisa Baldez, of Politics & Gender, the official journal of the Women, Gender, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, and a founding editor, with Lisa Baldez (Dartmouth College) and Christina Wolbrecht (University of Notre Dame), of Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics, a series of books published by Cambridge University Press.   Professor Beckwith was the Fulbright-Scotland Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh in 2014.  She was the 2012-13 recipient of the Midwest Women’s Caucus for Political Science Outstanding Professional Achievement Award.  She serves on the Editorial Boards of the American Political Science Review, the Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique, and the European Journal of Politics and Gender

Research Interests

Gender and Politics

Political Parties and Interest Groups

Representation and Electoral Systems

Political Leadership

Women's Cabinet Appointments

Countries of Interest

United States

United Kingdom