Education

B.A. Vassar College (1992)
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin (2003)

Areas of Expertise

I am currently at work on a book, Legacies of Loss in American Politics, with Jeffrey Tulis (Princeton, 2013) as well as on a project on national identity and state building at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Scholarship/Creative Work

The State of Disunion: Regional Sources of Modern American Partisanship (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).

“Foreign Policy, Bipartisanship, and the Paradox of Post-September 11 America,” with Peter Trubowitz, International Politics. 48:2/3 (2011): 164-187.

“A Blue Nation?” in The Elections of 2008, Michael Nelson, ed., (Washington D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2009).

“The Rhetorical Presidency and the Partisan Echo Chamber,” Critical Review. 19:2-3 (2007): 367-378.

“Andrew Johnson and the Politics of Failure,” with Jeffrey K. Tulis, in Formative Acts: Reckoning with Agency in American Politics, Steven Skowronek and Matt Glassman, eds. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).

“The Election of 2004 and the Roots of Republican Success,” in The Elections of 2004, Michael Nelson, ed. (Washington D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2005).

“Going Bipartisan: Politics by Other Means,” with Peter Trubowitz, Political Science Quarterly. 120:3 (Fall 2005) : 433-453.

“Red Versus Blue: American Electoral Geography and Congressional Bipartisanship, 1898-2002,” with Peter Trubowitz, Political Geography. 24 (2005) : 659-677.

“The State of Gender Studies in Political Science,” with Gretchen Ritter, The Annals of the American Academy in Political and Social Science. 571 (September 2000) : 121-134

Committees

Leadership Studies Program (2011-2012)