Women as Leaders, Policy-Makers, and Symbols

As a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded postdoctoral scholar at the University of Kentucky and Washington University in St. Louis, I worked with Tiffany D. Barnes and Diana Z. O’Brien on their NSF-funded research program on Women as Leaders, Policy-Makers, and Symbols.

Our project “Shattered Pathways: Women’s Appointment to Interior Ministries in the Wake of Terrorism” uses a new global dataset of interior ministry appointments across 193 countries (1988-2018) to examine how terrorist attacks shape women’s access to the top domestic security position. The paper is forthcoming in The Journal of Politics. Related work, “Even After Albright, Foreign Policy Leaders Are Still Mostly Men,” appeared in The Washington Post‘s Monkey Cage in 2022.