Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Political Science,
earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Kentucky. Her primary
teaching and research fields include national and state legislative processes,
political parties and elections, local and state government, Kentucky politics,
and women and politics. She is the co-author of two books, The Kentucky
Legislature: Two Decades of Change (1988) and Political Parties and Primaries
in Kentucky (1990), and author of Kentucky Politics and Government: Do We
Stand United? (1994). Her articles have appeared in leading professional
journals such as Journal of Politics, Western Politics Quarterly, Women
& Politics, Kentucky Law Journal, and Political Science & Politics. She
serves as a board member of the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars,
the Kentucky Long-Term Policy Research Center, the Kentucky Center for Public
Issues, and Kids Voting Kentucky. She also served as Chair of the Kentucky
Commission on Women. She is an Affiliated Faculty Member of Women's Studies. |
