CURRICULUM VITAE LEE ANN BANASZAK CURRENT AFFILIATION Professor Department of Political Science & Affiliate, Women s Studies Phone: (814) 865-6573 or 232 Pond Laboratory 865-7515 Penn State University FAX: (814) 863-8979 University Park, PA 16802 Email: LAB14@PSU.EDU EDUCATION Ph.D. 1989 Political Science, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. M.A. 1983 Political Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. B.A. 1981 Political Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Academic Appointments 2011-present Professor, Pennsylvania State University 2008-2009 Guest Scholar, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Zivilgesellschaft, Citizenship und politische Mobilisierung in Europa Forschungsgruppe (Berlin, Germany) 1994-2011 Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University 2000 Guest Scholar, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Oeffentlichkeit und soziale Bewegungen Abteilung (Berlin, Germany) 1995 Visiting Lecturer, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 1989-1994 Assistant Professor, Iowa State University Administrative Appointments 2014 (July)-present Head, Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University 2009-2014 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University 2004-2008 Graduate Placement Director, Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University
Lee Ann Banaszak May 2014 2 BOOKS 100 years of the Nineteenth Amendment: An Appraisal of Women s Political Activism (Edited Volume with Holly McCammon). (Prospectus under review). The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women s Activism. (Edited volume with Holly McCammon, Jo Reger and Verta Taylor) (Under contract: Oxford: Oxford University Press). The Women's Movement Inside and Outside the State. (2010. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). The U.S. Women s Movement in a Global Perspective. (Edited volume). (2005. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield). Women s Movements Facing a Reconfigured State (Edited volume with Karen Beckwith and Dieter Rucht). (2003. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage (1996. Princeton: Princeton University Press) ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS Coalition type and voter support for parties: Grand coalitions in German elections. (with Peter Doerschler). Electoral Studies 31(March 2012): 46-59. Informal Institutions, Protest, and Change in Gendered Federal Systems. (with S. Laurel Weldon). Politics & Gender 7(June 2011): 262 273. Political Dissatisfaction, Economic Voting or Ideology: Explaining the Changing Support for the PDS in Germany. (with Peter Doerschler) Electoral Studies 26 (June 2007): 359-370. The Gendering State and Citizens Attitudes toward Women s Roles: State Policy, Employment and Religion in Germany. Politics & Gender 2(March 2006): 29-56. East-West Differences in German Abortion Opinion. Public Opinion Quarterly 62 (Winter 1998): 545-582. "When Waves Collide: Cycles of Protest and the Swiss and American Women s Movements. Political Research Quarterly 49 (December 1996): 837-860. "Contextual Determinants of Feminist Attitudes: National and Subnational Influences in Western Europe." American Political Science Review 87 (March 1993): 147-157. (with Eric Plutzer) "The Social Bases of Feminism in the European Community." Public Opinion Quarterly 57 (Spring 1993): 29-53. (with Eric Plutzer) "The Influence of the Initiative on the Swiss and American Women's Suffrage Movements." Schweizerisches Jahrbuch für Politische Wissenschaft 31 (1991): 187-207.
Lee Ann Banaszak May 2014 3 ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS (CONTINUED) "How Employment Affects Women s Gender Attitudes: The Workplace as a Locus of Contextual Effects." Political Geography Quarterly 20 (April 1991): 174-185. (with Jan Leighley) BOOK CHAPTERS Moving Feminist Activists Inside the American State: The Rise of a State Movement Intersection and its Effects on State Policy (2009). In The Unsustainable American State, edited by Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 233-254. Women s Movements and Women in Movements: Influencing American Democracy from the Outside? (2008). In Political Women and American Democracy, edited by Christina Wolbrecht, Karen Beckwith, and Lisa Baldez. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp.79-95. The U.S. Women s Movement in a Global Perspective: An Introduction. (2005) In The U.S. Women s Movement in a Global Perspective edited by Lee Ann Banaszak. (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers). Pp.1-21. Conclusion: The U.S. Women s Movement and Beyond (2005) In The U.S. Women s Movement in a Global Perspective edited by Lee Ann Banaszak. (Lantham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers). Pp. 215-224. Inside and Outside the State: Movement Insider Status, Tactics and Public Policy Achievements (2005). In Meyer, David, Valerie Jenness and Helen Ingram (eds.). Routing the Opposition:Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Pp.149-176. When Power Relocates: Interactive Changes in Women s Movements and States. (With Karen Beckwith and Dieter Rucht). In Women s Movements Facing a Reconfigured State edited by Lee Ann Banaszak, Karen Beckwith and Dieter Rucht. (2003: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Pp.1-29. Reprinted in Women, Gender, and Politics: A Reader, edited by Mona Lena Krook and Sarah Childs (2010. Oxford: Oxford University Press). The Women s Movement and the Constraints of State Reconfiguration: Abortion and Equal Pay in Differing Eras In Women s Movements Facing a Reconfigured State edited by Lee Ann Banaszak, Karen Beckwith and Dieter Rucht. (2003: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Pp.141-168. Is the U.S. Women s Movement A New or an Old Social Movement? in Geschlechterarrangements im Zeitalter der Globalisierung, Helgard Kramer and Roger Naegele (eds). (2003: Heidelberg: Mattes Verlag). Pp. 15-30.
Lee Ann Banaszak May 2014 4 BOOK CHAPTERS (CONTINUED) Use of the Initiative by Woman Suffrage Movements in Social Movements and American Political Institutions, Anne Costain and Andrew McFarland, eds. (1998) Rowman and Littlefield: Boulder CO. pp. 99-114. "Frauen in den Kommunalwahlen: Ein Vergleich von Ost- und West-Berlin" in Gefährtinnen der Macht: Politische Partizipation von Frauen im vereinigten Deutschland -- eine Zwischenbilanz, Penrose, V. and Maleck-Lewy, E., eds. (1995) Sigma edition: Berlin. pp. 115-135. BOOK REVIEWS Sidney Tarrow s Strangers at the Gate mobilization, (2013 Liesl Haas Feminist Policymaking in Chile. Perspectives on Politics (2011, No. 4): 843-844. Louise Davidson-Schmich s Becoming Party Politicians. Perspectives on Politics 5 (2007, No. 2): 385-386. Amy Mazur s Theorizing Feminist Policy. Journal of Politics 66 (2004, No. 4): 1339-1341. Jill Bystydzienski s Women in Electoral Politics. Women and Politics 20 (1999, No. 1): 97-98. "Naomi Black's Social Feminism." Women and Politics 11 (1991: No. 1): 123-125. OTHER PUBLICATIONS The Hidden Women s Movement Politics & Gender 10 (2014):2. Pp. 284-287. Reply to Liesl Haas review of The Women s Movement Inside and Outside the State in Perspectives on Politics (2011 No. 4): 887. "Crossing the Border: Discovering the Wall in Berlin after Unification" in New German Questions. (1993) Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung: Bonn. MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS Public Opinion as a Movement Outcome: The Case of the U.S. Women s Movement (with Heather Ondercin). Under review. Political Participation in Ethnically Diverse Societies: Understanding the Role of Ethnic Heterogeneity and Civic Associations (with Ekrem Karakoc). Under review. Explaining Movement and Countermovement Events in the Contemporary U.S. Women s Movement (with Heather Ondercin). Under revision.
Lee Ann Banaszak May 2014 5 MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS (CONTINUED) Learning Protest: How protest contexts Influence Adolescents views of Unconventional Political Participation (with Sarah Liu and Neslihan Burcin Tamer). Under revision. Learning Gender Equality: Women's Movement Influence on Youth Attitudes in a Comparative Perspective(with Sarah Liu and Neslihan Burcin Tamer). Under revision. Exploring the Intersection of Race and Gender Activism in the Federal Bureaucracy In Progress. Making Climate Change Personal: An intersectional look at climate change negotiations (with Neslihan Burcin Tamer). In progress. NATIONAL AWARDS o Sophonisba Breckinridge Award for the best paper delivered on women and politics at the Midwest Political Science Association Meetings. 2006. o Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics. Honorable Mention. 2003. o Alice Paul Award for best dissertation proposal by a woman. Awarded by the Women's Caucus for Political Science, 1987. SELECTED GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS External o Academic Leadership Fellow, Committee on Institutional Cooperation, 2013-2014. o Spencer Foundation New Civics Initiative Grant. Awarded for a project on a crossnational analysis of youth attitudes toward protest. ($39,975) January 2012-December 2013. o Bundeskanzler Fellowship. (8250 Euro/$12870)Awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for research collaboration on public opinion and protest. March May 2009. o Schlesinger Library Research Support Grant. ($2000) Awarded for archival research on feminist activists who worked for the federal government. Summer 2003. o Bundeskanzler Fellowship. (20,000DM/approx. $14,000) Awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for research collaboration on comparative women s movement research. January-April 2000.
Lee Ann Banaszak May 2014 6 SELECTED GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS (continued) o Council for European Studies Research Planning Grant, ($15,000) for research collaboration on comparative study of the State and women's movements, (with Karen Beckwith and Dieter Rucht) 1996-99. o Fulbright Fellowship. Awarded to the University of Kebangsaan Malaysia for curricular development and instruction. January-May 1995. o Bundeskanzler Fellowship. (75,000DM/approx. $51,000) Awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for research on the East and West German women s movement. October, 1991 -November, 1992. o American Political Science Association Small Grant Award. ($2,000) for the contextual determinants of feminism in the European Union, May 1990- September 1991. o Swiss Government Grant. Administered by Institute of International Education (IIE) dissertation research at the University of Bern, Switzerland. July 1987 - July 1988. Internal to University o Africana Research Center Research Grant. Awarded by the Africana Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University. ($2500) for in-depth interviews with African American women activists who worked for the federal government. May 2011-May 2012. o Pennsylvania State University, The College of Liberal Arts RGSO Research Support Grant. ($3,000) for in-depth interviews with feminist activists who worked for the federal government, August 2003-January 2004. o Pennsylvania State University s Fund for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. (With Regina Smyth and Helen Sheehy). ($2500). September 1999-May 2000. o Iowa State University Research Grant. (With Eric Plutzer) for contextual determinants of feminism in the European Union. May 15, 1990 - June 30, 1991. MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER - American Political Science Review -- American Sociological Review - Journal of Politics -- World Politics - International Studies Quarterly -- Public Opinion Quarterly - Political Research Quarterly -- American Journal of Political Science - American Journal of Sociology -- Politics and Gender - Journal of Women s History -- Signs - Social Forces -- Social Problems - Social Movement Studies -- Political Behavior - Political Analysis -- mobilization - Oxford University Press -- Cambridge University Press - - University of Chicago Press University of Pittsburgh Press -- University of Michigan Press -- Penn State University Press - Palgrave/McMillan Press - Peer Reviewer, National Science Foundation
Lee Ann Banaszak May 2014 7 RECENT SELECTED CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Do We Still Need a Women s Movement in America? Roundtable participant at the American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, August-September 2013, Chicago, IL. Learning Gender Equality: Women's Movement Influence on Youth Attitudes in a Comparative Perspective(with Sarah Liu and Neslihan Burcin Tamer). Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, August-September 2013. Learning Protest: How protest contexts Influence Adolescents views of Unconventional Political Participation (with Sarah Liu and Neslihan Burcin Tamer). Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 2013, Chicago IL. Public Opinion as Movement Outcome: The Influence of the U.S. Women's Movement on Gender Attitudes. (with Heather Ondercin). Paper presented at the American Sociological Association, August 17-20, 2012, Denver CO. Informal Institutions and Gendered Federal Systems (with S. Laurel Weldon). Paper presented at the American Political Science Association, September 1-4, 2011, Seattle, WA. Participant, Roundtable USA 2011 on Societies in Transition: Facing the Facts about Political Participation. July 14-16, 2011, Washington, D.C. Collective Action Events, Public Opinion, and Public Policy in the U.S. Women s Movement (with Heather Ondercin). Paper presented at the Outcomes of Social Movements and Protest International Conference at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Berlin Germany, June 23-25, 2011. Norms, Protest and Change in Gendered Federal Systems. (with S. Laurel Weldon). Paper presented at the FINSA Workshop on Gender and Federalism: New Ideas about Comparative Approaches, September 5 th 2010, Washington DC. Explaining Movement and Countermovement Events in the Contempory U.S. Women's Movement. (with Heather Ondercin). Paper presented at the American Political Science Association, September 2-5, 2010, Washington D.C. Grand Coalitions and Voter Behavior (with Peter Doerschler). Presented at a special conference on the 2009 German Election, April 26-27, 2010, Lawrence Kansas. Examining Endogeneity in Social Movement Protest and Public Opinion: The Case of the U.S. Women s Movement. (with Heather Ondercin). Paper presented at the American Political Science Association, September 3-6, 2009, Toronto, Canada. Feminist Activists Inside the State: Comparing Paths to Insider Activism in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom. (with Jiso Yoon). Paper presented at the First European Conference on Gender and Politics, January 21-23, 2009, Belfast, Ireland. Also presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 30-September 2, 2007, Chicago, IL.
Lee Ann Banaszak May 2014 8 RECENT SELECTED CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION (CONTINUED) Race, the State, and Intersectionality in the U.S. Women s Movement. Paper presented at the European Consortium for Political Research 2007 General Conference, September 6-8, 2007, Pisa, Italy. SELECTED INVITED LECTURES Studying Public Opinion as a Movement Outcome: The Case of the U.S. Women s Movement Catedra de las Americas on Media, Power, and Social Movements keynote speaker, La Universidad del Norte, Baranquilla, Colombia, October 25, 2012. Connecting Public Opinion and Social Movement Events: The Case of the U.S. Women's Movement. Campaign and Elections Speaker Series, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. March 1, 2010. Mobilisierung binnen des Staats: Feministische Beamterinnen und der Anfang der amerikanische Frauenbewegung. Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany. May 7, 2009. Social Movement Protest and Public Opinion: Examining the Chicken and Egg Problem. Forschungsgruppe Zivilgesellschaft, Citizenship und politische Mobilisierung in Europa, Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung, Berlin, Germany. December 11, 2008. Inside and Outside the State: The Women's Movement and the Washington Feminist Underground. The Pennsylvania State University Women s Club Book and Play Review Group, February 25, 2008, State College PA. Gender and the Reconfiguring of the German State. Annual Meeting of the German Chancellor Fellowship Program, American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, June 2, 2007, Sacramento, CA. Mobilizing In and Out of the State: Feminist Bureaucrats and Women s Movement Organizations. Department of Political Science, Rutgers University, September 18, 2006. Controversies in the Women's Suffrage Movement: Lessons for Leadership? Seminar on Women, Politics, and Leadership, City College of New York, March 9, 2005. Women s Movement Policy Achievements in a Reconfigured State. Department of Political Science, University of Houston, March 6, 2004. Teaching Assistant Training in Political Science. Teaching Assistant Coordinators Workshop sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Consortium at The Pennsylvania State University, January 17, 2002. Women in the Elections. AT&T Center for Leadership Program, The Pennsylvania State University, October 24, 2000.
Lee Ann Banaszak May 2014 9 SELECTED SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Editorial Board of Politics & Gender, 2013-present. Co-chair, Bundeskanzler Fellowship Alumni Conference Steering Committee, American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, October 2012-present Executive Committee, Politics and History Organized Research Section, American Political Science Association, November 2012-present Co-organizer, Visions in Methodology Conference, : A Workshop for Women in Political Methodology. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Society for Political Methodology, the PSU College of Liberal Arts, and the PSU Department of Political Science, May 2012 Chair, Sophonisba Breckinridge Award Committee for the best paper at the 2010 Midwest Political Science Association Meeting on the topic of women and politics, 2011-2012 Mary Parker Follett Award Committee to select prize for best article in politics and history, 2010-2011 Editorial Board of Polity, 2005-present Committee to select the editors of Politics & Gender, 2009-2010 Committee to select best article published in Polity in 2008 Section Organizer, First European Conference on Politics and Gender, 2007-2008 Chair, Committee to select the editors of Politics & Gender, 2006-2007 President, Women and Politics Organized Research Section of the American Political Science Association, August 2005-August 2006 Emerging Scholar Award Committee, Midwest Political Science Association for the best paper authored by someone who received their degree in the last six years. 2005-2006 Women and Politics Section Program Chair for the 2005 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2005-2005 Chair, Committee to select the Best Paper in the Field of Women and Politics, American Political Science Association Women and Politics Organized Research Section, 2003-2004 Alice Paul Dissertation Proposal Award Committee, Women s Caucus for Political Science, American Political Science Association, 2002-2003 Women and Politics Program Co-Chair, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 1998-1999
Lee Ann Banaszak May 2014 10 SELECTED SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION (CONTINUED) Chair, Victoria Schuck Awards Committee, American Political Science Association 1997-1998 Treasurer, Women and Politics Organized Research Section, American Political Science Association, 1996-2002 Moderator Coordinator,National Women's Studies Association Conference, 1994 National Science Foundation Panel on Graduate Research Fellowship, 1995 Promotion reviewer for Ohio State University, Northeastern University, Rutgers University, Dartmouth College, University of Iowa, American University, College of Wooster, Muhlenberg College, Lafayette College, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth SELECTED DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE University and College Service The Pennsylvania State University: o Special Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Liberal Arts,2009-2010 o Promotion and Tenure Committee, Dept. of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, 2009-2012 o Child Care Issue Committee, University Commission for Women, 2007-2009 o Sabbatical Leave Committee, College of the Liberal Arts, 2003-2007 (chair 2006-2007) o Business and Liberal Arts Minor Committee, 2006-2011 o Undergraduate Committee, College of Liberal Arts, 1995-1997 Iowa State University: o Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics Steering Committee, 1993-1994 o Women's Studies Program Steering Committee, 1993-1994 o Faculty Advisor, Campus National Organization of Women, 1994 Departmental Service The Pennsylvania State University: o Graduate Studies Committee, 2000-2001 & 2004-present
Lee Ann Banaszak May 2014 11 o Executive Committee, 2004-2008 o Undergraduate Committee, 1995-1998 o Comparative Field Exam Committee, 1998-1999, 2003-2005, & 2006-2008 o Women Studies Field Exam Committee, 2004-2006, 2009-present o Committee on Teaching Improvement, 2003-2004 o Core Undergraduate Advisor, 2000-2001 Iowa State University: o Graduate Admissions Committee, 1989-1991, 1992-1993, (Chair:1990-1991) COMMUNITY SERVICE o Parent Advisory Council. Office of Child Development, Department of Public Welfare, State of Pennsylvania, 2005-2007 o Nittany Area Families for Childcare (Organizer), 2004-2006. GRADUATE STUDENTS ADVISED DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR: o Shan-Jan Sarah Liu, In Progress o Neslihan Burcin Tamer, In Progress o Jiso Yoon (co-chair), 2011. Currently Assistant Professor, University of Kansas. o Ekrem Karakoc (co-chair), 2011. Currently Assistant Professor, Binghamton University. o Nicole Edgar Moreford, 2007. Currently adjunct on-line instructor, The Pennsylvania State University and Cleveland State University. o Maria Inclan, 2005. Currently Assistant Professor,Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE, Mexico) o Peter Doerschler, 2004. Currently Associate Professor, Bloomsburg College. DISSERTATION COMMITTEE: o Erica Dollhopf (Sociology), In Progress o Kevin Weaver (Psychology), In Progress o Rachel Moran (History), Defended Summer 2013 o Kathleen Marchetti, Defended Summer 2013 o Patrick Rafail (Sociology), Defended Summer 2012
Lee Ann Banaszak May 2014 12 o Challen Nicklen, Defended Spring 2008 o Heather Ondercin, Defended Fall 2007 o Claudiu Tufis, Defended Summer 2007 o Edward Walker (Sociology), Defended Spring 2007 o Roger Geertz Gonzalez (Education), Defended Fall 2005 o Erik Johnson (Sociology), Defended Spring 2005 o Assata Richards (Sociology), Defended August 2004 o Heather Gollmar-Casey, Defended Fall 2000 o Tom Zarzecki, Defended Summer 1999 o Jean Mayer, Defended Fall 1998 SELECTED MASTER S THESES CHAIRED: o Shan-Jan Sarah Liu, Spring 2012 o Dallan Guzinski, Spring 2012 o Burcin Tamer, Summer 2011 o Jiso Yoon, Spring 2007 o Peter Doerschler o Erin Cross, Spring 1998 o Craig Ortsey,Summer 1997 o David Karol (Iowa State University), Spring 1994 o Ari Darmistuti (Iowa State University), Spring 1993 REFERENCES Available upon request