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• P.J. Fett Award. Given to the best paper on Congress and the Presidency presented at the 2000 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. April 2001. • Faculty Development Grant. Mary Washington College for research. Summer 2001. • The Sumner Prize. The most prestigious of three dissertation prizes awarded by the Department of Government at Harvard University. The prize recognizes the best dissertation from the legal, political, historical, economic, social, or ethnic approach. June 2000. • Sophonisba Breckenridge Award. Given to the best paper on Women and Politics presented at the 1999 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. April 2000. • Mellon Dissertation Research Grant. Summer/Fall 1998. • Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. For excellence in teaching based upon student evaluations above a 4.50 on a 5 point scale. Fall 1997. • Radcliffe Fellowship Recipient. 1996-97. • Phi Beta Kappa RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS American Politics, Congress, Women and Politics, Representation Issues, Political Parties, Party Leadership, and Interest Groups. PUBLICATIONS Books Swers, Michele L. 2013. Women in the Club: Gender and Policy Making in the Senate. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Dolan, Julie, Melissa Deckman, and Michele Swers. 2010. Women and Politics: Paths to Power and Political Influence. 2 nd Edition Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. (First edition published in 2007) Swers, Michele L. 2002. The Difference Women Make: The Policy Impact of Women in Congress. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Excerpts from this book appears in the Lanahan Readings in the American Polity, 4 th Edition,2007 and 5 th Edition 2011 Eds. Ann Gostyn Serow and Everett C. Ladd Baltimore: Lanahan Publishers, Inc. And Kollman, Ken. 2012. Readings in American Politics: Analysis and Perspectives 2 nd Edition New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Journal Articles Swers, Michele L. and Christine C. Kim. Forthcoming. “Replacing Sandra Day O’Connor: Gender and the Politics of Supreme Court Nominations.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 2
Reingold, Beth and Michele L. Swers. 2011. “An Endogenous Approach to Women’s Interests: When Interests are Interesting in and of Themselves.” Politics & Gender 7:429- 435. Swers, Michele L. 2007. “Building a Legislative Reputation on National Security: The Impact of Stereotypes Related to Gender and Military Experience.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 32: 559-596. Swers, Michele L. 2005. “Connecting Descriptive and Substantive Representation: An Analysis of Sex Differences in Cosponsorship Activity in the House of Representatives.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 30: 407-33. Swers, Michele L. 2004. “Whatever Happened to the Year of the Woman: Lessons from the 1992 and 2002 Elections.” Japanese Journal of the International Society for Gender Studies. 2: 7-31. Van Assendelft, Laura, Wendy Gunther-Canada, Julie Dolan, Barbara Palmer, Michele Swers. 2003. “Political Science in a Different Voice: Women Faculty Perspectives on the Status of Women in Political Science Departments in the South.” PS: Political Science and Politics 36 (2): 311-315. Swers, Michele L. 2002. “Research on Women in Legislatures: What Have We Learned and Where are We Going?” Women & Politics 23 (1/2): 167-185. Swers, Michele L. 2001. “Congressional Women: An Examination of Their Impact on Policy and Institutions.” Published as part of a Japanese and American Women’s Symposium in PS: Political Science and Politics 34 (2): 217-220. Swers, Michele L. 1998. “Are Congresswomen More Likely to Vote for Women’s Issue Bills Than Their Male Colleagues?” Legislative Studies Quarterly 23: 435- 448. This article is reprinted in O’Connor, Karen; Sarah Brewer, and Michael Fisher. 2005. Gendering American Politics: Perspectives from the Literature New York: Longman. Chapters in Edited Volumes Swers, Michele and Stella Rouse. 2011. “Descriptive Representation: Understanding the Impact of Identity on Substantive Representation of Group Interests.” In Oxford Handbook of Congress. Eds. Eric Schickler and Frances Lee New York: Oxford University Press. Swers, Michele. 2009. “Gender Differences as the Basis For a Refoundation of the Social Sciences: The Political Integration of Women: Explaining Women’s Slow Advancement into Political Office.” In The Future of Political Science: 100 Perspectives Eds. Gary King, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Norman H. Nie New York: Routledge. 3
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