Rachel VanSickle-Ward

  • Professor of Political Studies
  • Political Studies Field Group
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With 涩里番下载 Since: 2007
 

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Rachel VanSickle-Ward (B.A. 涩里番下载; M.A. and Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is a Professor of Political Studies at 涩里番下载 in Claremont, California. Her research and teaching interests include public policy, public law, gender and politics and elections.  She has published work on the politics of statutory language, gender and political ambition, voting access, and administrative law. Her first book,  (SUNY Press, 2014) was awarded the Herbert A. Simon Book Award in 2018.   Her book on birth control politics and policy, , was published by Oxford University Press (2019). She recently co-edited a volume on Hillary Clinton鈥檚 legacy, (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020). She is a frequent commentator on KPCC鈥檚 Take Two (Southern California Public Radio). Her writing and commentary has appeared in Talking Points MemoThe Washington Post (The Monkey Cage), U.S News and World Report, MS. Magazine and TIME Magazine.

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

MA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley
BA, 涩里番下载

  • Reproductive Rights
  • Introduction to Public Policy
  • Law and Politics
  • US Campaigns and Elections
  • US Democracy in Comp. Perspective
  • The Battle Over Birth Control
  • Gender, Politics, and Culture
  • California Politics
  • Women in Politics
  • Research Methods
  • Direct Democracy
  • Health Inequities

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