Christina Wolbrecht
Rank
Regular Faculty - Associate ProfessorField(s)
American Politics
Education
B.A., Pacific Lutheran University
M.A., Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
Research and Teaching Interests
American politics, political parties, women and politics, American political development, agenda-setting and issue framing
Advising Specialties
Ph.D. programs
Biography
Christina Wolbrecht is the author of The Politics of Women's Rights: Parties, Positions, and Change (Princeton, 2000), which received the 2001 Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award from the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the APSA, and co-editor (with Rodney E. Hero) of The Politics of Democratic Inclusion (Temple, 2005) and (with Karen Beckwith and Lisa Baldez) of Political Women and American Democracy (Cambridge, 2008). She is currently engaged in several collaborative projects: Using new ecological inference techniques to investigate women's voting behavior after suffrage, examining the impact of female role models on women's political engagement, and analyzing the links between agenda change and party realignment.
Office Hours
Mondays and Wednesdays 10:30am-noonContact Information
Office: 442 Decio
Phone: 574-631-3836
Fax: 574-631-4405
Email: Wolbrecht.1@nd.edu
Mailing Address
Department of Political Science
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
