Christina Wolbrecht

Biography

Christina Wolbrecht teaches and writes about American politics, political parties, women/gender and politics, and American political development. Wolbrecht's most recent book (with David E. Campbell) is See Jane Run: How Women Politicians Matter for Young People (Chicago 2025). She has written extensively on women voters after suffrage, including two books with J. Kevin Corder: A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections Since Suffrage (Cambridge 2020) and Counting Women’s Ballots: Female Voters from Suffrage Through the New Deal (Cambridge 2016). Both were recognized with the APSA's Victoria Schuck Award for the best book on women and politics. Her first book, The Politics of Women’s Rights: Parties, Positions, and Change (Princeton 2000), received the Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award from the Political Organizations and Parties section of the APSA. She has published articles on topics including party change and women’s representation in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and Political Behavior, among others. Wolbrecht is currently working on a project examining women’s access to local political power and on a new book investigating the impact of women’s suffrage on state legislative politics. She teaches undergraduate courses on American government, political parties, and gender, politics, & power, and as placement director, a graduate seminar on The Academic Career.