SUSAN J. CARROLL, Professor, received her B.A. from Miami University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University. Her research interests focus on gender and participation in American politics. As Senior Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics, she has been co-principal investigator on several major research projects funded by the Ford Foundation, the Charles H. Revson Foundation, and the Barbara Lee Foundation. Carroll is a founder and former president of the Organized Section for Women and Politics Research of the American Political Science Association, and she co-edits the CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics, a book series published by the University of Michigan Press. In 2006 she received the Outstanding Professional Achievement Award from the Women's Caucus of the Midwest Political Science Association. She is author of Women as Candidates in American Politics (Indiana, Second Edition, 1994); editor of The Impact of Women in Public Office (Indiana, 2001) and Women and American Politics: New Questions, New Directions (Oxford, 2003); and co-editor of Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Other publications include:

"'Far from Ideal': The Gender Politics of Political Science," American Political Science Review (2006) (with Sue Tolleson-Rinehart); "Moms Who Swing, or Why the Promise of the Gender Gap Remains Unfulfilled," Politics & Gender (2006); "Are Women Legislators Accountable to Women? The Complementary Roles of Feminist Identity and Women's Organizations," in Gender and Social Capital, ed. Brenda O'Neill and Elisabeth Gidengil (2006); "'She Brought Only a Skirt:' Gender Bias in Newspaper Coverage of Elizabeth Dole's Campaign for the Republican Nomination," Political Communication (2005) (with Caroline Heldman and Stephanie Olson); "Reflections on Activism and Social Change for Scholars of Women and Politics," Politics & Gender (2005); "Increasing Diversity or More of the Same? Term Limits and the Representation of Women, Minorities, and Minority Women in State Legislatures," National Political Science Review (2005) (with Krista Jenkins); "Representing Women: Congresswomen's Perceptions of Their Representational Roles," in Women Transforming Congress, edited by Cindy Simon Rosenthal (2003); "Unrealized Opportunity? Term Limits and the Representation of Women in State Legislatures," Women & Politics (2001) (with Krista Jenkins); "Do Term Limits Help Women Get Elected?," Social Science Quarterly (2001)(with Krista Jenkins); "Welfare Reform in the 104th Congress: Institutional Position and the Role of Women," in Women and Welfare: Theory and Practice in the United States and Europe, edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann and Ulrike Liebert (2001) (with Kathleen J. Casey); "The Dis-Empowerment of the Gender Gap: Soccer Moms and the 1996 Elections," PS: Political Science & Politics (1999); "Media Coverage of Women in the 103rd Congress" in Women, Media, and Politics, ed. Pippa Norris (1997) (with Ronnee Schreiber); "Feminist Challenges to Political Science," in Political Science: The State of the Discipline II, ed. Ada W. Finifter (1993) (with Linda M.. G. Zerilli); "The Personal is Political: The Intersection of Private Lives and Public Roles Among Women and Men in Elective and Appointive Office," Women & Politics (1989); "Women's Autonomy and the Gender Gap," in Politics of the Gender Gap, ed. Carol Mueller (1988); "Political Elites and Sex Differences in Political Ambition: A Reconsideration," Journal of Politics (1985); "Women Candidates and Support for Feminist Concerns: The Closet Feminist Syndrome" Western Political Quarterly (1984).