Research
Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women's Studies, received her B.A. from Purdue University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Her primary teaching and research fields include political psychology, political behavior and attitudes, GLBT studies, and survey methodology. Her articles have appeared in leading professional journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Quarterly, Journal of Counseling Psychology, Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,  Sexuality Research and Social Policy, Journal of Psychology, Political Behavior, and Women and Politics. She is co-editor (with Alan Ellis) of Sexual Identity in the Workplace: Issues and Services (Harrington Press, 1996) and (with Barry Tadlock) Gays and Lesbians in the Democratic Process: Public Policy, Political Representation and Public Opinion (Power, Conflict and Democracy: American Politics into the Twenty-First Century series, Columbia University Press, 1999). Her current projects include an examination of the impact of marriage ban amendments on the well-being of GLBT citizens in the U.S.