Christina Wolbrecht is an Associate Professor of Political Science and director of the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of The Politics of Women“s Rights: Parties, Positions, and Change (2000), which received the Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award from the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the APSA. She is co-editor of Political Women and American Democracy (Cambridge, 2008) as well as other edited volumes, and the author or co-author of a number of articles in leading political science journals.