Join Kathryn Pearson to discuss election results at the November 15 luncheon
Tue, November 15 2016, 11:30am
Conference Room ABC, Campus Club, Fourth Floor, Coffman Memorial Union
With a specialty in American politics, Dr. Pearson focuses her research on the United States Congress, congressional elections, political parties, and women in politics. She is a distinguished scholar in these areas and well known commentator on elections and politics across the nation and Minnesota, appearing regularly on national and Minnesota news. She is known to many of us as a contributor to the tpt public affairs panel on “Almanac.”
Her research has recently appeared in The Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, and Politics and Gender, and in several book chapters and conference presentations. Pearson’s book, Party Discipline in the House of Representatives, was published in 2015 by the University of Michigan Press. It combines quantitative data analysis and interviews of key elites to examine party leaders’ strategic use of their legislative prerogatives in rewarding loyal party members and punishing defectors. It is an extension of her dissertation that won the APSA Legislative Studies Carl Albert Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the area of legislative studies.
Dr. Pearson is working on a new book project, Gendered Partisanship in the House of Representatives, analyzing congresswomen’s pursuit of power in a partisan era. She is a recipient of the University of Minnesota Morse Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education. She has served as the advisor to 24 undergraduate honor students in Political Science and as graduate advisor to five students. Pearson is a valued University citizen, not only as an honored educator, but also in her service to the University, her college, and department on search and curriculum committees.
In 2002–03, Pearson was a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 1994 to 1998, she worked on Capitol Hill as a legislative assistant for two members of Congress. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned her B. A. cum laude from Claremont McKenna. She joined the University of Minnesota faculty in the Department of Political Science in 2004. Please join me in welcoming Professor Kathryn Pearson to UMRA and to enjoy this robust discussion of the current U.S. political scene.
— Kathleen O’Brien, UMRA Board
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