Women

Gender Identity

Reproductive Technologies

Complexity Theory

Trans-corporeality

Education

• Ph.D., Political Science, Rutgers University 
• M.A., Political Science, Rutgers University
• 76 graduate hours in Political Science, Portland State University
• Bachelor’s degree, Idaho State

Research Interests

• Women and politics
• The politics of reproductive and genetic technologies
• Maternal political theory
• Sex and gender identity
• The nexus between complexity theory and trans-corporealit

Selected Publications

• “Being There Matters: Redefining the Model Public Servant in Virginia,” with Janet Hutchinson, Public Administration Review, January/February 2009, vol. 69, No1, 29-39.  Reprinted in, Serving the Public Interest:  Profiles of Successful and Innovative Public Servants, Norma Riccucci, ed. M. E. Sharpe, 2012.
• “Androgenesis and Mothering Human Identity,” in Mothering at the 21st Century: Identity, Policy, Experience and Agency, Andrea O’Reilly, ed. Columbia University Press, spring 2010.
• “Lay Understandings of Sex/Gender and Genetics: A Method Preserving Polyvocal Coder Input,” with Celeste Condit, Enid Sefcovic, Carolina Acosta-Alzuru, Sonja Brown-Givens, Cindy Dietz, and Roxanne Parrot, Sex Roles, October, 2003.
• “Human Equality, Affirmative Action, and Genetic Models of Human Variation,” with Celeste Condit and Paul J. Achter, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Volume 4, #1, Spring, 2001.