Eileen L. McDonagh

Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University

343 Meserve Hall
(617) 373-4403
(617) 373-5311 (fax)
e.mcdonagh@neu.edu

Areas of Study

American Politics, Gender and the Law, American Political Development, Methodology

Selected Publications

The Motherless State: Women's Political Leadership and American Democracy University of Chicago Press, forthcoming, February 2009
Playing with the Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal in Sports. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008
Breaking the Abortion Deadlock: From Choice To Consent. New York: Oxford University Press,1996
"Citizenship and Women’s Election to Political Office: The Power of Public Policies", in Women’s Equal Citizenship, edited by Linda McClain and Joanna Grossman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, forthcoming)
"Forging a New Grammar of Equality and Difference: Progressive Era Suffrage and Reform", in Formative Acts: Reckoning with Agency in American Politics edited by Stephen Skowronek and Matt Glassman (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007)
"The Next Step After Roe: Using Fundamental Rights, Equal Protection Analysis to Nullify Restrictive State-Level Abortion Legislation", Emory Law Review (2007) 56:4, 1173-1214
"Political Citizenship and Democratization: The Gender Paradox", American Political Science Review, 96:3, 535-552 (September 2002)
"Democratization and Political Inclusion: The Case of Women Leaders", Harvard International Law Review (Fall 1999)
"Race, Class, and Gender in the Progressive Era: Restructuring State and Society", in Sidney Milkis and Jerome Mileur (eds) Progressivism, Then and Now. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998
"From Choice to Consent in the Abortion Debate" in John Brigham (ed) States, Citizens, and Questions of Significance: Proceedings of the Tenth Roundtable on Law and Semiotics. New York: Lang, 1998
"Breaking the Abortion Deadlock?: Twenty-five Years After Roe", A Roundtable Discussion with Eileen McDonagh, Patricia Ireland, Karen O'Connor, and Robin West, Studies in American Political Development (1998)
"The Eclectic Center of the New Institutionalism: Azxes of Analysis in Comparative Perspective". Social Science History 19:4 (Winter 1995) (co-authored with Philip Ethington)

Fellowships

Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 2009-2010.
Research Fellowship, American Association of University Women (AAUW), two year grant for research on American political development, democratization, and women's political leadership, 2004-2006
Scholar-in-Residence (see above), CCNY/CUNY, Department of Political Science, Women's Studies Program, 2004-2006

Selected Professional Activities

Recipient of Mentor Award, Women's Caucus, American Political Science Association, 2008: For Mentoring graduate students and assistant professors.
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), Harvard University, 2005
Fellow, Murray Research Center, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 1999-2001
Council, American Political Science Association, 1998-2000
President, Women and Politics Section, American Political Science Association, 1999-2000
Executive Council, Politics and History Section, American Political Science Association, 1997-1998
Editorial Board, Social Science History, Social Politics, Polity

Courses 2005-2006

Spring 2006

POL G332 Gender and Politics

Courses 2004-2005

Spring 2005

POL G201 Methods of Analysis