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Kira Sanbonmatsu

Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University

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Kira Sanbonmatsu is Senior Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at the Eagleton Institute of Politics and Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. Her research interests include gender, race/ethnicity, parties, public opinion, and state politics. She is the coauthor (with Susan J. Carroll and Debbie Walsh) of the CAWP report Poised to Run: Women’s Pathways to the State Legislatures (2009). She is also the author of Where Women Run: Gender and Party in the American States (University of Michigan Press, 2006) and Democrats, Republicans, and the Politics of Women’s Place (University of Michigan Press, 2002). Her articles have appeared in such journals as American Journal of Political Science, Politics & Gender, and Party Politics. She co-edits the CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics at the University of Michigan Press with Susan J. Carroll. Sanbonmatsu received her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She was previously Associate Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University.