Barbara Burrell


Public Opinion Laboratory

Northern Illinois University

148 No. 3rd Street

DeKalb, Illinois 60115

815-753-9657                                                        

 

Education

 

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1982                                Political Science, Ph.D.

           Major field:  American Politics

           Minor field:  Research Methods

Dissertation: Local Party Officials in Connecticut and Michigan: Social and Political Characteristics, Performance and Organizational Vitality

 

                        Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

1975                Political Science, M.A.

Masters Thesis: A New Dimension in Political Participation: The Women’s Political Caucus

1971                                Political Science, B.S.

 

Academic Honors, Fellowships, and Grants

 

1998                Research Grant, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library

1994                                American Political Science Association Research Grant

1991-1994       Honorary Fellow, Women’s Studies Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison

1988                Boston University Summer Research Grant

1987-1989       Visiting Research Associate, Center for Research on Women, Wellesley College

1984                Radcliffe College Research Support Program Grant, Radcliffe College

1983                Graduate School of Public Affairs Grant, State University of New York

1980-1982       Rackham Graduate School Dissertation Grant, University of Michigan

1973‑1974       Premium for Academic Excellence Award, Iowa State University

 

Administrative experience

 

2000-2002       Interim Director, Public Opinion Laboratory, Northern Illinois University

1999-2006       Associate Director, Public Opinion Laboratory, Northern Illinois University

1991-1999             Head, Survey Design and Analysis Section, Wisconsin Survey Research Laboratory,  University of Wisconsin-Extension

 

 

Teaching Experience

 

1999-                             Associate Professor, Political Science, Northern Illinois University

Faculty Associate, Women’s Studies Program

1986‑1990       Assistant Professor, Political Science, Boston University

1985‑1986       Visiting Lecturer, College of the Holy Cross 

1982‑1985       Assistant Professor, Political Science, State University of New York/Albany

                        Adjunct Professor, Women’s Studies

1981-1982             Visiting Instructor, Political Science, Vassar College

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Gender in Campaigns for the U.S. Congress at the Millennium, University of Michigan Press, forthcoming, 2007

Women and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004.

Public Opinion, The First Ladyship and Hillary Clinton,  expanded edition, Routledge, 2001.

 

Public Opinion, The First Ladyship and Hillary Clinton, Garland Publishing, 1997.

 

A Woman’s Place Is in the House:  Campaigning for Congress in the Feminist Era, University of Michigan Press, 1994.

 

Profile of Wisconsin Women, Wisconsin State Government, 1994.

 

 “Campaign Financing:  Women’s Experience in the Modern Era.” In Women and Elective Office: Past, Present and Future, 2nd edition, Ed. Sue Thomas and Clyde Wilcox. New York:  Oxford University Press, 2005. 

 

“Political Parties, Women’s Organizations, and Efforts to Recruit Women Candidates.” In Gender and Elections: Change and Continuity through 2004, Ed. Susan J. Carroll and Richard L. Fox. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006

 

“Gender, Presidential Elections and Public Policy: Making Women’s Votes Matter,”  Women, Politics and Policy,  27,  1 and 2, 2005: 31-50.

 

“Money and Women’s Candidacies for Public Office.” In Women and American Politics: New Questions, New Directions, Ed. Susan Carroll. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

 

“Evaluation to Strengthen Distance Learning Programs.” Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 7, 1&2, Fall 2001/Winter 2002 with Kay S. Taube, Sharon R. Nellis, and Patricia Lasky.  

 

“Public Opinion and the First Ladies,” in Laura Bush: The Report to the First Lady. Edited by Robert P. Watson. Huntington, New York: Nova History Publications, 2001. 

 

“Hillary Rodham Clinton as First Lady: The People’s Perspective,” The Social Science Journal, 37, 4: 2001.

 

“Women and Representation in the 1990s: Old Barriers and new Resources?" in The U. S. House of Representatives: Reform or Rebuild?, editors Joseph Zimmerman and Wilma Rule, Preager Publishers, 2000.

 

“The Clintons and Gender Politics” in The Postmodern Presidency: Bill Clinton’s Legacy in U. S. Politics.   Edited by Steven Schier, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.

 

"The Presence and Influence of Women in Local U.S. Party Organizations: What Does It Matter?” in Comparative Political Parties and Party Elites: Essays in Honor of Samuel J. Eldersveld. Edited by Birol A. Yesilada, University of Michigan Press, 1999.

 

"The Governmental Status of the First Lady in Law and Public Perception" in Women in Politics: Outsiders or Insiders?, 3rd edition. Edited by Lois Duke Whitaker. Prentice Hall, 1999.

 

“Campaign Finance: Women’s Experience in the Modern Era” in Women in Elected Office: Past, Present, and Future. Edited by Sue Thomas and Clyde Wilcox. Oxford University Press, 1998.

 

“The Office of First Lady and Public Policy Making,” in The Other Elites: Women, Power, and Politics in the Executive Branch. Edited by MaryAnne Borrelli and Janet M. Martin. New York: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997.

 

“Faculty Rank Among Political Scientists and Reports on the Academic Environment: The Differential Impact of Gender on Observed Patterns,” with Vicki Hesli in PS: Political Science & Politics, March, 1995.

 

“Women’s Political Leadership and the State of the Parties,” in Daniel Shea and John Green, Eds, The State of the Parties. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1994.            

 

“Party Decline, Party Transformation and Gender Politics: the USA,” in Pippa Norris and Joni Lovenduski, eds., Gender and Party Politics. Sage Publications, 1994.

 

“Congress and Family Policy” in Donald Bacon, Roger Davidson, and Morton Keller, editors, The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.

 

“Women in American Politics” in Gillian Peel and Bruce Cain, Eds, Developments in American Government, second edition. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.

 

“Women Candidates in Open Seat Primaries for the U.S. House of Representatives, 1968-1990” Legislative Studies Quarterly, November, 1992.

 

“John Bailey’s Legacy: Political Parties and Women Candidacies for Public Office” in Lois Duke, ed., Women in  Politics: Have the Outsiders Become Insiders? Prentice-Hall Publishers, 1994. 

 

“The Presence of Women Candidates and the Role of Gender in Campaigns for the State Legislature in an Urban Setting,” Women and Politics, 3, 1990:85‑102.       

 

“Gender and Campaigns for the State Legislature in an Urban  Setting,” Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. Working Papers, Spring, 1989.

 

“Ideology and Campaign Activity at Three Levels of Government.” Political Behavior, 1989 with James Carlson & Kathleen Dolan.          

 

“The Political Opportunity of Women Candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1984. “Women and Politics Spring, 1988.

 

“A New Cleavage in the Democratic Party?: A Comparison of  Mondale and Hart Supporters at the Connecticut State Democratic Convention”  with James Carlson, Providence College, Polity, Fall, 1987.

 

 “Local Political Party Committees, Task Performance and Organizational Vitality,” Western Political Quarterly,  March, 1986.

 

“Women’s and Men’s Campaigns for the U.S. House of Representatives, 1972‑1982:  A Finance Gap?” American Politics Quarterly, July, 1985.

 

“A New Dimension in Political Participation: The Women’s Political Caucus” in A Portrait of Marginality, edited by Marianne Githens and Jewel Prestage. New York: David McKay Company, 1977.

 

“Women Candidates: Not a Cinderella Story,” Campaigns and Elections, January/February, 1987

 
Book Reviews

 

“Children, Mothers, and U.S. Presidents,” a review of Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression by Robert Cohen and Faith of Our Mothers by Harold Gullan, Presidential Studies Quarterly, 33, no. 1, 2003.

 

Constructing Public Opinion by Justin Lewis, Social Science Journal. 39, Number 2, 2002.

 

Roe v. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History by N.E. H. Hull and Peter Charles Hoffer, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 5, #3, Fall 2002

 

Gender Dynamics in Congressional Elections by Richard Fox, American Political Science Review, September 1999

 

House and Senate by Ross Baker, Congress and the Presidency, Spring, 1990

 

Review Essay on Women and Electoral Politics, Polity, Spring, 1986

 

The Reapportionment Puzzle by Bruce Cain, American Political Science Review, June, 1985

 

Paternalism, Conflict, and Coproduction:  Learning from Citizen Participation in Western Europe, edited by Lawrence Susskind, Citizen Participation, Winter, 1985.

 

 

Papers (1990-2006)

 

“Windows of Opportunity: Recruitment Pools, Gender Politics and Congressional Open Seats.”

2006 Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

 

“The Gender Gap in Presidential Voting” A View from the States.” 2004 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

 

“The Status of Women in Illinois Politics,” 2004 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL with Andrew Schott.

 

“The Policy Consequences of Gender Politics.”  Seventh International Women’s Policy Research Conference “Women Working to Make a Difference,” Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Washington, DC, 2003.

 

“Sex and Gender in Campaigns for Public Office: the First Lady Runs for the U.S. Senate.”  2001 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

 

“Campaign Finance As a Women’s Issue.” 2001 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.

 

"Hillary Rodham Clinton as First Lady: The People's Perspective." 1999 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.

 

"Women and Local Party Leadership," The State of the Parties conference, Bliss Institute for the Study of Applied Politics, University of Akron, 1997

 

“The Governmental Status of the First Lady in Law and in Public Perception.” 1997 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

 

“Do U.S. Parties Serve as Linking Mechanisms for Women in Achieving Political Influence and Leadership?” 1997 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

 

“Public Opinion and Hillary Rodham Clinton.”  1995 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.

 

“Did We Get More than One ‘Year of the Woman’?: Defending and Expanding the Victories of 1992 in U.S. House of Representatives’ Elections of 1994.”  1995 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.

 

“Women Who Have Dared to Run and What It Means:  The Backgrounds of Female Candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, 1968-1990.”  1991 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

 

“Competition and Competitors in Open Seat Primaries for the U.S. House of Representatives, 1968‑1988,” with James Carlson, Providence College. 1990 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.

 

Research and Other Professional Experience

 

 

Invited speaker: Susan B. Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership, University of Rochester, the Susan B. Anthony Conversations on Contemporary Issues, “The First Lady as First Person: Can She Get a Life?”, October 2000

 

Invited Speaker, Conference on “Politics, Rights and Representation,” The University of Chicago, October 1999.

 

Convocation Lecturer, Women's History Month, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa  1999

 

Discussion Leader, Baraboo, WI Public Library, Reading group on the First Ladies 1998 (State Historical Society Grant)

 

Co-editor, Women and Politics in Democratic States series with Dorothy McBride Stetson, Garland Publishing, 1997-

 

Participant, Spoors Conference on the Study of Leadership, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Summer, 1988.

 

Researcher, Institutional Policy Research on Women’s Education at Harvard and Radcliffe Office, 1978‑1981.

 

 
 
Professional Activities

 

President’s Commission on the Status of Women, Northern Illinois University, 2001-, Chair, 2004-2005

Executive Committee, Women’s Studies Program, Northern Illinois University, 2003-2004

Executive Committee, Midwest Political Science Association, 1997-1999

Editorial Board, American Journal of Political Science, 1997-

Editorial Board, American Politics Quarterly, 1997-

Executive Board, Political Organizations and Parties Section, American Political Science Association, 1997-1998

Chair, Mary Lepper Award Committee, Women’s Caucus in Political Science, 1998-2001

Member, the University of Wisconsin System Initiative on the Status of Women’s Committee on the Status of Women, 1998-1999

Advisory Committee, University of Wisconsin System Women’s Studies Librarian , 1996-1999

Chair, Political Organizations and Parties Panel Section, American Political Science Association, 1996.

Treasurer, Women and Politics Research Section, American Political Science Association, 1994-1996.

President, Midwest Women’s Caucus in Political Science, 1993-1994.

Co‑chair, Northeastern Women’s Caucus in Political Science, 1987.            

Chair, Women’s Caucus in Political Science Task Force on Equal Rights, 1987-1988; American Government Textbook Review

Committee, 1989-1991                                   

Member, Social Science Curriculum Committee, Boston University

Honors Coordinator, Political Science Department, Boston  University

Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Political Science Department, Boston University

 

COMMUNITY SERVICE

 

Member, Personnel Committee, Hopkinton, Ma., 1989‑1990.

Member, Policy Committee, Wisconsin Women’s Network, 1990-1991.

Member, State Policy Council, National Women’s Political Caucus- Wisconsin, 1990-1991.

Volunteer, South Madison Coalition for the Elderly, 1997-1999

High School Principal's Parent Advisory Committee, DeForest High School, 1997-1998

Frameworks for the Future Forum, DeForest, WI School District, 1999