Women, Gender, and Politics Research (Section 16)
Founded in 1986, the purpose of the Women, Gender, and Politics Research (Section 16) is to foster the study of women and politics within the discipline of political science.
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EDITORIAL TEAM FOR POLITICS & GENDER
Our section journal, Politics & Gender, is hosted by the Women & Politics Ph.D. Program in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University (inaugurated July 1, 2022). Dr. Mona Lena Krook serves as Editor, joined by Associate Editors Dr. Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd, Dr. Kelly Dittmar, Dr. Elena Gambino, Dr. Summer Lindsey, and Dr. Kira Sanbonmatsu, with Brit Anlar filling the role of Book Review Assistant. This all-Rutgers team spans the discipline in terms of seniority, subfield, topic specialization, and research methods; in an effort to reflect the full and growing community of gender and politics scholars, the members of the new editorial board complement the editors in terms of institutional diversity, seniority, topics, and methods.
The Editorial Selection Committee was particularly impressed by the team’s vision for the journal including enhancing the publication’s presence on social media, expanding the journal’s reach to international authors and audiences, developing greater outreach to practitioners, and promoting intersectionality research. Their appointment runs until 2028. The editors marked the journal’s 20th anniversary of a Critical Perspectives symposium and with the May 2025 Expanding the reach of Politics & Gender conference at Rutgers on its 20th anniversary to reflect on how far the journal, and the field, have come in 20 years in raising the visibility of gender and politics research.