Christina Wolbrecht is associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame.  Her areas of expertise include American politics, political parties, gender and politics, and American political development.  Wolbrecht is the author of The Politics of Women's Rights (Princeton, 2000), which received the 2001 Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award from the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the APSA, as well as the author or co-author of a number of articles published in leading political science journals.  She is the co-editor (with Karen Beckwith and Lisa Baldez) of Political Women and American Democracy (Cambridge, 2008) and (with Rodney E. Hero) of The Politics of Democratic Inclusion (Temple, 2005).  Wolbrecht is currently working on several collaborative projects, including:  using new ecological inference techniques to investigate women's voting behavior after suffrage, examining the impact of framing on attitudes about homosexuality, and explaining the changing positions of the American political parties on education policy.