Leslie Schwindt-Bayer
Office: 220 Professional Bldg.
Phone: 573-882-7268
Email: Schwindt@missouri.edu
Web: web.missouri.edu/~schwindtbayerl/
CV (pdf)
Leslie Schwindt-Bayer received her BA at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1996. She got her Master’s degree in Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona (1999) and her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Arizona in 2003. She served as Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Mississippi from 2003-2007 when she moved to the University of Missouri. She was a U.S. Fulbright Fellow in Colombia in 2003, and in Fall 2008, she worked at the University of Notre Dame as a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Professor Schwindt-Bayer has been Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri since 2010.
Research Statement
Professor Schwindt-Bayer’s research focuses on comparative political institutions, legislatures and representation, gender and politics, and Latin America. She is the author of Political Power and Women’s Representation in Latin America (Oxford University Press 2010) and has written numerous articles in journals including the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Electoral Studies, Politics & Gender, and Perspectives on Politics..
Courses Taught
Introduction to Comparative Politics
Women and Politics
Politics of Latin America
Latin American Politics through Film
Introduction to Comparative Politics (graduate)
Comparative Political Institutions (graduate)
Recent Representative Publications
"Still Supermadres? Gender and the Policy Priority of Latin American Legislators." 2006, American Journal of Political Science, 50: 570-585.
"The Incumbency Advantage and Women's Election to Legislative Office." 2005. Electoral Studies. 24: 227-244.
"An Integrated Model of Women's Representation." 2005. Journal of Politics. 67: 407-428.
"Women on the Sidelines: Women's Representation on Committees in Latin American Legislatures." 2005. American Journal of Political Science. 49: 420-436.
"Gender Turnover and Roll Call Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives." 2004. Legislative Studies Quarterly. 29: 215-229.