Dr. Lee Banaszak

Biography

Lee Ann Banaszak is a Professor of Political Science at Penn State University. She received her Ph.D. from Washington University in 1989. Her primary research interests include comparative political behavior, social movements, and women's politics. She has published extensively in prominent academic journals such as Social Forces, Electoral Studies, Public Opinion Quarterly, and the American Political Science Review. Her books include 'Movements Succeed Fail' published by Princeton University Press and 'Women's Movements Facing Reconfigured State', edited with Karen Beckwith and Dieter Rucht, published by Cambridge University Press. Additionally, she has edited '100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment' in collaboration with Holly McCammon, published by Oxford University Press. Banaszak began her academic career at Penn State in 1994 after previously working at Iowa State University. Her areas of interest include American Politics, Comparative Politics, participation and voting, public opinion, social movements, protest, and gender politics, particularly in Western Europe and German-speaking countries.

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