She is affiliated with Gender and Women’s Studies and Latin American Studies at the University of Kentucky. Her research focuses on issues of representation, including how women work within the government to promote their policy objectives and the determinants of women’s political participation and civic engagement. In 2013 she was a Research Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her peer-reviewed research appears in Comparative Political Studies, Gender & Politics, and Conflict Management and Peace Science, The Journal of Political Science, and an edited volume on women’s political representation.