Goldstein Associate Professor in Public Affairs at Washington College, in Chestertown, Maryland. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from American University in 1999. She writes in the areas of gender politics and religion and politics and is the coauthor of Women With a Mission: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Women Clergy (with Laura Olson and Sue E. S. Crawford) and Women and Politics: Paths to Power and Political Influence (with Julie Dolan and Michele Swers).