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List of the most influential female people in Political Science,

#451

Dorothee Bohle

#114004

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Dorothee Bohle is a German political scientist and professor at the European University Institute in Florence. Her work focuses on international political economy, European integration and eastward enlargement, as well as transformation processes in Central and Eastern Europe. She won the 2013 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research for her book Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery .

#452

Valerie Jane Bunce

#108302

Overall Influence

Valerie Jane Bunce is an American political scientist, currently the Aaron Binenkorb Professor of International Studies and a Professor of Government at Cornell University. She studies democratization, international democratic movements, ethnic politics, and governance in communist and post-communist states.

#453

María Teresa Belandria

María Teresa Belandria

#99901

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

María Teresa Belandria is a Venezuelan diplomat, lawyer, professor of political science, and politician who was named by Juan Guaidó and received as Venezuela's ambassador to Brazil in February 2019. She served as the international coordinator for the Venezuelan political party, Come Venezuela . On 4 June 2019, the Brazilian government approved her credentials and recognized her as the official ambassador of Venezuela.

#454

Neta Crawford

#73141

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Neta C. Crawford is an American political scientist. She is Montague Burton Chair in International Relations at the University of Oxford and holds a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College. Crawford previously served as professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts.

#455

Shirley Robin Letwin

#53969

Overall Influence

1924 - 1993 (69 years)

Shirley Robin Letwin was an American academic who lived in London. Biography Early life Shirley Robin Letwin was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her family were Jewish immigrants from Kiev. She graduated from the University of Chicago, where she was taught by Friedrich Hayek, and did graduate studies at the London School of Economics. She decided to move to England permanently in 1965.

#456

Kay Coles James

#75674

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Kay Coles James is an American public official who served as secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia from January 2022 to August 2023, and as the director for the United States Office of Personnel Management under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. Previous to the OPM appointment, she served as Virginia secretary of health and human resources under then-Governor George Allen and was the dean of Regent University's government school. She is the president and founder of the Gloucester Institute, a leadership training center for young African Americans.

#457

Mona Lena Krook

#76304

Overall Influence

Mona Lena Krook is an American political scientist. She is a Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, where she is also the Chair of the Women and Politics Ph.D. Program. She studies the political representation of women, particularly gender quotas in governments and the phenomenon of violence against women in politics.

#458

Nurun Nahar Faizannesa

Nurun Nahar Faizannesa

#101953

Overall Influence

1931 - 2004 (73 years)

Nurun Nahar Faizannesa was a Bangladeshi feminist and social activist. She was the first elected female member of the syndicate of the University of Dhaka and the National Pay Commission of Bangladesh.

#459

Georgina Waylen

#84048

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Georgina Nicola Alexandra Waylen, is a British political scientist, specialising in comparative politics, political economy, and gender and politics. Since April 2012, she has been Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester. She previously taught at the University of Sheffield, the University of Salford and the University of East Anglia. She was a visiting scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University from 2016 to 2017, and has been a visiting professor in the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics since 2018.

#460

Catherine Zuckert

#75049

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Catherine H. Zuckert is an American political philosopher and Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Books Postmodern Platos Natural Right and the American Imagination: Political Philosophy in Novel FormPlato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues Machiavelli's Politics The Truth about Leo Strauss with Michael P. Zuckert, University of Chicago PressLeo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy with Michael P. Zuckert, University of Chicago Press

#461

Diana Mutz

#41838

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Prof. Dr. Diana Carole Mutz is the Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also the director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics. She is known for her research in the field of political communication. She formerly served as editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Political Behavior.

#462

Leslie R. Wolfe

#44413

Overall Influence

1943 - 2017 (74 years)

Leslie Rosenberg Wolfe was an American women's rights activist, known for her work as the longtime leader of the Center for Women Policy Studies. She particularly focused her activism on the intersection of racism and sexism faced by women of color.

#463

Janine R. Wedel

#78548

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Janine R. Wedel is an American anthropologist and university professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and a senior research fellow of the New America Foundation. She is the author of several books and many articles on some key systemic processes of the day. She is the first anthropologist to win the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

#464

Lykke Friis

#89639

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Lykke Friis is Prorector for Education at the University of Copenhagen and is a former Danish politician for the party Venstre and former Minister for Climate and Energy and equal rights. Prior to her political career she has once before been Prorector at the University of Copenhagen and held the position from 2006 - 2009. Prior to her appointment as government minister, she was not a member of Venstre.

#465

Alexandra Goujon

Alexandra Goujon

#59283

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Alexandra Goujon is a French political scientist. She is a professor of political science at the University of Burgundy. She specializes in political conflict and regime change in Eastern Europe, particularly Ukraine and Belarus.

#466

W. Meredith Bacon

#100099

Overall Influence

W. Meredith Bacon is a retired political science professor and LGBT-rights activist. When she changed her name and transitioned to female in 2005, she retained the "W" as a first initial that was changed to stand for nothing and retained her lifelong middle name, Meredith.

#467

Lilly Goren

#45126

Overall Influence

Lilly J. Goren is an American political scientist and historian. She is a professor of political science and global studies at Carroll University, where she has also been Chair of the Department of History, Political Science and Religious Studies. Goren uses popular culture, such as literature and film, to understand American politics. She has published work on how popular culture affects public perceptions of political leadership by women, how feminist ideas are reflected and affected by popular culture, and the politics of re-distribution in the United States Congress.

#468

Beth Simone Noveck

Beth Simone Noveck

#64494

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Beth Simone Noveck is the 1st Chief Innovation Officer of New Jersey, Director of the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University, and Director of The Governance Lab. She is also affiliated faculty with the Institute for Experiential AI. She is the author of Solving Public Problems: How to Fix our Government and Change Our World , Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Government , Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful , and co-editor of the State of Play: Law and Virtua...

#469

Kelly Greenhill

#76210

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Kelly M. Greenhill is an American political scientist. She is an associate professor at Tufts University and a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She specializes in weapons of mass migration, forced displacement, and foreign policy.

#470

Corinne McLaughlin

#37554

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Corinne McLaughlin was an American author and educator. She was executive director of The Center for Visionary Leadership and a Fellow of The World Business Academy and the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland. McLaughlin and her partner Gordon Davidson founded Sirius, an ecological village in Massachusetts. She coordinated a national task force for President Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development and has taught politics at American University. McLaughlin has lectured in the U.S., Europe and South America. She is co-author of The Practical Visionary: A New World Guide to Spiritual Growth and...

#471

Kimberly Hutchings

#46477

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Kimberly Hutchings is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. She is a leading scholar in international relations theory. She has extensively researched and published on international political theory in respect to Kantian and Hegelian philosophy, international and global ethics, Feminist theory and philosophy, and politics and violence. Her work is influenced by the scholarly tradition that produced the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory.

#472

Aili M. Tripp

#106151

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Aili Mari Tripp is a Finnish and American political scientist, currently the Wangari Maathai Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Education and early career Tripp is a dual Finnish-U.S. citizen. She was born in the United Kingdom to a Finnish mother and American father, and spent fifteen years of her childhood in Tanzania. In 1983, she graduated with a B.A. in political science from the University of Chicago, earning an MA in Middle East studies form the same institution in 1985. She then received a PhD in political science from Northwestern University in 1990.

#473

Diane Stone

#77936

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Diane L. Stone is an Australian-British academic. Career Diane Stone has been a founding vice president of the International Public Policy Association for 8 years until June 2022. She is Professor of Global Policy at the European University Institute in the School of Transnational Governance. Until 2019, she worked at the University of Warwick for 23 years.

#474

Marilyn Tavenner

Marilyn Tavenner

#42959

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Marilyn Barbour Tavenner is an American government official and health-care executive who served as the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, from 2011 to 2015.

#475

Colette Capriles

#72003

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Colette Capriles is a Venezuelan political scientist. As a professor of political philosophy and social sciences at Simón Bolívar University, she served as Head of the Political Science Section. She specializes in the study of anti-liberal political thought and culture, and in Venezuelan politics. Capriles is a frequent media commentator and opinion columnist on these topics.

#476

Linda Cardinal

#55991

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Linda Cardinal is a Franco-Ontarian political scientist. She is a University Professor and a Canada Research Chair in Canadian Francophonie and Public Policies at the University of Ottawa. Cardinal was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2013 and honoured with the Ordre des Palmes Académiques and Member of the Order of Canada. She was also the first coordinator of the francophone studies program at the University of Ottawa.

#477

Trifonia Melibea Obono

Trifonia Melibea Obono

#83927

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (43 years)

Trifonia Melibea Obono Ntutumu Obono is an Equatorial Guinean novelist, political scientist, academic and LGBT activist. Her novel La Bastarda is the first novel by a female Equatorial Guinean writer to be translated into English.

#478

Krystyna Chojnicka

#95576

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Prof. Dr Hab. Krystyna Chojnicka is a Polish lawyer and political scientist. She finished her law degree and a PhD in political science at Jagiellonian University. In 2008, she was voted the dean of the Faculty of Law and Administration at Jagiellonian University.

#479

Lierre Keith

#15089

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Lierre Keith is an American writer, radical feminist, food activist, and radical environmentalist. Biography Keith attended Brookline High School in Massachusetts. She began her public involvement in the feminist movement as the founding editor of Vanessa and Iris: A Journal for Young Feminists . During this same period, she also volunteered with a group called Women Against Violence Against Women in Cambridge, where she participated in educational events and protest campaigns. In 1984, she was a founding member of Minor Disturbance, a protest group against militarism from a feminist perspective.

#480

Frédérique Matonti

#69092

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Frédérique Matonti is a French political scientist. She is a professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. She is an expert in the history of political philosophy, political parties, and gender studies.

#481

Jurema Werneck

#116592

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Jurema Werneck is the Brazilian director for Amnesty International in Brazil. She is a black feminist, physician, author, and doctor in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is also a board member of the Global Fund for Women. Her works include, "Estelizacao de mulheres um desafio para a bioetica?", "Saúde da população negra", "O Livro Da Saude Das Mulheres Negras", and "Black Women's Health: Our Steps Come Away".

#482

Anne Phillips

#32805

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Anne Phillips , is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics , where she was previously Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003.

#483

Emma Sky

#88571

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Emma Sky, OBE is a British expert on conflict, reconciliation and stability, who has worked mainly in the Middle East. She served in Iraq as the political advisor to US General Ray Odierno and General David Petraeus during the surge. She is director of the International Leadership Center at Yale University, overseeing the Yale World Fellows Program and other initiatives. She is a Senior Fellow at Yale's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, where she lectures on Middle East politics and global affairs.

#484

Elisabeth Jean Wood

#95061

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Elisabeth Jean Wood is an American political scientist, currently the Franklin Muzzy Crosby Professor of the Human Environment, professor of political science, and professor of international and area studies at Yale University. She studies sexual violence during war, the emergence of political insurgencies and individuals' participation in them, and democratization, with a focus on Latin American politics and African politics.

#485

Margaret Anstee

Margaret Anstee

#61127

Overall Influence

1926 - 2016 (90 years)

Dame Margaret Joan Anstee, DCMG was a British diplomat who served at the United Nations for over four decades , rising to the rank of an Under-Secretary-General in 1987. She was the first woman to hold this position.

#486

Marysia Zalewski

#88188

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Marysia Zalewski is an academic associated with feminist approaches to international relations theory. She is a professor of international relations in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University. Previously, she was a professor and head of the School of Social Science at the University of Aberdeen.

#487

Kimberly Marten

#94996

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Kimberly Marten is an author and scholar specializing in international security, foreign policy, Russia, and environmental politics. She held the 5-year-term Ann Whitney Olin Professorship of Political Science at Barnard College from 2013 to 2018, and then returned to chair the Barnard Political Science Department for a second time from 2018-2021. She was the director of the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute from 2015 to 2019, and the Harriman Institute published a profile of her career. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Inte...

#488

Karin Priester

#83680

Overall Influence

1941 - 2020 (79 years)

Karis Priester was a German historian and political scientist. Biography Priester studied romance languages, history, philosophy, and political science at the University of Cologne, Aix-Marseille University, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of Florence. She obtained her doctorate in history and her habilitation in political science from the University of Marburg with a thesis on Italian Marxism. After teaching at the University of Giessen and RWTH Aachen University, she was a professor of political sociology at the University of Münster starting in 1980. She retired in February 2007.

#489

Elizabeth F. Cohen

#59848

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Elizabeth F. Cohen is an American political scientist. She is a professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and a senior research associate at the Campbell Public Affairs Institute. She is a political theorist who studies citizenship, immigration, and value of time in politics.

#490

Alison Broinowski

#91410

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Alison Elizabeth Broinowski, is an Australian academic, journalist, writer and former Australian public servant. Biography Alison Woodroffe was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 25 October 1941. She attended the Wilderness School from 1946 to 1958, and in 1962 she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Adelaide. In December 1963, she married diplomat Richard Philip Broinowski. From 1963 to 1964, she was a cadet for the Australian Department of External Affairs before beginning her extensive public service career, including various diplomatic postings, with the De...

#491

Keiko McDonald

#37477

Overall Influence

1940 - 2008 (68 years)

Keiko McDonald was an American orientalist. Biography Keiko McDonald was born in Nara, Japan, on January 1, 1940. In 1963, McDonald graduated from Osaka University of Foreign Studies with a degree in English. She received an MA in English from the State University of California-Sacramento in 1966. Later attending the University of Oregon where she received her Doctor of Arts in 1971 and a PhD in 1974.

#492

Renee Marlin-Bennett

#79679

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Renee Marlin-Bennett , is a professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. Her research on global problems probes power, information flows, borders, and bodies. The research draws upon approaches from international theory, pragmatism, international political sociology, and global political economy. Early in her career, her focus was on the evolution of rules that order global practices as well as those that provide the basis for disorder. She has examined substantive areas such as trade, intellectual property, information, and privacy to examine how contestation, rhetorical fram...

#493

Anne Tiernan

#112958

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Professor Anne Tiernan is from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Tiernan is a writer, educator, political scientist, and consultant in areas of public administration, public policy and research analysis. She is known for her research expertise in policy and has presented at conferences both nationally and internationally. She has a regular weekly radio slot on 'Weekends with Tim Cox' on 612 ABC Brisbane. Tiernan is currently the Professor at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University and Fellow of ANZSOG.

#494

Hanne Marthe Narud

#107257

Overall Influence

1958 - 2012 (54 years)

Hanne Marthe Narud was a Norwegian political scientist. She was awarded the cand.polit. degree in 1988 and the dr.polit. degree in 1996. She was a professor of political science at the University of Oslo, and as a scholar on political coalitions and election research she was widely cited in the media; in 2008 reported to be the most cited female scholar in the Norwegian press. In 2009 she was elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

#495

Akhtar Imam

#56410

Overall Influence

1917 - 2009 (92 years)

Akhtar Imam was a Bangladeshi educationist, feminist and social activist. Early life Imam was born on 30 December 1917 in Narinda, Old Dhaka. She completed her matriculation and intermediate exams from Eden Girl's High School and Intermediate College, Dhaka in 1933 and 1935 respectively. In 1937, she completed her honors in philosophy from Bethune College of Calcutta University. She was awarded the Gangamani Devi Medal for being first in her batch. In 1946, she finished her master's degree in philosophy from the University of Dhaka. In 1952 she was awarded a scholarship from the Bengal Muslim Education Fund by the Pakistani Government in 1952 to pursue higher education outside the country.

#496

Jean Hardisty

#102317

Overall Influence

1945 - 2015 (70 years)

Jean V. Hardisty was a political scientist and lesbian radical feminist activist who became a national resource for human rights movements seeking social and economic justice and an end to bigotry based on race, gender, or class. She was a senior scholar with the Wellesley Centers for Women.

#497

Lisa Ellis

#123028

Overall Influence

Elisabeth Ellis, known as Lisa Ellis, is an American-born New Zealand political theorist and professor in the Department of Politics and Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago. Ellis is director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program at the University of Otago.

#498

Corinne Debaine-Francfort

#43788

Overall Influence

Corinne Debaine-Francfort is a French archaeologist and sinologist, a researcher at the CNRS specialised in the archaeology on Eastern Central Asia and in the protohistory of north-west China. Career Debaine-Francfort has been a Doctor of Far Eastern studies at Paris Diderot University since 1989 and research director at CNRS since 1995. She is a member of a team carrying out research on Central Asia. She has taken part in various archaeological expeditions in this region, and in the first Sino-foreign excavation to be authorized by China since 1949. Since 1995 she has been co-director of the Franco-Chinese archaeological mission to Sinkiang.

#499

Eugénie Mérieau

#66415

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (39 years)

Eugénie Mérieau is a French political scientist and constitutionalist, specialising in politics of Thailand, authoritarian constitutionalism and legal transplants. She is an associate professor of Public Law at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.

#500

Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier

#69542

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier is an American political scientist and Distinguished University Professor at the Ohio State University. Box-Steffensmeier graduated magna cum laude from Coe College in mathematics and political science and received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1993 with her dissertation Candidates, Contributors, and Campaign Strategy: It's About Time. In 2008 she was made a Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology and, received the Warren E. Miller Award for Meritorious Service to the Social Sciences from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research in 2013.

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