May 2, 2008
Heather Ondercin (Ph.D. 2007) won the "Best Dissertation Award on Women and Politics for 2007" from the American Political Science Association's Women and Politics Research Section. Dr. Heather Ondercin is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University. (For more information about her research, click here.)
Dissertation Title:
" The Changing Social Definitions of Men and Women and Their Effect on the Partisan
Gender Gap, 1953-2003. "
Committee: Suzanna Linn (Chair), Susan Welch, Lee Ann Banaszak, Jennifer Mittelstadt.