Ph.D., Harvard University
B.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst

Personal website: https://kira-sanbonmatsu.squarespace.com/

• "Representation Matters: Women in the U.S. Congress." 2017. CAWP report (coauthored)
• "Gender and Electoral Politics in the United States.” 2015. Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. (with Kelly Dittmar)
• “Why Not a Woman of Color? The Candidacies of U.S. Women of Color for Statewide Executive Office.” 2015. In Oxford Handbooks Online, ed. Desmond King. New York: Oxford University Press.
• "Electing Women of Color: The Role of Campaign Trainings" 2015, Journal of Women, Politics & Policy
• More Women Can Run: Gender and Pathways to the State Legislatures, with Susan J. Carroll, 2013, Oxford University Press.
• "Poised to Run: Women's Pathways to the State Legislatures" with Susan J. Carroll and Debbie Walsh, 2009, Center for American Women and Politics.
• “Do Gender Stereotypes Transcend Party? ” with Kathleen Dolan. 2009, Political Research Quarterly
• Where Women Run: Gender and Party in the American States (University of Michigan Press, 2006)
• Democrats, Republicans, and the Politics of Women's Place (University of Michigan Press, 2002)

American politics, Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Parties, Elections, Public Opinion, and State Politics

Fall 2018: Women and American Politics