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Dawn Langan Teele is the SNF Agora Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on gender and politics, particularly the historical and comparative dimensions of women's political representation, electoral systems, and the interplay of gender with political institutions. She is renowned for her award-winning book Forging the Franchise: The Political Origins of the Women’s Vote (2018) and co-authored Good Reasons to Run: Women and Political Candidacy (2020). Her work has been recognized with prestigious awards, including the Theda Skocpol Emerging Scholar Award (2023) and the Gregory Luebbert Prize (2020).
Teele holds a BA in Economics from Reed College and a PhD in Political Science from Yale University. She has held teaching roles at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on comparative politics, gender studies, and research methodology. She co-founded the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network (EGEN) and serves as a lead editor for Comparative Political Studies and associate editor for Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics.
Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Research Council of Norway, and others. Key themes in her work include the impact of electoral systems on gender representation, historical causes of women’s suffrage, and the ethics of field experiments in social sciences. Her scholarship has been featured in Foreign Affairs, National Public Radio, and The Washington Post.
