Elizabeth Baisley

Elizabeth Baisley serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University, where she is also a Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity. Her academic credentials include a PhD and MA from Princeton University, an MA from Queen's University, and an Honours BA from Wilfrid Laurier University. For the 2024/2025 academic year, she acts as Field Convenor for Canadian Politics and Gender & Politics within the department.

Baisley's research centers on Canadian politics with deep specialization in gender and LGBTQ+ representation, political parties, interest groups, and social movements. She employs methodological pluralism—integrating archival research, interviews, observations, survey data, and experiments—to analyze rights and representation dynamics. Her work examines how political institutions and actors drive social change, particularly regarding marginalized communities.

Analysis of her publication trajectory reveals intensifying focus on LGBTQ+ electoral representation since 2020, with 2025 works investigating district competitiveness for LGBTQ2S+ candidates, campaign financing disparities, and voter perceptions of transgender politicians. These build upon foundational research on party position shifts regarding LGBTQ+ rights (2024) and comparative human rights norm diffusion (2016), demonstrating consistent engagement with representation theory across Canadian and global contexts.

No scientific awards, fellowships, or medals were documented in the source materials.

Baisley actively supervises graduate students in diversity in Canadian politics, political institutions, parties, interest groups, and qualitative/mixed-method research. Her supervision page details specific research interests including Canada in comparative perspective. She leads the R&R Lab (Representation and Rights Lab), which facilitates collaborative research on political representation and rights advancement in Canadian and international frameworks.