Tiffany D. Barnes is a Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a PhD from Rice University and specializes in Comparative Politics with a focus on gender and politics, Latin American politics, and political leadership. Her research examines institutional influences on political behavior through quantitative and qualitative methods. Education: PhD, Rice University Her work has secured over $600,000 in grants and includes authorship of four books: Gendering Legislative Behavior , Working Class Inclusion , The Representational Consequences of Electronic Voting Reform , and Women, Politics, and Power . She co-edits the Elements in Gender & Politics series for Cambridge University Press and serves as editor at the British Journal of Political Science . Scientific awards include the Emerging Scholar Award (2018), Early Career Award (2017), Alan Rosenthal Prize (2017), and Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize (2024). She founded The Empirical Study of Gender Research Network (EGEN) and has held prestigious fellowships at Notre Dame and Tulane.









