Lee Ann Banaszak is a Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Her primary research interests are in comparative political behavior, social movements, voting rights, and women and politics. Her work has been published in Social Forces, Electoral Studies, Public Opinion Quarterly, and American Political Science Review; her books include Why Movements Succeed or Fail (Princeton University Press), The Women’s Movement Inside and Outside the State (Cambridge University Press), Women’s Movements Facing the Reconfigured State, edited with Karen Beckwith and Dieter Rucht (Cambridge University Press), and 100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment, edited with Holly McCammon (Oxford University Press), and the Handbook of Feminist Governance, edited with Marian Sawer, Johana Kantola, and Jacqui True (Edward Elgar Press).
Banaszak holds a PhD from Washington University (1989) and taught at Iowa State before coming to Penn State in 1994. She has served the State of Pennsylvania on the Pennsylvania Redistricting Reform Commission (2018) and the Pennsylvania Redistricting Advisory Council (2021). She has twice served as a Fulbright Scholar and was a German Chancellor Fellow from 1991 to 1992.
