Dr. Gretchen Bauer
Professor and Chair
Political Science and International Relations
344 Smith Hall
Phone: (302) 831-2355
gbauer@udel.edu
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Gretchen Bauer, PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994) joined the Department in 1994. She specializes in African Politics and Women and Politics. She teaches classes in African Politics, African Women in Politics, Southern African Politics, and Third World Women in Politics. She is currently working on a co-edited book on women in executives around the world and articles on women's underrepresentation in politics in Botswana. Professor Bauer serves as Chair of the Department.
Recent Publications:
'"50/50 by 2020": Electoral Gender Quotas for Parliament in East and Southern Africa.' International Feminist Journal of Politics. 2008. 10(3): 347-367.
'Uganda: Reserved Seats for Women MPs: Affirmative Action for the National Women's Movement or the National Resistance Movement?' In Manon Tremblay, ed. Women and Legislative Representation: Electoral Systems, Political Parties, and Sex Quotas. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008: 27-39.
'"Nothing to Lose but Their Subordination to the State"? Trade Unions in Namibia Fifteen Years after Independence.' In Jon Kraus, ed. Trade Unions and the Coming of Democracy in Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007: 229-254.
Women in African Parliaments. Edited with Hannah E. Britton. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006.
