Gretchen Bauer
Professor
Political Science & International Relations
University of Delaware
461 Smith Hall
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-6863
Biography
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 politics and African literature, and African women in politics. Her current research focuses on women's political leadership in Africa. Professor Bauer has been a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Public Policy Research in Windhoek, Namibia (spring 2002) and at the University of Botswana in Gaborone, Botswana (spring 2009). During spring 2016 she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Ghana, Legon, in Accra, Ghana.
Books and Book Chapters
• 'My Wife, My Sister, My Mother': Electing More Women to Parliament in Ghana. Kujenga Amani, 12 January 2017.
• Gender and the Judiciary in Africa: From Obscurity to Parity, Gretchen Bauer and Josephine Dawuni, eds. New York and London: Routledge, 2016, 214 pp.
• 'A Lot of Head Wraps': African Contributions to the Third Wave of Electoral Gender Quotas. Politics, Groups and Identities, 2016. 4(2): 196-213.
• “What is wrong with a woman being chief?” Women Chiefs and Symbolic and Substantive Representation in Botswana. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 2016. 51(2): 222-237.
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