Mona Lena Krook is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. Her research analyzes electoral gender quotas in cross-national perspective. Her first book, Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide (Oxford University Press, 2009), received the American Political Science Association’s 2010 Victoria Schuck Award for the Best Book on Women and Politics. In addition to authoring numerous scholarly articles on gender quotas and women’s political representation, she is co-editor with Sarah Childs of Women, Gender, and Politics: A Reader (Oxford University Press, 2010) and with Susan Franceschet and Jennifer M. Piscopo of The Impact of Gender Quotas (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Her current research explores the impact of quotas beyond numbers, focusing on trends in legislative diversity, policy-making behavior, public opinion, and political engagement in Western Europe, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. She has also written reports on non-quota measures to enhance women’s political representation, including public financing, political party initiatives, civil society programs, and parliamentary reforms. She has been a visiting researcher at Harvard University, the University of Bristol, and the University of Stockholm. Her website is http://mlkrook.org