Faculty

Ritter, Gretchen
Professor
Director of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies

Office: MEZ 3.104 (WWH 401, 471-5149)
Phone: 512-232-7252
ritterg@mail.utexas.edu

Education: Professor Ritter received her B.S. in government from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in political science from MIT.

Research interests:
Professor Ritter specializes in studies of American politics, constitutional development, and gender politics from a historical and theoretical perspective. She is currently examining the impact of work-family issues on gender equity in the  United States. Professor Ritter has been a Faculty Fellow at Princeton University, a Liberal Arts Fellow at Harvard Law School, and has received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. She is the Director of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at UT.

Field(s) of Study: American Politics; Public Law

Recent Publications:
She is the author of two books, Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America (NY: Cambridge University Press, 1997) and The Constitution as Social Design: Gender and Civic Membership in the American Constitutional Order (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006). She also has a co-edited book (with Desmond King, Robert Lieberman and Laurence Whitehead), entitled Democratization in America , forthcoming Johns Hopkins University Press. She has published articles, reviews and essays in numerous peer reviewed journals in law, political science, sociology, and gender studies.