Hannah E. Britton Political Science and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Tel: 785-864-9016 University of Kansas Email: britton@ku.edu 1541 Lilac Lane, Blake Hall Room 504 Fax: 785-864-5700 Lawrence, Kansas 66044-4177 EDUCATION Ph.D. 1999, Political Science. 1999. Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. M.A. 1995, Political Science. Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. B.A. 1992, Politics and English, Wake Forest University. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2009-present Director, Center for International Political Analysis, Institute for Policy & Social Research,

University of Kansas 2007-present Associate Professor of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies and Political Science,

University of Kansas. 2005-2007 Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Political Science, University of Kansas. 2001-2005 Assistant Professor of Political Science, Mississippi State University. 1999-2001 Assistant Professor of Political Science, Winthrop University. BOOKS Women's Activism in South Africa: Working Across Divides, co-edited with Sheila Meintjes of the University of

Witwatersrand and Jennifer N. Fish of Old Dominion University. Published by University of KwaZulu Natal Press. 2009.

Women in African Parliaments, co-edited with Gretchen Bauer of the University of Delaware, Lynne Rienner Publishers, January 2006. Women in the South African Parliament: From Resistance to Governance. University of Illinois Press, August 2005. REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES “'I Need to Hurt You More': Namibia's Fight to End Gender-Based Violence." Co-authored with Lindsey Shook.

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Forthcoming, Autumn, 2014. “Organizing Against Gender Violence in South Africa.” 2006. Journal of South African Studies, Vol. 32, No 1, pp. 145-163. “Coalition Building, Election Rules, and Party Politics: South African Women’s Path to Parliament,” 2002.

Africa Today,Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 32-67. “The Incomplete Revolution: South African Women’s Continued Search for Liberation.” 2002. International Feminist

Journal of Politics, Vol. 4 No. 1, pp. 1-29. “New Struggles, New Strategies: Emerging Patterns of Women’s Political Participation in the South African

Parliament.” 2001. International Politics, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 173-199.

BOOK CHAPTERS “’If Good Food is Cooked in One Country, We Will All Eat from It’: Women and Civil Society in Africa.” Co-authored with Taylor Price. In The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa. Ed. By Ebenezer Obadare. Pp. 293-310. New York: Springer. 2013. "Engendering Civil Society in the Democratic South Africa." Co-authored with Jennifer Fish. In Women's

Activism in South Africa: Working Across Divides. Edited by Hannah E. Britton, Shelia Meintjes, and Jennifer N. Fish, Pp. 1-43. University of KwaZulu Natal Press. 2009.

"South Africa: Challenging Traditional Thinking on Electoral Systems." In Women and Legislative Representation: Electoral Systems, Political Parties and Sex Quotas. Edited by Manon Tremblay. Pp 111-112. Palgrave. 2008. “Trading Places: Juxtaposing South Africa and the United States.” In Interrogating Imperialism: Conversations on Gender, Race, and War. Co-edited by Robin Riley and Naeem Inayatullah. Pp. 155-182. Palgrave. 2006. “Women in African Parliaments: A Continental Shift?” Co-authored with Gretchen Bauer. In Women in African

Parliaments. Ed. by Gretchen Bauer and Hannah E. Britton. . Pp. 1-30. Lynne Rienner Publishers. 2006. “South Africa: Mainstreaming Gender in a New Democracy.” In Women in African Parliaments. Ed. by Gretchen Bauer and Hannah E. Britton. Pp. 59-84. Lynne Rienner Publishers. 2006. GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND RESEARCH AWARDS Kansas Anti-Human Trafficking and Slavery Initiative: KASHTI, University of Kansas, Level II Strategic Initiative Grant (SIG). $39,809, with Co-Is Dorothy Daley, Akiko Takeyama, Emily Rauscher, Mariya Omelicheva, and Shannon O’Lear. 2013-2014. Fulbright Faculty Research Scholar to South Africa, 2011-2012. $34,832. Research Fellow, Idasa, an African Democracy Institute, Pretoria, South Africa, 2011. Research Fellow, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2011. General Research Fund, Kansas University Center for Research 2011. U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, “U.S. Institute on Women's Leadership.” 2010. Grant award: $240,000. Renewed for 2011: $240,000. Global Health Seminar Participant, Office of International Programs, University of Kansas. 2009-2010. Awarded Jointly with Dorothy Daley, University of Kansas, for project research on “Global Health and Governance: Examining the Intersection between HIV/Aids and Governance.” New Faculty General Research Fund, 2007, Office of the Vice Provost for Research, University of Kansas. Participant, Hall Center Grant Writing Workshop, University of Kansas. Spring 2006. Research Initiation Grant, 2003, Office of the Vice President of Research, Mississippi State University. Research Travel Award Grant, 2003, Office of the Vice President for Research, Mississippi State University. Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 1996, U.S. Department of Education. Roscoe Martin Fund Dissertation Award, 1996, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, 1995, Ohio State University, funded attendance to the Cooperative African Languages Summer Institute held at the University of California at Berkeley. TEACHING AWARDS Kemper Fellow, University of Kansas. 2008. Teaching Achievement Recognition. Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Kansas, in recognition of teaching in the Political Science Department. 2008. Ned N. Fleming Trust Award for Distinguished Teaching, Scholarship, and Service, 2007, University of Kansas. Honors Faculty Fellow, 2006-2009, University Honors Program, University of Kansas Faculty Fellowship, 2006-2007, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Kansas. Internationalizing the Curriculum Grant, 2006-7, Office of International Programs, University of Kansas. Teaching Achievement Recognition, 2006, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Kansas, in recognition of teaching in the Women's Studies Program. University Honors Professor of the Year, 2003, University Honors Program, Mississippi State University. Political Science Professor of the Year, 2003, Department of Political Science, Mississippi State University.