Professional Experience
Jan E. Leighley, professor of political science, has a wide range of teaching and research interests in the field of political behavior. Her research focuses on political participation, social context, and democracy, with a special interest in how social and political processes structure individuals' participation in politics and the consequences of such processes for democratic representation. Her most recent publication on race and political behavior is "Strength in Numbers? The Political Mobilization of Racial and Ethnic Minorities," published by Princeton University Press in 2001.
Professor Leighley has published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics and American Politics Research, among others, and served as editor (with Kim Quaile Hill) of the American Journal of Political Science from 2001-2005.