Pat Dunham, Ph.D.

Chair and Associate Professor
Political Science Department

Office: 503A College Hall
412.396.6486
dunham@duq.edu

Education

B.A., Political Science and Journalism, 1975, Ball State University
M.A., Political Science, 1976, Ball State University
Ph.D., Political Science, 1983, Miami University (Ohio)

Research, Publications and Service

In 1990, Dr. Dunham published a book entitled Electoral Behavior in the United States (Prentice Hall). She has presented papers on Congressional voting behavior and the Presidency.

Dr. Dunham was co-director of the Women's and Gender Studies minor from 1999-2005. In 2004 approval was granted for a graduate certificate in Women's and Gender Studies.

Dr. Dunham was a member of the Executive Council of the Pennsylvania Political Science Association from 1992-1995, and served on a committee of the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association. Dr. Dunham will serve as co-director of the Women's and Gender Studies undergraduate minor.

My role in the Policy Center is to provide students with a course that exposes them to empirical research on topics of political behavior and public policy. The Women and Politics course illustrates how interest groups affect and are affected by pubic policy. My service as a reader on theses guides students in learning how to get from hypothesis formulation to testing hypotheses, to producing results.