Sallyjkenney

I am a faculty member in the Political Science Department, and an affiliated faculty member in the law school and Africana Studies at Tulane University. I served as the director of the Newcomb Institute and held the Newcomb endowed chair from 2010-2022. My research interests include sexual assault on campus, women’s imprisonment, women and leadership, gender and judging, judicial selection, feminist social movements, women and electoral politics, the European Court of Justice, exclusionary employment policies, and pregnancy discrimination. My latest book is Gender and Justice: Why Women in the Judiciary Really Matter.

A native of Iowa, I earned a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Iowa, a B.A. and M.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Magdalen College, Oxford, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University.  From 1989-1995, I held a joint appointment in Political Science, Women's Studies, and Law at the University of Iowa. I served on the faculty at the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs from 1995-2009 where I also directed the Center on Women and Public Policy.

I am concerned about the low representation of women among wikipedia editors and the low representation of women judges among its pages and entries. I also hope to bring my scholarly expertise to bear to enrich entries on women's issues, particularly sexual violence and feminist legal theory.

I participated in my first wikithon in 2013 at the behest of the Newcomb archivist, Chloe Raub. Now that I am on sabbatical, I want to learn how to edit pages more proficiently. I want to be a good citizen of the Wikipedia community, so if anyone has suggestions for improvement in my contributions please let me know. I would welcome contact with editors in the Fort Lauderdale area where I now live.

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I am an employee of Tulane University. I aim to strictly abide by Wikipedia's accepted practices on conflicts of interest, neutrality, and notability. I will always strive to work in the best interest of Wikipedia. If other editors identify any problems in my editing activities please do not hesitate to contact me through my user talk page.