Catherine Reyes-Housholder

PhD Cornell University

Chile's first female president, Michelle Bachelet, leads her final 2013 presidential campaign event.

Brazil's first female president, Dilma Rousseff, inaugurates a Casa da Mulher Brasileira in Brasília in June 2015.

Welcome to my web site! I am a Postdoctoral Researcher sponsored by Chile's National Science Foundation (Fondecyt), an Associate Researcher at ICSO Universidad Diego Portales, and an Adjunct Researcher at the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES).

​I research the presidency and gender with a regional focus on Latin America, and I use historical, statistical and experimental methods. My work has been published in ​Political Research Quarterly, Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics and Society, Politics, Groups and Identities and the ​Journal of Politics in Latin America as well as in four edited volumes. My dissertation "Presidentas, Power and Pro-Women Change" won the 2017 Best Dissertation Award: APSA Women and Politics section. 

I summarize parts of my research agenda in an essay for the Comparative Politics Spring 2017 newsletter http://comparativenewsletter.com/.
I describe some of my recent and ongoing research in this Spanish-language interview: http://www.icso.cl/noticias/catherine-reyes-housholder-describe-su-proyecto-de-investigacion-sobre-presidencia-y-genero-en-america-latina/. 

I completed fieldwork in Brazil and Chile in 2015 thanks to a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. I also conducted research in Uruguay as a Fulbright undergraduate fellow in 2008.

To learn more about female presidents in Latin America, check out this recent interview in Página 12:
https://www.pagina12.com.ar/124006-al-llegar-una-mujer-a-la-presidencia-puede-cambiar-el-sentid​

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