{"id":510,"date":"2009-04-06T10:42:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T14:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/?page_id=510"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:36:03","slug":"haussman-melissa","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/people\/haussman-melissa\/","title":{"rendered":"Haussman, Melissa"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"professor\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Melissa Haussman is a Professor of Political Science at Carleton University, having moved from her native Boston and joining the Department in 2005. In both the US and Canada, she has been active in women\u2019s campaigns for national office, often including her students in these participatory efforts. She brought The Washington Centre for Internships agreement with her when she came, a framework which sends students from all majors to The Washington Centre for a semester or summer term. She has been on the editorial board of several gender and politics journals and has published six books at the present time. She is interested in supervising students whose interests like in the intersection of political institutions, marginalized populations and policy outputs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"selected-publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-authored textbook with Professors Stephen Brooks and Donald Abelson, 3rd edition, <em>Understanding American Politics<\/em>, third edition, University of Toronto Press, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walking the Gendered Tightrope: Nancy Pelosi and Theresa May as Legislative Leaders (co-authored with Professor Karen Kedrowski), 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-authored Chapter with Professor Lori Turnbull on party polarization, new issue challenges and changed legislative structures in Chris Sands and David Thomas, ed., <em>Differences that Count,<\/em> Fifth edition, University of Toronto Press, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter, \u201cTrump\u2019s \u2018principles of economic mobility\u2019 and Medicaid: Gender, race and federalism,\u201d in Jill Vickers, Joan Grace and Cheryl Collier, eds., <em>Handbook on Gender, Diversity and Federalism<\/em> (Edward Elgar, 2020), pp. 135-148.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author, \u201cOld Federalism and New Social Risks: Reproductive Health in Canada and the US,\u201d in <em>Thinking Outside the Box<\/em>, edited by Keith Banting, Richard Chaykowski, and Steven Lehrer, McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, November 2015, pp. 161-188. 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