Elizabeth A. Sharrow

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  • Associate Professor of Public Policy and History, UMass Amherst

Elizabeth Sharrow (Ph.D & M.P.P.) is Professor of Public Policy and History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Policy, and Director of Faculty Research at the UMass Institute for Social Science Research. Their research explores the politics of Title IX and the ways that public policy shapes understandings of sex and gender at the intersections of race, sexuality, ability, and class. Sharrow's first book with James Druckman, Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports (Cambridge University Press, 2023), was awarded the 2024 Gladys Kammerer Award for the best book on US national policy from the American Political Science Association, and the 2024 Outstanding Book Award from the Society of Professors of Education in the American Educational Research Association. She has published research on the politics of fatherhood, and the politics of college sport in the United States. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the American Association of University Women, among other sources. They currently serve as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.

Experience

  • 2025–present
    Professor of Public Policy and History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • 2023–present
    Director of Faculty Research, UMass Institute of Social Science Research
  • 2020–2025
    Associate Professor of Public Policy and History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • 2013–2020
    Assistant Professor of Political Science and History, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Education

  • 2013 
    University of Minnesota, Ph.D., Political Science
  • 2009 
    University of Minnesota, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, M.P.P.

Publications

  • 2024
    . Play to Lead: The Generational Impact of Sports on Women’s Leadership, Women's Sports Foundation research report
  • 2023
    Public Policy as Trans Harm: Troubling Administrative Governance through Transfeminist Sports Studies, Transgender Studies Quarterly
  • 2023
    Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports, Cambridge University Press
  • 2021
    Sports, Transgender Rights, and the Bodily Politics of Cisgender Supremacy, Laws
  • 2020
    Just Locker Room Talk? Explicit Sexism and the Impact of the Access Hollywood Tape on Electoral Support for Donald Trump in 2016, Political Communication
  • 2020
    Public Opinion, Crisis, and Vulnerable Populations: The Case of Title IX and COVID-19, Politics & Gender
  • 2020
    Public Opinion, Crisis, and Vulnerable Populations: The Case of Title IX and COVID-19, Politics & Gender
  • 2019
    Sex Segregation as Policy Problem: A Gendered Policy Paradox, Politics, Groups, and Identities
  • 2018
    Gender Policy Feedback: Perceptions of Sex Equity, Title IX, and Political Mobilization Among College Athletes, Political Research Quarterly
  • 2018
    The First-Daughter Effect: The Impact of Fathering Daughters on Men’s Preferences for Gender Equality Issues, Public Opinion Quarterly
  • 2017
    ’Female Athlete’ Politic: Title IX and the Naturalization of Sex Difference in Public Policy, Politics, Groups, and Identities

Grants and Contracts

  • 2019
    ADVANCE Partnership: #MeTooPoliSci Leveraging A Professional Association to Address Sexual Harassment in Political Science
    Role:
    Co-P.I.
    Funding Source:
    National Science Foundation

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