Professor

Contact Information

218 Murray Hall
  405-744-8437
  rebekah.herrick@okstate.edu 

Office Hours (Fall 2019)

1-4 Th

Rebekah Herrick is a professor of political science at Oklahoma State University. Her primary research interests concern issues of representation particularly as they relate gender and legislatures.  Other areas of interest concern congressional careers and political ambition.  She has published three books and her work has appeared in The Journal of Politics, Social Science Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, American Political Research, and State Politics and Policy Quarterly as well as several other more specialized journals such as Women and Politics and The Journal of Homosexuality.  She recently published a textbook on the representation of minorities in the US.  Her research has recently been featured on the London School of Economics US Centre blog.

Research Interests

American Politics, Congress and Legislatures, Gender

Recent Publications

• • Rebekah Herrick, Sue Thomas, Lori Franklin, Marcia L. Godwin, Eveline Gnabasik and Jean Reith Schroedel. Forthcoming. Physical violence and psychological abuse against female and male mayors in the United States. Politics, Groups, and Identities.
    
  • Sue Thomas, Rebekah Herrick, Lori D. Franklin, Marcia L. Godwin, Eveline Gnabasik, & Jean R. Schroedel. 2019. Not for the Faint of Heart: Assessing Physical Violence and Psychological Abuse against U.S. Mayors. State and Local Government Review 51(1): 57–67.
    
  • Ben Pryor, Rebekah Herrick, and James A. Davis. 2019. Voter ID Laws: The Disenfranchisement of Minority Voters? Political Science Quarterly 134(1): 63-83.
    
  • Rebekah Herrick. 2017. Minority Representation in American Politics. CQ/Sage. 
  • Rebekah Herrick, Jeannette Morehouse Mendez, and Ben Pryor. 2015. The Razor's Edge: The Politics of Facial Hair. Social Science Quarterly 95(5): 1301-1313.