Jill S. Greenlee

Associate Professor of Politics

Departments/Programs

Politics

Degrees

University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley, M.A.
University of Michigan, B.A.

Expertise

American Politics, Political Behavior, Political Socialization, Public Opinion, Gender and Politics, Racial Attitudes

Profile

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Jill Greenlee is an associate professor in Politics and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University. She received her B.A. in political science from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarship investigates how life cycle events, life stages, and childhood shape the political attitudes and behaviors of individuals. In her first book, The Political Consequences of Motherhood (2014, University of Michigan Press), Greenlee investigates the complex relationship between motherhood and women’s political attitudes. She has continued to investigate the ways in which motherhood shapes women’s political engagement in a series of co-authored articles and book chapters.

Currently, Professor Greenlee is working with colleagues to understand the impact of being the father of a daughter on men’s gender-linked political attitudes and behaviors. Greenlee is also working on a project with several collaborators that investigates the political socialization of children; this work seeks to uncover whether the roots of gender gaps in political ambition, interest, and knowledge can be found in childhood. Finally, Professor Greenlee investigates political socialization questions related to racial attitudes and generational change. She is currently working on a co-authored book manuscript investigating the nature of racial attitudes among white Americans who came of age during the Obama presidency.

Professor Greenlee has published work in journals such as Political Psychology, Politics and Gender, P.S. Political Science and Politics, Politics, Groups and Identities, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Political Behavior. She teaches courses in American Politics, Women and Politics, and Political Behavior.

Courses Taught

POL	50b	Political Science Methods: Research, Design, and Modes of Analysis
POL	89a	Political Science Internship
POL	111a	The American Congress
POL	123a	Seminar: Political Psychology
POL	193a	Seminar: Special Topics in American Politics
POL	215a	Graduate Seminar in American Politics
POL	340d	Proseminar
POL/WGS	125a	Gender in American Politics

Awards and Honors

2018 Elisie Hillman Prize (2018)

Scholarship

Bos, Angela L.., Jill S. Greenlee, Mirya R. Holman, Zoe M. Oxley, and J. Celeste Lay.. ""This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest."." American Political Science Review (2021): 1-18.

Bos, Angela, Mirya R. Holman, J. Celeste Lay, Zoe Oxley, and Jill S. Greenlee. "100 Years of Suffrage and Girls Still Struggle to Find their 'Fit' in Politics." PS: Political Science & Politics Vol. 53. no. 3 (2020): 474-478.

Greenlee, Jill S. and Elizabeth A. Sharrow. "The Politics of Parenthood: Attitudes, Behavior, Policy, and Theory." Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Ed. Sandy Maisel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020

Greenlee, Jill S., Angela L. Bos, Mirya R. Holman, J. Celeste Lay, and Zoe M. Oxley. "“Drawing Madame President: How Children Imagine Hillary Clinton as a Political Leader”." The Hillary Effect: Perspectives on Clinton’s Legacy. Ed. Ivy Cargile, Denise Davis, Jennifer Merolla and Rachel VanSickle-Ward. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Oxley, Zoe M., Mirya R. Holman, Jill S. Greenlee, Angela L. Bos, and J. Celeste Lay. "Children's Views of the American Presidency." Public Opinion Quarterly (2020).

Rhodes, Jesse H., Elizabeth A. Sharrow, Jill S. Greenlee, and Tatishe M. Nteta. "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).

Sharrow, Elizabeth A., Jesse H. Rhodes, Tatishe M. Nteta and Jill S. Greenlee. "Fatherhood, First-daughters, and the First Woman Presidential Candidate." The Hillary Effect: Perspectives on Clinton’s Legacy. Ed. Ivy Cargile, Denise Davis, Jennifer Merolla and Rachel VanSickle-Ward. Bloomsbury Publishing., 2020

VanSickle-Ward, Rachel and Jill S. Greenlee. "“How Hillary Clinton Uses Motherhood as a Credential for President.”." The Hillary Effect: Perspectives on Clinton’s Legacy. Ed. Ivy Cargile, Denise Davis, Jennifer Merolla and Rachel VanSickle-Ward. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Costa, Mia, Jill S. Greenlee, Tatishe M. Nteta, Jesse H. Rhodes, Elizabeth A. Sharrow. "Family Ties? The Limits of Fathering Daughters on Congressional Behavior." American Politics Research (2019): 1-23.

Lay, J., Holman, M., Bos, A., Greenlee, J., Oxley, Z., & Buffett, A.. "TIME for Kids to Learn Gender Stereotype: Analysis of Gender and Political Leadership in a Common Social Studies Resource for Children." Politics & Gender (2019): 1-22.

Greenlee, Jill S, Tatishe Nteta, Jesse Rhodes, Elizabeth Sharrow. "Helping to Break the Glass Ceiling? Fathers, First Daughters, and Presidential Vote Choice in 2016." Political Behavior (2018).

Sharrow, Elizabeth, Jesse Rhodes, Tatishe Nteta and Jill S Greenlee. "The First Daughter Effect: The Impact of Fathering Daughters on Men’s Preferences for Gender Equality Policies." Public Opinion Quarterly 83. 3 (2018): 493–523.

Langner, Carrie, Jill S. Greenlee and Grace Deason. "Identity and Activism in the Era of Politicized Motherhood." In Mothers and Others: The Impact of Family Life on Politics. Ed. Melanee Thomas and Amanda Bittner. University of British Columbia Press, 2017

Greenlee, Jill S, Grace Deason, and Carrie Langner. "The Impact of Motherhood and Maternal Messages on Political Candidacies." The Political Psychology of Women in U.S. Politics. Ed. Angela L. Bos and Monica C. Schneider. Routledge, 2016

Deason, Grace, Jill S. Greenlee and Carrie Langner. "Mothers on the campaign trail: implications of Politicized Motherhood for women in politics." Gender and Political Psychology. Ed. Zoe Oxley. Routledge, 2015

Deason, Grace, Jill S. Greenlee, and Carrie Langner. "Mothers on the Campaign Trail: Implications of Politicized Motherhood for Women in Politics." Politics, Groups, and Identities 3. 1 (2015).

Greenlee, Jill S, Mirya Holman & Rachel VanSickle-Ward. "Making it Personal: Assessing the Impact of In-Class Exercises on Closing the Gender Gap in Political Ambition." Journal of Political Science Education 10. (2014): 48-61.

Greenlee, Jill S. The Political Consequences of Motherhood. University of Michigan Press: 2014.

Nteta, Tatishe & Jill S. Greenlee. "A Change Is Gonna Come: Generational Membership and White Racial Attitudes in the 21st Century." Political Psychology Volume 34. Issue 6 (2013): 877–897.

Hannagan, Rebecca J., Monica Schneider, & Jill S. Greenlee. "New Research on Gender and Political Psychology: Data, Methods, and Theoretical Implications." PS: Political Science and Politics 45. 2 (2012): 232-237.

Greenlee, Jill S. "Soccer Moms, Hockey Moms and the Question of "Transformative" Motherhood." Politics & Gender 6. 3 (2010): 405-431.