Scholarly Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“Substantive or Procedural Autonomy: Willing Slaves and Deferential Housewives.” Ethics, Politics, & Society, 6 #1 (2023).
“A Theoretical Framework for the Study of Political Civility in Municipal Government” with Brian Patterson, Benedictine University and Phillip Hardy Benedictine University. Illinois Municipal Policy Review, 7 #1 (Winter 2022), pp. 113-128.
“Beyond DNA” with Janice Tuck Lively of Elmhurst University in Mothering, Community and Friendship, Dannabang Kuwabong, Dorsia Smith Silva, and Essah Diaz, editors. Bradford, Ontario: Demeter Press, 2022.
“Political Philosophy; Not Just Another Subfield” in Introduction to Politics, Teri Walker, editor. San Diego, CA: Cognella Publishing, 2022. Read at Link
“Pesticides” with Phillip Hardy of Benedictine University in Today’s Environmental Issues: Democrats and Republicans, Teri Walker, editor. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2018.
“Slamming and Marching to Engaged Learning” with Janice Tuck Lively, Associate Professor, Elmhurst College and Rosa Rizzato, Educational Consultant, ECRA Group. Atrium: A Journal of Academic Voices, Fall 2017.
“So Many Open Doors? An Examination of Gender Stereotypes in State Judicial Campaign Advertisements” with Phillip Hardy of Benedictine University, Brian Patterson of Benedictine University and Teri Walker of Elmhurst College. The Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, 37 #4 (August 2016), pp. 417-438.
“Feminism, Adaptive Preferences and Social Contract Theory.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 30 #4 (November 2015), pp. 829-845.
“Embracing Intellectual Humility” with Laurette Liesen, Lewis University. Politics and the Life Sciences, 32 #1 (Spring 2013), pp. 99-101.
“Private and Public Dilemmas: Rawls on the Family.” Polity, 44 #3 (July 2012), pp. 426-445.
“A Collaborative Venture: Integrating Information Literacy into an American Federal Government Course” with Peg Cook, Elmhurst College. Communications and Information Literacy, 6 #1 (Summer 2012), pp. 59-72.
“The Competing Meanings of Biopolitics in Political Science: Biological and Post-Modern Approaches to Politics” with Laurette Liesen, Lewis University. Politics and the Life Sciences, 31 #1&2 (Spring/Fall 2012), pp. 2-16.
“Who Is Barack Hussein Obama? An Experimental Examination of the Effects of Chain Emails and Fear Appeals on Citizen Attitudes in the 2008 Presidential Campaigns” with Phillip Hardy, Benedictine University and Brian Patterson, Benedictine University. The Illinois Political Science Review, 14 (Fall 2011), pp. 5-35.
“Politics & Information Literacy: A Problem-Based Learning Approach” with Peg Cook,Elmhurst College. In Brad Sietz, ed., Bridging and Beyond: Developing Librarian Infrastructure, LOEX Conference Proceedings, 2010.
“Locke and Feminism on Private and Public Realms of Activities.” The Review of Politics, 57 #2 (Spring, 1995), pp. 251-277. Reprinted in Political Theory, Classic and Contemporary Readings, Joseph Losco and Leonard Williams, editors. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Book Reviews
On Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities: Rewriting the Sexual Contract, by Petra Bueskens in Hypatia, A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 38 #2 (Spring 2023).
On The Republic of the Living by Miguel Vatter in Perspectives on Politics, 13 #4 (December 2015), pp. 26-27.