C.V. Summary

  • Penn State University
    Postdoctoral Researcher, incoming Jan 2025
    Joint appointment: Department of Political Science, Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies

  • Rutgers University
    Ph.D., Political Science, certification in Women & Gender Studies, Jan 2025
    M.A., Political Science, 2021

    Memorial University of Newfoundland
    M.A., Political Science, 2019

    Simon Fraser Universty
    B.A., Communications, 2010

  • Irving, Michelle. 2023. “Supreme Court Mominees: The Political Implications of Maternal Rhetoric.” In The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research. Vol. 9. Eds. Robert X. Browning. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press.

    Forthcoming
    Irving, Michelle. “Critical Junctures: Tammy Duckworth.” In Junctures in Women’s Leadership. Eds. Julie Des Jardins. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press.

  • Irving, Michelle. 2019. “Women Politicians Must Still Bend to Gender Stereotypes.” Policy Options — Invited contribution for Policy Options special issue on gender, media and politics published in March 2019.

  • Fellowships

    Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2022 - 2024

    Rutgers University Fellowship, 2022; 2019
    Memorial University School of Graduate Studies Fellowship, 2018 - 2019

    Grants

    Center for C-Span Scholarship and Engagement Research Grant, 2022

    Awards

    The Inaugural Ruth B. Mandel Dissertation Research Awards, 2023

    The Carrie Chapman Catt Center Prize for Research on Women and Politics, 2023

    Box-Steffensmeier Scholarship for ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, 2021

    Barney Power’s Award, 2019

    Mayor Andree P. Boucher Memorial Scholarship, 2018

  • Journal Manuscript Reviewer. Politics & Gender, Politics, Groups & Identities, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Canadian Journal of Political Science

    Guest Editor, Virtual Special Issue “Pathways to Congress” Politics & Gender, 2022

    Graduate Editorial Assistant, Politics & Gender, July 2022 - Sept 2023

  • Women and American Politics (790:335) - Instructor of Record - Summer Session 2024; Summer Session 2023; Fall 2022

    The Presidency (790:306) - Instructor of Record - Summer Session 2022

    Law and Politics (790:106) - Graduate Teaching Assistant - Fall 2020; Spring 2021; Fall 2021; Spring 2022

  • Communications Strategist, The City of Calgary - 2011 - 2017