Ana Catalano Weeks
1 West North 4.02
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY
Welcome! I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Comparative Politics at the University of Bath. My research focuses on gender, political representation, and political parties, particularly in Western Europe.
In 2026, I was awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship for Invisible Burdens, Visible Gaps: The Mental Load and Gendered Citizenship. The project explores how the often-invisible work of planning and managing everyday life shapes gender inequalities in political participation and public life. Other projects I am excited to be working on explore women and gender in populist radical right parties, the rise of femonationalism, and gender affinity in politics.
My book, Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. My research has appeared in journals including American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, The Journal of Politics, and Journal of Marriage and Family.
I am an Editor at Legislative Studies Quarterly and Lead Co-Editor of Cambridge Studies in Gender & Politics, with Rachel E. Brulé. Please get in touch if you are interested in submitting a book manuscript.
I have been honored to receive several awards for my research, including the 2024 CES Carolina de Miguel Moyer Young Scholar Award, the 2023 APSA Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section Best Paper Award for The Political Consequences of the Mental Load, and the 2018 APSA Franklin L. Burdette / Pi Sigma Alpha Award for my research on why gender quota laws are adopted by men.
Before joining Bath, I was a College Fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University and a Research Fellow in the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. I have a PhD in Political Science from Harvard University, an MSc in Comparative Politics (Europe) from the LSE, and an AB in Government from Dartmouth College.
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