About the author

J. Kevin Corder is a professor of political science at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. His research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics, and other outlets in political science and public administration. Much of his work focuses on economic policy, including two books on the Federal Reserve System. In 2013, Dr. Corder received a Fulbright–Schuman European Affairs program grant to study the regulation of banks in Malta and the United Kingdom. He shared a National Science Foundation grant and the Carrie Chapman Catt prize with Christina Wolbrecht, University of Notre Dame. They are the authors of Counting Women’s Ballots: Female Voters from Suffrage through the New Deal and A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections since Suffrage (both Cambridge University Press). Both books were recognized with the American Political Science Association Victoria Schuck prize for the best book on women and politics in the calendar year.