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Shauna L. Shames is a Ph.D. Candidate in American Government at Harvard University. Her primary areas of academic interest are race, gender, feminism, and politics, and she has published articles, reports, and book chapters on women as candidates, black women in Congress, comparative child care policy, work/family conflict, abortion, feminism in the U.S. and internationally, gay and lesbian rights, and U.S. public opinion. She has designed and taught courses (both as a Teaching Fellow and as an instructor) on race, class, gender, women's studies, the history of feminism, and the futuristic fiction.  She has presented conference papers on feminist groups' fundraising strategies, the gender consciousness of conservative women, and the role of gender in political science research, and she has lectured widely on gender, race, and politics. Photo credit: Marlon Kuzmick