Sara Chatfield

Assistant Professor

Faculty

sara.chatfield@du.edu

303-871-2136 (Office)

https://du.digication.com/sara-chatfield/home

Personal

Sturm Hall, 2000 East Asbury Avenue Denver, CO 80208

What I do

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Specialization(s)

American Politics, American political development, gender and politics, public law, political behavior

Professional Biography

Sara Chatfield is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Denver. Her research focuses on American political development, women in politics, and political behavior. Her book, In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women's Rights Before Suffrage, examines the politics of married women's economic rights reform in the 1800s and early 1900s. Dr. Chatfield teaches classes on American politics and law, including Constitutional Law I, Judicial Politics, and a freshman seminar on the politics of bathrooms.

Degree(s)

Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2014
MA, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2007
BA, Politics, Oberlin College, 2006

Professional Affiliations

American Political Science Association

Research

Dr. Chatfield's research focuses on the development of married women’s economic rights in U.S. state courts, legislatures, and constitutional conventions in the 1800s and early 1900s. She is currently working on a new project on the politics of bathroom access in the United States. She also conducts research on political behavior (including various aspects of political participation and vote choice) and American political development (including congressional politics and analysis of historical polling data).

Areas of Research

American politics

American political development

gender and politics

public law

political behavior

Featured Publications

Chatfield, Sara. In her own name: The politics of women's rights before suffrage. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.

Caughey, Devin et al. Target estimation and adjustment weighting for survey nonresponse and sampling bias. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108879217.

Brooks, John, and Sara Chatfield. “Mind the gap: Examining the role of gender in campaign staffing and compensation.” Electoral Studies 67 (2020): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2020.102208.

Chatfield, Sara. “Married Women's Economic Rights Reform in State Legislatures and Courts, 1839-1920.” Studies in American Political Development 32.2 (2018): 236–256. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0898588X18000147.

Henderson, John, and Sara Chatfield. “Who Matches? Propensity Scores and Bias in the Causal Effects of Education on Participation.” Journal of Politics 73.3 (2011): 646-658.