Dr. Dawn Teele is the SNF Agora Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University.

Professor Teele is a leader in the field of gender and politics. She is the author of an award-winning book, Forging the Franchise: The Political Origins of the Women’s Vote (Princeton University Press, 2018), a co-authored volume Good Reasons to Run: Women and Political Candidacy (Temple University Press, 2020), and more than a dozen peer-reviewed or scholarly articles on gender and political life. She is also the editor of Field Experiments and Their Critics: Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experiments in the Social Sciences (Yale University Press, 2014).

Teele has received numerous commendations, including the Theda Skocpol Emerging Scholar Award for the top scholar who is within 10 years of their Ph.D. from the American Political Science Association’s Comparative Politics section in 2023, the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics, and the Gregory Luebbert prize for the best book in comparative politics from the American Political Science Association. Her scholarship has been highlighted in Inside Higher Ed, Foreign Affairs, Boston Review, The Washington Post, and National Public Radio.

Teele has received research support from the National Science Foundation, the Research Council of Norway, the Sloane Foundation, the World Bank, and Time Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences.

Teele is a lead editor of Comparative Political Studies. She co-founded and directs EGEN, the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network. And she serves as associate editor for the Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics.