Project Title: Gender in the Journals Revisited: A Comprehensive Look at Trends Across Five Decades
Christina Gahn, University of Vienna
Christina Gahn is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Government at the University of Vienna (Austria). She earned her doctorate in political science from the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany) in 2025. Her research focuses on political parties, electoral campaigns, and public opinion polls, with her work published in journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, Party Politics, and the International Journal of Press/Politics. She is also an active advocate for gender equality in academia, serving as one of the co-organizers of her department’s women’s group, where she works to support female scholars and address structural issues in the field. Building on this interest, Christina’s current research examines systemic hurdles to gender equity in political science publishing, analyzing authorship trends over five decades.
Michael Imre, University of Vienna
Michael Imre is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Government at the University of Vienna (Austria). He completed his doctorate in political science from the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim (Germany) in 2025. His research interests include political parties and party competition, intra-party politics, coalition governments, and constitutional politics. His work has been published in journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, and Party Politics.
About the APSA Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars
The APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grants are open to all to provide research support that examines political science phenomena affecting underserved communities and underrepresented groups. In July 2025, APSA awarded 11 projects for the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant for Early Career Scholars for a combined total award amount of $22,000.