Women's and Gender Studies Alixandra B. Yanus

Alixandra B. Yanus is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at High Point University, where she teaches courses in American Politics generally, and Women and Politics and Judicial Politics, specifically.  She holds a B.A. in Political Science from American University and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Her scholarly research has appeared in peer-reviewed venues including Justice System Journal and Politics and Gender and in book chapters published by Oxford University Press, CQ Press, and Sage. Sheis also co-author of American Government: Roots and Reform, 12^th edition, with Karen O’Connor and Larry J. Sabato.

Dr. Yanus is an enthusiastic supporter of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at High Point University, where she teaches the course “Women and Politics.” She is particularly fond of the program’s “community of engaged faculty and outstanding students,” who, according to her, “are among the best on campus.”