Assistant Professor of Politics and Women's and Gender Studies (Sabbatical-Easter Semester 2020)
B.A. University of Florida M.A. Florida Atlantic University Graduate Certificate in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Emory University PhD, Emory University

Dr. Paige Schneider has a joint appointment with the departments of women’s and gender studies, and politics. She teaches courses in the fields of gender and politics, political sociology, and LGBTQ Studies. Professor Schneider earned her PhD in political science, and a graduate teaching certificate in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies from Emory University. She has served as a consultant to non-governmental organizations in Bolivia and Liberia on issues related to gender and political representation, and gender and violence.

Schneider’s current research examines the relationship between gender and election violence, and women’s political leadership and advancement in transitional democracies including Uganda and Tunisia. A secondary line of research concerns gender and sports. She has published in peer reviewed journals including most recently, Policy Studies (2019), and The Journal of Gender Studies (2020). She has contributed to edited volumes including "Gender and Election Violence in Uganda," in Gender and Violence against Political Actors, (Eds. Elin Bjarnegård and Pär Zetterberg, Temple University Press, 2023). The work draws from her fieldwork in Uganda and examines violence against female political candidates in local council elections. Forthcoming, is a book chapter entitled, "Increasing visibility and the (re)presentation of female boxers in print media," in the volume Boxing, Narrative, and Culture: Critical Perspectives, (Eds. Sarah Crews and Solomon Lennox, Routledge, in press).

Schneider is a founding member of the College’s original community engaged learning program, and was the faculty coordinator along with Andrew Moser and Nicky Hamilton, of the intergroup dialogue (IGD) curriculum initiative on race and class. She served as the Posse Scholar faculty mentor for the C’17 cohort.

Her CV can be found here.