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Dara Z. Strolovitch (Ph.D. Yale University, 2002) is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Her research and teaching focus on interest groups and social movements, political representation, the causes and consequences of American political inequalities, and the intersecting politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Professor Strolovitch is the author of Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2007), which won the American Political Science Association's Gladys M. Kammerer Award, the Political Organizations and Parties section's Leon Epstein Award, the American Sociological Association's Race, Gender, and Class section's Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, and the Association for Research on Nonprofits and Voluntary Action's Virginia Hodgkinson Prize. She is also Associate Editor (with Burdett Loomis and Peter Francia) of the CQ Guide to Interest Groups and Lobbying. Her work also appears in several edited volumes, as well as in journals including Perspectives on Politics, the American Journal of Sociology, American Behavioral Scientist, the Du Bois Review, the Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality, the National Women's Studies Association Journal, Politics & Gender, Social Science Quarterly, and the Journal of Politics. Her current book project, When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People, explores battles over the political construction of crises, focusing on the ways in which seemingly episodic shocks intersect with structural inequalities to shape the constructions of, political opportunities available to, and policy changes affecting marginalized groups. She is also collaborating on several projects, including research that examines to whom voters look for representation and an NSF-funded study of delegates and protesters at the 2008 national party conventions.