Dr. Lori Hausegger joined the faculty of the Department of Political Science at Boise State University in 2005. Her B.A. and M.A. are both in Political Science from the University of Calgary, and she earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from The Ohio State University where her dissertation project explored the impact of interest groups on women's rights policies of the U.S. and Canadian supreme courts. Her current research interests include comparative courts, judicial selection, judicial decision-making and court-Congress relations.
Dr. Hausegger serves as Co-Director of the Canadian Studies Program, as Pre-Law Advisor at Boise State, and as a manuscript reviewer for a number of journals, including American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Canadian Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics.