Education

B.A., Wellesley College;
M.A., Harvard University;
M.A., Boston College;
Ph.D., Harvard University (GSAS)

Specializations:

• Contemporary United States politics and government
• Women and United States politics
• Environmental policy
• Bureaucracy
• Congress

Professor Borrelli teaches U.S. Government and Politics (GOV 111); Women and U.S. Politics (GOV 250); Politics of Bureaucracy (GOV 284), Culture, Politics and the Environment (493A).

Professor Borrelli was Director of the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy from 2003-2004.

Among her books are The President's Cabinet: Gender, Power and Representation (2002) and The Other Elites: Women, Politics and Power in the Executive Branch, co-edited with Janet M. Martin, 1997. A chapter from this latter volume was subsequently reprinted in Gendering American Politics, Perspectives from the Literature, ed. O'Connor, Brewer, Fisher. (Longman, 2006).

Her publications include articles in such journals as Sex Roles, Women and Politics, and Presidential Studies Quarterly, and she has participated as a professional consultant in the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia (2006). Most recent among the numerous fellowships and grants she has received include participation in the Chautauqua Program, University of Alaska - Anchorage, through the National Science Foundation (2006, 2007) and travel grants from the Herbert Hoover Foundation (2005-06) and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation (2004).

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