Denise M WalshDenise Walsh is Assistant Professor of Politics and Studies in Women and Gender at the University of Virginia. From 2008 to 2009 she was a Fellow at the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. Professor Walsh was the recipent of the Best Dissertation Prize for the Women in Politics Research section of the American Political Science Association in 2007 and was a co-winner of the Journal of Southern African Studies Best Article Prize in 2006. She served as a co-editor of the Journal of Southern African Studies special journal issue on women and gender in Southern Africa and has published articles and a book chapter on gender politics in South Africa. She received her Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research in 2006, where she received the Hannah Arendt Award in Politics. Read More Read Less