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Rebecca Gill is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Dr. Gill earned a Ph.D. in Political Science in 2008. Her dissertation, Why Do High Court Judges Join? Joining Behavior and Australia's Seriatim Tradition, analyzed the effects of institutional tradition on the decisionmaking behavior on Australia's highest court. Prior to joining the UNLV faculty in 2008, she was a visiting professor at Clark University in Worcester, MA.Dr. Gill's recent research focuses on gender and intersectionality, particularly as it involves judges and judicial institutions. She is the recipient of a multi-year National Science Foundation grant to study gender and race bias in judicial performance evaluations in state judiciaries. Dr. Gill's research interests also include state judicial selection and comparative judicial institutions and behavior. She is the co-author of Judicialization of Politics: The Interplay of Institutional Structure, Legal Doctrine, and Politics on the High Court of Australia (Carolina Academic Press, 2012). Her work has also appeared in the Law & Society Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, Catholic University Law Review, Justice System Journal, Politics, Groups, and Identities, and Judicature.Dr. Gill is also involved in research about equity in higher education and beyond. She has worked on University-wide initiatives at UNLV to promote gender and intersectional equity, and she has been outspoken about her own #metoo experiences in academia. She is also working on a collaborative project with government and community partners aimed at promoting the adoption of best practices for gender equity in Nevada's business community.

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