Rachel Brulé

Rachel Brulé is the 2024-2025 SAGE Sara Miller McCune Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She is also an Associate Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. She is Graduate Faculty with BU’s Department of Political Science, Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative at the Global Development Policy Center and affiliated faculty with the Institute for Economic Development.

Brulé’s first book,Women, Power, and Property: The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India, won the American Political Science Association’s 2021 Luebbert Prize for the Best Book in Comparative Politics. It is published with Cambridge University Press, in the Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics Series. She has published articles in the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Development Economics, and the Annual Review of Political Science, among others, and has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Ideas for India, India Development Review, Ms. Magazine, and The New Books Network, among other sites. Her research has also been awarded the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA)’s Pi Sigma Alpha Award for Best Paper and Kellogg/Notre Dame Award for Best Paper.

Professor Brulé received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (2024-2029) for the project “Dynamics of Women’s Political & Economic Empowerment: An Open Database Project.” She is delighted to be Lead Co-Editor of the Cambridge University Press book series, Cambridge Studies in Gender & Politics, with Ana Catalano Weeks, with an Editorial Team that also includes Tiffany Barnes, Diana O’Brien, Solédad Prillaman, Dawn Teele, and Jakana Thomas.