Elizabeth Baisley
Assistant Professor
PhD, MA (Princeton University); MA (黑料吃瓜资源); Honours BA (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Canadian Politics, Gender and Politics
Political Studies
Queen's University
Biography
Dr. Elizabeth Baisley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University and a Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity. Their research and teaching focus on LGBTQ2S+ politics, gender and politics, and Canadian politics, often in dialogue with American and comparative work.
Baisley's current research examines LGBTQ2S+ rights, political representation, and political behaviour in Canada. Their work investigates why support for LGBTQ2S+ rights is declining in Canada, among whom, and how it might be strengthened. Another strand of research examines the barriers and opportunities facing LGBTQ2S+ people seeking elected office. A third strand explores how LGBTQ2S+ voters respond to LGBTQ2S+ candidates and representation. Beyond LGBTQ2S+ politics, Baisley is also conducting research on gender and diversity within the discipline of political science, especially the development of gender and politics as a subfield.
Baisley is methodologically pluralist, drawing on a wide range of quantitative and qualitative materials, including public opinion surveys, experiments, legislative data, interviews, archival research, participant observation, and original dataset creation.
Their work has been published in outlets including The Journal of Politics; Politics & Gender; Electoral Studies; Politics, Groups, and Identities; the Canadian Journal of Political Science; and Human Rights Quarterly.
Before joining Queen's University, Baisley earned a PhD in Politics and a Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies from Princeton University. They subsequently held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Toronto.
Supervisory Interests
For additional information about current research projects and supervision opportunities, please visit Baisley's personal website: .
Selected Publications
Arnel, Kevin, Elizabeth Baisley, and Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant. Forthcoming. 鈥淪egregated Power: Women鈥檚 Underrepresentation and Committee Assignments in the Canadian Parliament.鈥 Canadian Journal of Political Science.
Baisley, Elizabeth and Quinn M. Albaugh. Forthcoming. 鈥淕ender Cues, Attributions and Stereotyping of Transgender and Nonbinary Politicians,鈥 Journal of Politics.
Baisley, Elizabeth and Quinn M. Albaugh. 2026. 鈥淎 New Dataset Identifying LGBTQ2S+ Candidates in Canadian Federal Elections,鈥 Canadian Journal of Political Science, 59(2): 401-407.
Albaugh, Quinn M., Elizabeth Baisley, and Kate Burke Pellizzari. 2026. 鈥淎re LGBTQ+ Candidates Disadvantaged in Financing Their Campaigns? Evidence from Canadian Federal Elections, 2015-2021,鈥 Politics & Gender, 22(1): 54-79.
Baisley, Elizabeth and Quinn M. Albaugh. 2026. 鈥淚dentifying LGBTQ2S+ Candidates: Comparing Three Approaches,鈥 Politics, Groups, and Identities, 14(3): 711-720.
Baisley, Elizabeth and Quinn M. Albaugh. 2025. 鈥淲rong Place or Wrong Party? LGBTQ2S+ Candidates and District Competitiveness,鈥 Electoral Studies, 96: 102953.
Baisley, Elizabeth. 2024. 鈥淚nstitutional Opportunities and Party Position Change: The Case of LGBTQ+ Rights in Canada.鈥 Politics, Groups, and Identities 12(4): 826鈥852.
Albaugh, Quinn M. and Elizabeth Baisley. 2023. 鈥淕ender and LGBT: The Case of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne.鈥 Politics & Gender 19(4): 1156鈥1179. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X23000302