Rachel Brule

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.

Professor Brulé’s research identifies the conditions under which political, economic, and social systems rebalance gendered power. She is a political scientist who bridges development economics and feminist theory, combining careful causal identification with innovative theory building and extensive field research in South Asia. Gendered power hierarchies define our current political system, from the family to the local, national, and global. Her work points to the need to critically reckon with the dual movements of progress towards and backlash against gender equality. Understanding the complexity of gendered power and the consequences of its disruption are necessary to solve the most intractable contemporary problems, from climate change to economic inequality and conflict.

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.

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Brulé also co-organizes the Alliance for Afghan Women’s Economic Empowerment with the US State Department, which was launched by Secretary Blinken in September, 2022. Her aim in this partnership is to ensure that the transformative power of women’s access to economic and political resources reaches excluded groups globally.

Professor Brulé 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, Dawsn Teele, and Jakana Thomas. 

For more information, visit Rachel Brulé’s personal website.