MaryAnne Borrelli, Professor of Government at Connecticut College, received her BA from Wellesley College and her MA and PhD from Harvard University. Her teaching focuses on national institutions and on public policy in the United States, and she has earned awards for teaching excellence from the faculty and the Student Government Association. Professor Borrelli�s research centers on the workings of gender in the presidency; she has authored books and articles on the first ladyship and on cabinet appointments in the modern presidency.