Pamela Camerra-Rowe is a professor of Political Science at Kenyon College, where she has taught comparative, European, and American politics since 1994. Her research focuses on the role and changing nature of political parties and party systems in western Europe, interest groups and their influence on policy, democracy, and democratic backsliding. She is currently a guest professor at the University of Salzburg, where she is researching the strategies of European center-right parties in response to the rise of right-wing populist parties. She has served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in the U.S. Senate, a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow in the German Economics Ministry and at the Institute for European Politics (Bonn), and a DAAD scholar at the University of Bonn. She earned a Ph.D. and MA in Political Science at Duke University and a BA at Davidson College (NC). She worked as a journalist for The Charlotte (NC) Observer, as the U.S. Supreme Court reporter for Education Daily and Higher Education, and as the editor of School Law News.