Frances E. Lee is professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University. Her research focuses on U.S. national politics and policymaking, especially on the Congress. She is author of Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign (2016) and Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate (2009). In addition, she is coauthor of In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us (2025), The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era (2020), Sizing Up The Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation (1999) and a textbook, Congress and Its Members. Her research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and other outlets. She is the recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book on American national policy and its Richard F. Fenno prize for the best book in legislative studies. She is also a two-time recipient of the D.B. Hardeman Prize presented by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation for the best book on Congress. She is editor of the Cambridge Elements Series in American Politics and a series editor for the Chicago Studies in American Politics. In 2002-2003, she worked on Capitol Hill as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow. In 2019 she was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.