Research

My research interests fall broadly into two categories: the intersection law & public policy and political science pedagogy. 

I am particularly interested in how to better include LGBTQ content in political science courses. I co-edited the first volume on teaching LGBTQ politics, coming out in August 2025 with SUNY Press. I contributed two chapters to the book. The first, co-authored with RG Cravens, looks at the LGBTQ politics canon and recommends topics to include in courses dedicated to LGBTQ politics. The second chapter looks at how to include LGBTQ legal issues into courses, particularly looking beyond non-discrimination law and marriage equality. 

I hope this book helps faculty make their courses more LGBTQ-inclusive. 

My other pedagogy research focuses on active learning, primarily simulations like moot court. I also have written on how to use photography assignments to teach issues around inequality and the need for public policy programs to teach law more intentionally. 

I am exploring in particular the role of storytelling as a persuasive tool in law and policy disputes. I use same-sex marriage litigation as a case study to show that storytelling has a role in law, even at the appellate level. I am expanding this to other LGBTQ issues. I published a paper, co-written with a colleague from Northeastern University, on the ways that media links LGBT identity and race with American national identity. I also co-authored a paper looking at the experiences of drag performers engaged in get out of the vote efforts in the 2020 election. I followed that with a piece calling on political science to study drag. Currently, I am working with one of my graduate students to study the politics around drag story time events. 

My other area of research is on the CEDAW treaty, particularly looking at the Cities for CEDAW campaign to determine what factors contribute to local government adopting the international norms in the treaty, despite the failure to ratify the treaty federally. 

Below is a list of publications and works in progress.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles              

Book Chapters

  • 2025. Kammerer, Edward F., Jr. and R.G. Cravens. “LGBTQ Politics: Is There a Canon?” In Teaching LGBTQ Politics, edited by Edward F. Kammerer Jr., R.G. Cravens, and Erin Mayo-Adam. SUNY Press. (minor revisions pending).
  • 2025. Kammerer, Edward F., Jr. “Beyond Marriage & Discrimination: Including LGBTQ Issues in Public Law Courses.” In Teaching LGBTQ Politics, edited by Edward F. Kammerer Jr., R.G. Cravens, and Erin Mayo-Adam. SUNY Press.
  • 2024. Kammerer, Edward F., Jr. Ananda Keator, and Kellee J. Kirkpatrick. “Sizeable Burdens: Fashion, Fat Candidates, and Electoral Politics.” In Palgrave Handbook of Fashion and Politics edited by Karen M. Kedrowski, Candice Ortbals, Lori Poloni-Staudinger and J. Cherie Strachan.
  • 2022. Kammerer, Edward F., Jr., “Using Moot Court in Introduction to Law Courses.” In Simulations in the Political Science Classroom: Games without Frontiers, edited by Mark Harvey, James Fielder, and Ryan Gibb, 185-199. Routledge.
  • 2022. Newton, Monique, Brian Harrison and Edward Kammerer. “Political Science & LGTBTQ Identity: Thoughts & Advice for Graduate Students.” In Strategies for Navigating Graduate School and Beyond, edited by Kevin G. Lorentz II, Daniel J. Mallinson, Julia Marin Hellwege, Davin Phoenix, and J. Cherie Strachan, 371-377. American Political Science Association.

Book Reviews

Selected Works in Progress

  • “Character Development in Same-Sex Marriage Litigation: A Multi-State Comparison”
  • “LGBT Advocacy in the United States Supreme Court: Analyzing Lawyers’ Briefs from 1958-2022” (with Daryl Barker)
  • “The Library is Open: Drag, Story Time and the Politics of Reading” (with Jake Knievel)