She received her B.A. in political science from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. Her current scholarship investigates how life cycle events and life stages shape the political attitudes and behaviors of individuals. In her first book, The Political Consequences of Motherhood (2014, University of Michigan Press), Greenlee investigates the complex relationship between motherhood and women’s political attitudes. She has continued to investigate the ways in which motherhood shapes women’s political engagement in a series of co-authored articles and book chapters.