Thanks for the encouragement! I have a major study coming out in November which hits this on the head. The problem is that I am really not a very good writer (by Ph.D. standards) and stick mainly to statistics. I have tried to convince my co-author that we really do need to go after a book with what we have (we measured how political bias affects judgment in academics.) She is understandably skittish. To remove me would take some doing (although students in the past have been suborned to do the dirty work on other professors.) She, however, is in a less enviable position.
Still, when we release this, I am going to find a way to post it on FR and see what happens. I am not certain that the MSM can cover this up, but who knows?
McVey
I think that Encounter Books, the publisher of Rape of the Masters, would be interested in such a study as yours. (By the way, I think I've seen two posts with Roger Kimball and Rape of the Masters mentioned today alone....hurray!)
Tell your colleague to take heart and be courageous. I think we (on FR) are just itching for such a fight. Fire a fine, publishing professor because he or she is conservative, and watch the nation go ballistic.
Of course, I hope that doesn't happen to you all and that you get praised (and prizes) for great, ground-breaking research.
Oh, wait....there's another woman conservative out there! Man, we REALLY need to band together. :)