Conway has published extensively on the topic of political behavior and its interactions with gender and race.
She was a co-author, with Pei-te Lien and Janelle Wong, of the 2004 book The Politics of Asian Americans.
[4] In The Politics of Asian Americans, Lien, Conway, and Wong use a national survey to study Asian Americans' progress and the social barriers that remain, and to measure the extent of their political participation and social integration.
[7] Conway has also studied the question of why so few women held public office in the United States through the end of the 20th century.
[8] Conway received the 2004 Frank J. Goodnow Award from The American Political Science Association, which is awarded to recognize "outstanding service to the political science community and to the Association".