How were gendered and intersectional dynamics both maintained and disrupted during the 2020 election cycle? In this seminar, Kelly Dittmar, Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University–Camden, will bring to bear multiple types of evidence–including candidate emergence, strategy, and success–to examine how (and if) political institutions that have long privileged masculinity, whiteness, and men were impacted in this most recent election cycle, highlighting how this may affect how the measures of electoral success for women in U.S. political institutions.
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Kelly Dittmar is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University–Camden and Director of Research and Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. She is the co-author of A Seat at the Table: Congresswomen’s Perspectives on Why Their Representation Matters (Oxford University Press, 2018) (with Kira Sanbonmatsu and Susan J. Carroll) and author of Navigating Gendered Terrain: Stereotypes and Strategy in Political Campaigns (Temple University Press, 2015).
