Debbie
Walsh - bio
available here - photo available here
Director, CAWP |
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Ext.
227; e-mail:
Debbie Walsh is director of the Center for American Women and Politics
(CAWP). She joined the CAWP staff in 1981. As director of the
Center, she oversees CAWP's research, education and public
service programs. She is frequently called upon by the media
for information and comment and speaks to a variety of audiences
around the country on topics related to women's political participation. First
as director of CAWP's Program for Women Public Officials and
now as the Center's director, Walsh has led the Center's extensive
work with women officeholders and organized more than a dozen
national conferences for women officials. Debbie
serves on the board of The Women's Campaign Fund Research Fund.
She earned her B.A. in political science from SUNY Binghamton
and her M.A. in political science from Rutgers, where she was
an Eagleton Fellow.
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Susan
J. Carroll - bio available here; short
vita available here
Senior Scholar |
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Ext. 235; e-mail:
Susan Carroll joined the Center in 1981; she is also professor of political
science at Rutgers. She has conducted research on women candidates,
voters,
elected officials, and political appointees and is the author of various
works on women's political participation including Women as Candidates
in American Politics (Indiana University Press, Second Edition,
1994) and
editor of The Impact of Women in Public Office (Indiana, 2001)
and Women and American Politics: New Questions, New Directions (Oxford,
2003). Her Ph.D. in political science is from Indiana University.
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Katherine
Kleeman - bio available here
Senior Communications Officer |
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Ext. 231; e-mail:
Kathy Kleeman has been at the Center since 1980. She writes or edits many of the Center's proposals and publications and coordinates development of new programs and coordinates CAWP's work with Girl Scouts. Kleeman earned her A.B. from Harvard/Radcliffe and her Ed.M. from Harvard's Graduate School of Education.
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Ruth
B. Mandel - bio available here
Board of Governors Professor of Politics and Director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics |
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Ext 228; e-mail:
Ruth B. Mandel, a founder of CAWP in 1971, was its director until January 1995. Currently she is director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics and remains associated with CAWP as senior scholar. An expert on women and politics, she writes and teaches about women's political history and leadership. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Connecticut.
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Gilda
Morales - bio available here
Project Manager, Information Services |
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Ext. 264; e-mail:
Gilda Morales researches, collects and organizes current and historical
data on women's political participation. She responds to inquiries
from
media,
scholars, office holders and the general public. She earned her B.A.
from Douglass College, Rutgers University and is currently finishing
her master's degree in public administration.
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Susan
Nemeth
Director of Development |
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Ext. 229; e-mail:
As CAWP’s director of development since 1992, Nemeth has raised funds for national and regional Forums for Women State Legislators and Forums for Newly Elected Women State Legislators, NEW Leadership™ residential programs for college women, Ready to Run™ campaign training programs for women, and CAWP’s award-winning web site. In addition to managing the CAWP’s fundraising efforts, she also serves as a public relations specialist for the Center, helping to promote new programs and recruit participants. Nemeth earned a B.A. from Douglass College, graduating with high honors, and an A.A. from Middlesex County College, where she received a Faculty Award for Excellence in Studies of History and Social Behavior. Nemeth joined the CAWP staff
in 1991.
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Sasha
Patterson
Program Coordinator, NEW Leadership™ |
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Ext. 248; e-mail:
Sasha Patterson came to came to work at CAWP in August of 1999. Sasha received
her B.A. in political science from Northwestern University and her
M.A.
from Rutgers in 1995. She is presently a Ph.D. candidate in the political
science department at Rutgers, focusing on women and politics and public
law. She has written and presented a number of conference papers on
the issue of sexual harassment, and is in the process of collecting
data for her dissertation about women's experience with sexual harassment
law.
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Linda
Phillips
Unit Computing Specialist |
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Ext. 225; e-mail:
Linda is responsible for the production of various in-house publications
at CAWP and Eagleton, including the CAWP fact sheets and both the Eagleton and CAWP newsletters. In addition,
she is responsible for the creation and upkeep of the CAWP and Eagleton web sites
and provides computer support for CAWP and the Eagleton Institute of
Politics.
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Jessica Rowan
Administrative Assistant |
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Ext. 224; e-mail:
Jessica performs administrative duties for both CAWP and Eagleton. She is also responsible for the maintenance and general administration of the CAWP and Eagleton database and assists in providing desktop computer support.
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Kira Sanbonmatsu - C.V. available here
Associate Professor of Political Science and CAWP Senior Scholar |
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Ext. 265; e-mail:
Kira Sanbonmatsu is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and Senior Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. She received her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She was previously Associate Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University. Her research interests include gender, race/ethnicity, parties, public opinion, and state politics. She co-edits the CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics at the University of Michigan Press with Susan J. Carroll. Professor Sanbonmatsu is on leave 2007-08
She is the author of Where Women Run: Gender and Party in the American States (University of Michigan Press, 2006) and Democrats, Republicans, and the Politics of Women's Place (University of Michigan Press, 2002). Her articles have appeared in such journals as American Journal of Political Science, Politics & Gender, and Party Politics.
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Jean
Sinzdak
Project Manager, Program for Women Public Officials |
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Ext.
260; e-mail:
Jean
coordinates CAWP's New
Jersey initiatives, including Ready to Run™ New
Jersey and the Bipartisan Coalition for Women's Appointments. She
is developing a national expansion program modeled on Ready
to Run™ New Jersey.
Prior to joining CAWP, she served as director of outreach and communications
at the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) in Washington, DC. Prior
to IWPR, she worked at the Council for Urban Economic Development, also in
Washington, DC. Sinzdak received a Master of Social Work, specializing in social
and economic development, from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
and a B.A. in English from the University of Scranton.
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