Back to Class: Will the United States Elect Its First Woman President?

With a Black woman as the Democratic Presidential candidate, gender and race are once again at the forefront of political debate. Join us for our Homecoming Back to Class talk with Anna Mahoney, Executive Director of the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences at Dartmouth. She will explore how women have participated in U.S. politics in the past and what this tells us about the women participating today. Do gender and race matter in elections and policymaking? How are gender and race playing a role in this year's election? What can we expect from women voters this fall? 

The talk will take place on Saturday, November 2 at 10:00 am in the Loew Auditorium at the Black Family Visual Arts Center.  Refreshments will be served. 

Information about our speaker:

Anna Mahoney
Executive Director of the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, Government Department Lecturer 

Dr. Anna Mitchell Mahoney is the executive director of the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College and a lecturer in the Department of Government. Mahoney conducts research centered on women's representation and gendered institutions. Her work has been published in Politics and Gender, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, and Representation. Her book, Women Take Their Place in State Legislatures: The Creation of Women's Caucuses, was published by Temple University Press in 2018. Mahoney earned a B.A. from Loyola University in mass communications, a M.A. in women's studies from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in political science from Rutgers University.