Will the United States Elect its First Women President?
A Homecoming Back to Class talk featuring Professor Anna Mahoney
About The Program
With a Black woman as the Democratic Presidential candidate in 2024, gender and race are once again at the forefront of political debate. In the 2024 Homecoming Back to Class talk, Anna Mahoney, Executive Director of the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences at Dartmouth, explores how women have participated in U.S. politics in the past and what this tells us about the women participating today.
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.