{"id":37,"date":"2017-12-06T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/professor-example\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2023-03-29T16:12:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T16:12:48","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kelly-dittmar\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-545 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kelly-dittmar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/491\/2022\/10\/Headshot_2022-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kelly-dittmar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/491\/2022\/10\/Headshot_2022-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kelly-dittmar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/491\/2022\/10\/Headshot_2022-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kelly-dittmar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/491\/2022\/10\/Headshot_2022-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kelly-dittmar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/491\/2022\/10\/Headshot_2022-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kelly-dittmar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/491\/2022\/10\/Headshot_2022-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Kelly Dittmar is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University\u2013Camden and Director of Research at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. She is the co-author of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/a-seat-at-the-table-9780190915735?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;#\">A Seat at the Table: Congresswomen\u2019s Perspectives on Why Their Representation Matters\u00a0<\/a><\/em>(Oxford University Press, 2018) (with Kira Sanbonmatsu and Susan J. Carroll) and\u00a0author of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.temple.edu\/tempress\/titles\/2326_reg.html\"><em>Navigating Gendered Terrain: Stereotypes and Strategy in Political Campaigns<\/em><\/a> (Temple University Press, 2015). Dittmar\u2019s research focuses on gender and American political institutions. At CAWP, Dittmar manages national research projects, helps to develop and implement CAWP\u2019s research agenda, and contributes to CAWP reports, publications, and analyses. She also works with partner organizations, public leaders, and scholars to foster collaboration and promote actionable research development and translation.<\/p>\n<p>Dittmar currently serves as a co-editor of <em>Politics &amp; Gender, <\/em>an agenda-setting journal that publishes the highest quality scholarship on women, gender, and politics. She is also a contributor to <em>Forbes Women<\/em> and has been an expert source and commentator for media outlets including <em>MSNBC<\/em>,\u00a0<em>NPR<\/em>,\u00a0<em>PBS,<\/em>\u00a0the\u00a0<em>New York Times,\u00a0<\/em>and the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Dittmar was an American Political Science Association (APSA) Congressional Fellow from 2011 to 2012, where she served as a legislative aide on education, labor, social welfare, and women\u2019s issues. She previously worked as a Federal Legislative Assistant for Governor Jennifer Granholm (MI).<\/p>\n<p>Dittmar earned her B.A. from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI and her Ph.D. from Rutgers University-New Brunswick.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kelly-dittmar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/491\/2022\/03\/KDittmar-CV_3.21.22-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download CV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Dittmar is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University\u2013Camden and Director of Research at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at the Eagleton Institute of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kelly-dittmar\/about\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-custom.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>About - Kelly Dittmar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kelly-dittmar\/about\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About - Kelly Dittmar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kelly Dittmar is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University\u2013Camden and Director of Research at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at the Eagleton Institute of &hellip; 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