| March Thu, 2019
Eagleton hosts event promoting free speech on college campuses
“The Eagleton Institute of Politics Center for Youth Political Participation held the event ‘Pizza and Politics: Fostering Civil Dialogue on Campus’ yesterday.”
| March Thu, 2019
No Longer The Default, Male Candidates Grapple With Identity Too
"Perhaps for the first time in presidential politics, white men are being asked about the degree to which their race and gender inform both their access to the presidency as well as their agendas and perspectives that they'll bring to presidential politics," said Kelly Dittmar, assistant professor at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
| March Thu, 2019
Some Democratic Candidates Face a Reckoning in a Diverse Field
“Kelly Dittmar, a scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, said a significant change in this election is that men are now required to discuss the role their gender plays in their campaigns. Women and people of color who run for office ‘have often had to talk a lot about why it matters that they’re women or people of color,’ she said, while white men are rarely asked about their identities.”
| March Thu, 2019
Joe Biden’s treatment of Anita Hill poses new problems as he ponders a presidential campaign
“Kelly Dittmar, assistant professor of political science at Rutgers University-Camden and a scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics, said it was particularly ironic that Biden made his remarks Tuesday night at the ‘Biden Courage Awards,’ an event honoring those who have worked to combat sexual assault on college campuses.”