Dr. Rosalyn Cooperman, professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington, will present a talk on “Women’s Political Candidacy in the Age of Trump” on Tuesday, July 21 at 7 p.m. via Zoom video conference. There is no cost to attend, but your registration in advance is required in order to receive the Zoom login information. Those without access to Zoom video can still participate by telephone and should indicate phone-only when registering. Please register by sending an email to Jen Heinz, LOW Dems Program Chair, at jenheinz6103@gmail.com by Monday, July 20.
Dr. Cooperman will discuss the political candidacy to Congress of women, drawing on examples from the two most recent election cycles, 2018 and 2020. She’ll share her perspective and her research on how women navigate gender and party on the campaign trail. Her talk will be followed by a question and answer period.
Rosalyn Cooperman is Professor of Political Science at the University of Mary Washington. Professor Cooperman earned a B.A. in Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, and a Ph.D. in Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on women’s political participation, campaign finance, and the political behavior of party activists, and her work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, American Politics Research, and Social Science Quarterly. Since 2004, Cooperman has served as a Principal Investigator for the Convention Delegate Study (CDS), a survey of Democratic and Republican Party delegates. The CDS, initiated in 1972, is the longest standing survey of U.S. party activists. Since 2016 Professor Cooperman has served as an Expert Contributor for Gender Watch, a program of the Center for American Women in Politics at Rutgers University, which tracks women’s political candidacy in U.S. elections. Professor Cooperman is presently working on a book manuscript, Pink and Blue Waves in Old Dominion: Women Legislators in the Virginia General Assembly.
The Zoom login information will be sent to all registrants the day before the program. If you have not used Zoom before, no worries! Please indicate that when you register and a time will be scheduled for Zoom training in advance of the program.
Questions may be directed to Jen Heinz at jenheinz6103@gmail.com. We hope you can join us!
This event will end a year of great work supporting Democratic candidates in our region, state and nation. Officers for 2019 will be introduced at the luncheon.