News from the Center
LaDonna Sullivan
The Carl Albert Center enters its
twenty-fifth year under new leadership. Professor
Gary Copeland stepped down as director and curator of the Center
effective February 1 to pursue other professional opportunities as a
regular faculty member of the Department of Political Science. Professor Cindy Simon Rosenthal has been
promoted to the director/curator position by the Board of Regents of the
University of Oklahoma, and Professor Glen Krutz has joined the Center
as associate director.
Professor
Rosenthal has been a member of the Center faculty since 1998 and served
as associate director, overseeing the Center's undergraduate programs. Under her leadership, the Center has developed
its highly successful N.E.W. (National Education for Women's)
Leadership, a program to encourage and empower undergraduate women to
enter public service and politics. N.E.W.
Leadership has been honored three times by Oklahoma's Journal-Record "Woman of the Year" celebration as a program
"making a difference."
Professor
Rosenthal's research and teaching interests focus on women in politics,
public sector and legislative leadership, state government and
intergovernmental relations, and public policy issues involving gender
inequality. She recently edited Women
Transforming Congress (Norman,
OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002) and is the author of When
Women Lead (New
York: Oxford University Press, 1998). In
1996, the Women & Politics Section of the American Political
Science Association recognized her dissertation on institutional
constraints and leadership styles of men and women in state legislatures
as the best in the field of women in politics. Her
work has also been recognized with the Sophonisba Breckinridge Award
given for the best paper on women and politics at the Midwest Political
Science Association meeting.
Among her awards and honors, Professor Rosenthal
was named the Carlisle Mabrey and Lurleen Mabrey Presidential Professor
in 2002 and was named Outstanding Oklahoma Political Scientist of the
Year in 2000 by the Oklahoma Political Science Association. She
is a product of the Center's Carl Albert Graduate Fellowship Program,
receiving her doctoral degree in 1995, and also brings a long
professional background with state legislatures through her work with
the National Conference of State Legislatures.
In
accepting her new position, Professor Rosenthal noted "I feel honored
and privileged to have the opportunity to lead the Carl Albert Center,
following such distinguished directors as Gary Copeland and Ron Peters. I hope to be able to continue the Center's
record of leadership fostering academic study of Congress and to build
its leadership development programs strengthening public understanding
of and participation in representative government."
Glen
Krutz moves to the Center from the Political Science Department. Professor Krutz has developed a distinguished
record of research on the U.S. Congress. His
research explores the inter-play between institutional structure and
public policy issues from the perspective of agenda-setting in Congress,
institutional genesis and change, environmental policy, and budgeting.
His first book, Hitching a Ride (Ohio State University Press, Parliaments and
Legislatures Series, 2001), examines the rise and impact of omnibus
legislating in Congress. The book expanded
upon his doctoral dissertation, which received the 2000 Carl Albert
Award for the best dissertation from APSA's Legislative Studies Section
and also won the 2000 E.E. Schattschneider Award for best dissertation
in the field of American government. Professor
Krutz earned his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 1999 and served
on the faculty of Arizona State University until 2002 when he came to
the University of Oklahoma.
Professor
Krutz brings to the Center an active research agenda on congressional
issues as well as professional experience working on Capitol Hill as an
aide to a U.S. Senator. "Professor Krutz will
energize and extend the Center's research mission, while providing
important leadership to our undergraduate programs," Rosenthal noted.
The
Center transition is made easier by the fact that Regents' Professor
Ron Peters will continue in his current position on the Center's faculty
as editor of publications, LaDonna Sullivan will remain as assistant to
the director and liaison to the Legislative Studies Section of APSA,
and Hannah Brenner will provide continuity for the Center's civic
education and leadership efforts.
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