MANUFACTURING THE MODERN POLITICAL CAMPAIGN

TO BE TOPIC OF PRESIDENTIAL DREAM COURSE LECTURE AT OU

NORMAN – “Manufacturing the Modern Political Campaign” will be the focus of a Presidential Dream Course public lecture to be presented Tuesday, Sept. 19, on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus.

Kim Fridkin, a professor of political science at Arizona State University, will be visiting OU in conjunction with the Presidential Dream Course “Gender, Power and Leadership,” being taught by Cindy Simon Rosenthal and Hannah Brenner.  Her lecture, “Manufacturing the Modern Political Campaign,” is set for 7:30 p.m. in the Associates Room in Oklahoma Memorial Union, 900 Asp Ave.  A dessert reception will follow her presentation.  

Launched in 2004-05, the university’s Dream Course program provides funding to bring in guest speakers of national and international stature and first-rate scholarship.

Fridkin is a political scientist from Arizona State University, where she began teaching in 1989 after receiving her bachelor of arts, master of arts and doctoral degrees from the University of Michigan.  She has contributed articles to several noteworthy journals in political science, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Politics and the Journal of Politics.  She is the co-author of No-Holds Barred: Negative Campaigning in U.S. Senate Campaigns, co-author of The Spectacle of U.S. Senate Campaigns and the author of The Political Consequences of Being a Woman.  Her current research interests are negative campaigning, women and politics, and civic engagement. 

For more information about Fridkin’s visit and/or accommodations on the basis of disability, please call (405) 325-6372.