Seeing Election 2020 through Gender and Intersectional Lenses

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Session Description

The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers University has been the primary source for data and analysis on gender and elections for nearly 50 years. In the past two cycles specifically, CAWP has managed Presidential Gender Watch 2016 and Gender Watch 2018 to track, analyze, and illuminate gender and intersectional dynamics in these historic elections. Both projects offered real-time analyses from scholar and practitioner perspectives. CAWP will offer similar analyses in election 2020 through our Election Watch and Presidential Watch projects, again tapping expert contributors to inform public dialogue of gender and race in this year’s multi-level elections.

In addition to providing the most up-to-date CAWP data on gender, race, and candidates in election 2020, this roundtable will bring together CAWP scholars and Gender Watch contributors to reflect on the gender, race, and intersectional dynamics at play in election 2020, offering key perspectives and insights into the role of gender and race in: campaign strategy, public opinion, voter evaluation and behavior, money in politics, media coverage, and political participation and engagement. Our discussion will also address the importance of applying scholarly research to real-time political events and suggest tactics by which scholars can best translate their expertise for public audiences. Finally, this roundtable will give scholars an opportunity to discuss and/or suggest new research projects or areas that have or might emerge from the 2020 election cycle.

Sub Unit

• Theme Panel

Cosponsor

• Division 31: Women and Politics Research

Chair

• Kelly Dittmar Rutgers University-Camden

Presenters

• Niambi M. Carter Howard University

• Kathleen Dolan University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

• Melanye Tarea Price Prairie View A&M University

• Anna Sampaio Santa Clara University

• Kira Sanbonmatsu Rutgers University, New Brunswick