Robin Kolodny

Robin Kolodny received her B.A. in Political Science from Florida International University in 1985 and her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Johns Hopkins University in 1992.  She is Professor of Political Science at Temple University, where she has taught since 1991.  Kolodny was an APSA (American Political Science Association) Congressional Fellow in 1995 when she worked in the office of Congresswoman Nancy L. Johnson of Connecticut.  In 1999, she received the Emerging Scholar Award from the Political Organizations and Parties Section of APSA.  During academic year 2008-09, Kolodny was named a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar to the United Kingdom, affiliated with the Department of Politics and Contemporary European Studies at the University of Sussex and the Sussex European Institute (SEI).  Kolodny is the author of Pursuing Majorities:  Congressional Campaign Committees in American Politics (University of Oklahoma Press, 1998) as well as numerous articles on political parties in the US Congress, in elections, and in comparative perspective.  She also writes extensively on political consultants and campaign finance in the US.