Ivy Cargile - The Hillary Effect: Perspectives on Clinton’s Legacy

The Hillary Effect

Perspectives on Clintons Legacy

Ivy A. M. Cargile, Denise S. Davis, Jennifer L. Merolla, and Rachel VanSickle-Ward

This book is a work of collaboration, and we are deeply grateful to everyone who made it possible. First and foremost, thank you to the wonderful contributors. The chapters are short, but the work and thought behind them is considerable. Often they represent years of research and/or professional efforts. In some cases they include discussion of deeply personal experiences. We are grateful to our contributors for their brilliant pieces, and for the trust they put in us as editors to put the pieces together.

We are further grateful to colleagues who offered guidance and support as we developed this project. Many of these folks are contributors, others include Kim Dionne, Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Matt Grossman, Jane Junn, Laura Stephenson, John Sides, and Kathy Yep. Pitzer students in Professor VanSickle-Wards Women in Politics senior seminar offered thoughtful feedback as well.

Our thanks also go to our editorial team at Bloomsbury Publishing. This volume would not be possible without the enthusiasm, support and guidance of Nayiri Kendir and Tomasz Hoskins. Leela Ulaganathan shepherded us through the production process with patience and care. Reviewers provided constructive commentary, and the volume is significantly improved by their recommendations. We are further grateful to institutional support provided by Pitzer College, California State University, Bakersfield, and the University of California, Riverside.

On a personal note, and especially because this book is a labor of love, we want to thank the many loved ones who supported us in the endeavor. Rachel would particularly like to thank Neil, her wonderful kids, Mom, Andy, Dad, Deb, Mitch, Zack, Joel, Carrie and Rich. Jennifer would like to thank Andy, her empathetic son, her spirited daughter, and her supportive parents and in-laws. Ivy would like to thank Brian for always being so steadfast in his support of all she does, her brilliant group of women friends who never leave her side, and her amazing mother who taught her to be ambitious, confident and strong. Denise would like to thank her mother, Suze, who introduced her to Hillarys work and impact at a young age and has always been her inspiration to do good in the world.

And, last but not least, we would like to thank Hillary Rodham Clinton, for her decades of public service and dedication to amplifying the voices of those who have traditionally not been given a seat at the table of politics.

Sara Angevine is an assistant professor of Political Science at Whittier College in Whittier, California. Her research and teaching interests focus on women and politics. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript that examines the policy objectives of, and congressional motivations behind, womens rights in US foreign policy. Angevine received her PhD in Political Science at Rutgers University-New Brunswick in 2014. She earned a Masters in Womens and Gender Studies at the University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa, and an International Gender Studies Certificate from Utrecht University in The Netherlands. She has advanced training in quantitative, qualitative and feminist research methods. Prior to Whittier, Angevine taught political science and gender studies courses at Brooklyn College, CUNY; Barnard College, Columbia University; and Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She also spent one year living in Ljubljana, Slovenia, teaching English. Before graduate school, she worked on federal election campaigns in the United States in Indiana (2002) and Oregon (2004). Originally from Madison, Wisconsin, she currently resides in Long Beach, California, where she enjoys playing beach volleyball, learning the nuances of California food culture and creating her own definition of seasons.

Christina Bejarano is Professor of Multicultural Womens and Gender Studies at Texas Womans University. She received her bachelors from the University of North Texas and her Masters and PhD from the University of Iowa. She is a nationally recognized author, speaker and adviser on Latina electoral politics in the United States. She studies the conditions under which racial/ethnic minorities and women successfully compete for US electoral office, which is reflected in her book on Latina political candidates, The Latina Advantage: Gender, Race, and Political Success (2013). Her work also focuses on how racial/ethnic minorities and women can shape or influence the current electoral environment, which is reflected in her second book, The Latino Gender Gap in U.S. Politics (2014).

Angela L. Bos is an associate professor of Political Science and associate dean of Experiential Learning at the College of Wooster. She received her Masters and PhD in American Politics and a PhD minor in Political Psychology in 2007 from the University of Minnesota and her Bachelors in Political Science from the University of Minnesota-Morris. Bos studies and teaches courses about American Politics on topics such as women and politics, political psychology, civic education and media and politics. She coedited the book The Political Psychology of Women in U.S. Politics (2016) and has published in journals such as Political Psychology , Political Communication , Politics & Gender , and the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

Dr. Paulette Brown-Hinds is the founder of Voice Media Ventures and the second-generation publisher of The Black Voice News . She is an award-winning columnist and Knight Digital Media Fellow, with nearly thirty years experience in media, communications and community engagement. She is the president of the California News Publishers Association, the first African American to lead the organization in its 130-year history. She also sits on the boards of the Community Foundation of Inland Southern California, the California Press Foundation and the James Irvine Foundation.

She earned a Bachelors in English Literature from CSU San Bernardino and her Masters and PhD from UC Riverside in English Literature. She leads Underground Railroad Study Tours for the Black Voice Foundation, stewards a collection of rare antebellum slavery artifacts and teaches a course at UCR on arts, enterprise and the community. Brown-Hinds is the founder of Mapping Black California, a geospatial technology community mapping GIS and STEAM initiative, with a goal of building a smart and connected African American community in the Golden State.

David Campbell is the Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy at the University of Notre Dame and the chairperson of the Political Science Department. His most recent book is Seeking the Promised Land: Mormons and American Politics (with John Green and Quin Monson). He is also the co-author (with Robert Putnam) of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us , which has been described by the New York Times as intellectually powerful; by America as an instant classic; and by the San Francisco Chronicle as the most successfully argued sociological study of American religion in more than half a century. American Grace has also received both the 2011 Woodrow Wilson Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book on government, politics or international affairs and the Wilbur Award from the Religious Communicators Council for the best non-fiction book of 2010.

Campbell is also the author of Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape Our Civic Life , the editor of A Matter of Faith: Religion in the 2004 Presidential Election and a co-editor of Making Civics Count: Citizenship Education for a New Generation . As an expert on religion, politics and civic engagement, he has often been featured in the national media, including the New York Times , Economist , USA Today , Washington Post , Wall Street Journal , Time , NBC News, CNN, NPR, Fox News, and C-SPAN.