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Faculty & Staff Directory
Cindy Simon Rosenthal is director and curator of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at The University of Oklahoma and associate professor of political science with a joint appointment to the women’s studies faculty. Professor Rosenthal has been a member of the Center faculty since 1998 and initially served as associate director, overseeing the Center’s undergraduate programs. Under her leadership, the Center 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 six 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 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 and 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. She contributed chapters to The Oklahoma Almanac of Politics (1998, 1999), Women and Elective Office (1998, 2005), and Women in Higher Education: Empowering Change (2002). Her work also has appeared in Political Research Quarterly, Policy Studies Journal, Legislative Studies Quarterly, State Legislatures, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and Women & Politics. She serves on the executive committee for the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association.
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.
Professor Rosenthal holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University, a master’s in urban studies from Occidental College, and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Oklahoma. From 1975 until 1991, she worked extensively with state legislatures – first with Legis 50/ The Center for Legislative Improvement, later at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), and then finally as a consultant with several states on various management, personnel, and training projects. She was on the NCSL senior management team and oversaw legislative management programs, state information services, and publications.
She was elected mayor of Norman, Oklahoma in 2007 after serving three years on the city council.
Contact Cindy Simon Rosenthal at csrosenthal@ou.edu. Click here to visit Professor Rosenthal’s Web Site.
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Glen S. Krutz is associate director of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at The University of Oklahoma and an associate professor of political science. He earned his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 1999 and served on the faculty of Arizona State University until 2002 when he joined the OU Political Science Department. He has been at the Carl Albert Center since February 2005.
At the Center, Dr. Krutz directs all OU undergraduate student programs. These programs include the long-standing Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program and the newer Civic Engagement Fellowship Program, both of which were up and running before he arrived at the Center. Since coming to the Center, Krutz successfully restructured the undergraduate research program (in 2007) and oversaw the implementation of two new student programs: Capitol Scholars and Community Scholars. Both programs involve a cohort model, to include an internship experience at the State Capitol (in the case of Capitol Scholars) or in the local community (Community Scholars) together with a weekly undergraduate seminar in which the scholars meet as a group.
In addition to his leadership of the Center’s undergraduate programs, Dr. Krutz pursues an ambitious research agenda. His research probes questions of public policy agenda-setting in democratic political institutions (especially Congress). His research explores the inter-play between political institutional structure and public policy. His various projects relate to two sets of research questions. The first is “how do democratic political institutions process policy issues?” More specifically, why are some issues seriously considered while others fall by the wayside? A second question he studies is “how and why do institutions change the way in which they process issues?”
Dr. Krutz is currently pursuing a variety of large-scale projects on congressional policymaking and representative government, including studies of the legislative winnowing process in Congress and the evolution of the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Indian Affairs. His book manuscript, Taking It to the Senate? Presidential-Congressional Governance and the Rise of Executive Agreements (with Jeffrey Peake), is currently under review for publication. Professor Krutz has published over 20 journal articles and edited books chapters. His first book, Hitching a Ride: Omnibus Legislating in the U.S. Congress (The Ohio State University Press, Parliaments and Legislatures Series, 2001), examined the rise and impact of mega-bills in the U.S. House and Senate.
Krutz has received numerous awards for his research. In 2007, he won the Patrick J. Fett Award of the Midwest Political Science Association for a paper written with Jon Bond and Richard Fleisher. Also in 2007, he was named Outstanding Oklahoma Political Scientist of the Year. In 2000, he received two national awards from the American Political Science Association: the Carl Albert Award for the best dissertation in legislative studies, and the E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best dissertation in the field of American government. Professor Krutz also received the 1999 George W. Kunze Prize and Endowed Graduate Fellowship, given annually to the outstanding graduating Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University.
Prior to pursuing an academic career, Krutz worked in politics and policy. He served as a campaign assistant and then Washington aide to U.S. Senator Richard Bryan (D-Nevada). He also served as research analyst (and federal liaison), then special assistant to the chancellor, in the Office of the Chancellor, University of Nevada System (now called the Nevada System of Higher Education).
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Ronald M. Peters, Jr., Regents’ Professor of Political Science, joined the University of Oklahoma in 1975 after having received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University. He served as the director and curator of the Carl Albert Center from its beginning in 1979 through June 2000, and he was chair of the Political Science Department from 1994 to 2002. His major teaching interests are in the areas of political theory and American government.
He is the author of articles on constitutional government and democratic theory and a book, The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780: A Social Compact (Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1978), which examines the political theory of the American Revolution. He has also published The American Speakership: The Office in Historical Perspective (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1990; 1997), which is based, in part, on a year spent in Washington working in the Speaker’s office and on research materials housed at the Carl Albert Center. He is also co-editor (with Allen Hertzke) of The Atomistic Congress: An Interpretation of Congressional Change (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe Press, 1992), editor of The Next Generation: Dialogues Between Leaders and Students (Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), and editor of The Speaker: Leadership in the U.S. House (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, Inc., 1995). He serves as editor of APSA’s Legislative Studies Section Newsletter and the Carl Albert Center publication, Extensions.
Professor Peters is the winner of the Amoco Good Teaching Award and the Regents Award for Distinguished Teaching, and he was recognized by the Oklahoma Political Science Association as the Outstanding Oklahoma Political Scientist for 1995.
Contact Ron Peters at rpeters@ou.edu. Click here to visit Professor Peters’s Web Site.
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LaDonna Sullivan is responsible for strategic planning and budgets, office management, and special events. She also serves as managing editor for APSA’s Legislative Studies Section Newsletter and the Carl Albert Center publication, Extensions. She has worked at the center since 1988.
LaDonna is a member of the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Financial and Administrative Management and served as chair of that committee during academic year 1999-2000. Other service to the university community has included six years on the Employment Benefits Committee, three years on the Personnel Policies Committee, three years on Staff Senate, and a year as president of the Managerial Staff Association. In 1994, she received from the university a Superior Performance Award for outstanding job performance.
She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Anderson University with a major in English and a minor in education.
Contact LaDonna Sullivan by email at ljsullivan@ou.edu.
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Carolyn Hanneman holds B.S. and M.A. degrees from Oklahoma State University and an M.L.I.S. from the University of Oklahoma. She oversees the processing of collections, handles reference requests, supervises student employees, and creates special exhibits.
Since coming to the center in 1996, Carolyn has worked on a number of exhibits. In 2002, she created “Climbing Capitol Hill . . . and Staying,” an exhibit that was displayed in conjunction with the Center’s “Women Transforming Congress” conference. In 2004, she worked on “Doing Their Part: Oklahomans and the World War II Experience” which told the stories of Oklahomans, both ordinary and famous, who did amazing things to support the war effort. More recently, Carolyn worked on “We Know We Belong to the Land – A Hundred Years of Oklahoma and the Congress.” This exhibit highlighted the contributions of all Oklahomans who have served in the U.S. Congress and was created in celebration of the state’s centennial. All of these exhibits have been displayed in libraries and historical societies throughout the state of Oklahoma.
In addition, Carolyn has written numerous historical articles and contributed fifty entries to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture. Also, she co-edited with Richard Lowitt, Forty Years a Legislator, which is the memoir of Senator Elmer Thomas.
Carolyn is a member of the Oklahoma Historical Society, the Society of Southwest Archivists, the Society of American Archivists, Beta Phi Mu, and the American Library Association.
Contact Carolyn Hanneman by email at channeman@ou.edu. Click here to visit the Carl Albert Center Archives online.
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Erin Sloan |
Erin Sloan joined the staff as an archivist in 2005 after working in the Carl Albert Center Archives for two years as a graduate assistant. She has two degrees from the University of Oklahoma, graduating magna cum laude with a B.A. in history and a Master’s of Library and Information Studies.
In addition to assisting researchers in the Carl Albert Center Archives, Erin processes new collections, helps create exhibits, and maintains the archives web site.
Erin is a member of the Society of American Archivists and the Society of Southwest Archivists. She was inducted into the Academy of Certified Archivists in 2006.
Contact Erin Sloan by email at sloan@ou.edu. Click here to visit the Carl Albert Center Archives online.
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Jeanene H. Letcher |
Jeanene H. Letcher is a part-time archivist who has been processing collections since joining the Carl Albert Center Congressional Archives in 2006. She previously served for more than six years as Region 6 Archivist for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Columbus, Ohio. Jeanene also worked for Trinity Lutheran Seminary, University Museum at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, University Archives at SIUC, and several local historical societies in Pennsylvania.
Jeanene earned her Bachelor of Art in History from Millersville University of Pennsylvania and her Master of Art in History from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She is a member of Daughters of the American Revolution, American Association of Museums, Midwest Archives Conference, Society of Southwest Archivists, and Society of American Archivists, and she is on the board of directors of the Lutheran Historical Conference.
Contact Jeanene Letcher at jhletcher@ou.edu. Click here to visit the Carl Albert Center Archives online
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Hannah Brenner |
Hannah Brenner is the Director of Women’s Leadership Programs at the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center. In this capacity, she coordinates the center’s civic education programs that address the historical under-representation of women in politics and public service, including the annual N.E.W. Leadership undergraduate program, and the Pipeline to Politics initiative. Hannah also teaches in the Department of Women’s Studies at OU; her recent courses include Women and the Law and Women Creating Social Change. Last fall, she co-taught a course with Cindy Simon Rosenthal, called Gender, Power & Leadership, which received recognition and funding as an OU Presidential Dream Course, enabling them to bring in guests such as former Vermont Governor Madeline Kunin, Former New Jersey Governor, Christine Todd Whitman, and Political Science scholars, Kim Fridkin and Jennifer Lawless.
Originally from Chicago, Hannah received her BA from the University of Iowa in Women’s Studies and American Studies, and completed her law degree at University of Iowa College of Law where she received awards for academic achievement and public interest work.
Her interests include law, politics, activism, public policy, women’s and human rights. She has served as rural
services director for the Rape Victim Advocacy Program Iowa, executive director of the Oklahoma Appleseed Center for Law and Justice; and director of the Women’s Outreach Center at University of Oklahoma. In 2004, after receiving significant grant funding from the Oklahoma State Department of Health, Hannah returned to the Appleseed Law Center for a year to coordinate the new Oklahoma Bullying Prevention Initiative, a coalition of nonprofit state organizations working to influence policy and ultimately reduce school bullying/harassment and its related problems like poor academic performance, high risk of future incarceration and suicide.
Hannah lives in Oklahoma City with her husband Adam, a new media artist and professor at OU, and her three children, Isaac, Aidan and Willow. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Jewish Federation of Greater Oklahoma City, and is currently volunteering as a grant writer for the Mary Abbott Children’s House Capital Campaign. In her free time, she enjoys renovating old homes, cooking great vegetarian food, traveling, and spending time with her family.
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Kay Blunck |
Kay Blunck maintains the financial records of the Carl Albert Center, processes invoices and other payment requests, and prepares monthly financial reports. She also assists faculty, staff, and fellows with travel arrangements and reimbursements.
Before coming to the center in 2001, Kay worked several years in the university’s Financial Support Services office and at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. She also worked in a family-owned business, Blunck’s School Photography.
Contact Kay Blunck by email at kblunck@ou.edu. |
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Laurie McReynolds |
Laurie McReynolds has been providing clerical support to the faculty and staff of the Carl Albert Center since 1999. She also assists in planning and coordinating special events, serves as editorial assistant for publications, and is the office receptionist.
She received a Distinguished Service Award from the university in 2003 for outstanding job performance. In the community, she serves on the board of directors for Sooner Theatre.
Contact Laurie McReynolds by email at llmcreynolds@ou.edu.
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