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	Mailing Address: Dr. Karen M. Kedrowski, Professor and Chair; Department of Political Science, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC 29733
	Office: 328 Bancroft Hall
	Fall 2008 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:00-9:00 a.m. and by appointment.
	Final Exam Week Office Hours: Monday, December 15, 10-11 a.m., Tuesday, December 16, 9-10 a.m., and by appointment.
	Phone: (803) 323-4662
	Fax:  (803) 323-2568
	E-mail: kedrowskik@winthrop.edu
	Curriculum Vita

	Important Academic Policies:     Personal Grading Statement (plus/minus grading). Consistent with Departmental norms, and applicable to all courses.      Political Science Department's statement on Academic Misconduct and Plagiarism.
	Fall 2008 course: Media and Politics (PLSC 314). Syllabus Seventh (and last) Media Analysis Assignment (Assigned November 18; due November 24). Extra Credit Movie analysis description FINAL EXAMINATION: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16 AT 11:30 A.M.
	Student Organizations: I am the faculty advisor to the Winthrop University College Democrats and Students for Barack Obama. I'm also serve on the Advisory Board of Pi Gamma Mu, the International Social Science Honors Society.
	Research and Areas of Interest: I am formally trained as a congressional scholar, and have studied several aspects of congressional communication. My dissertation was published as Media Entrepreneurs and the Media Enterprise in the US Congress (1996, Hampton Press ). I am currently working on a study of media coverage of Representative Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives. In addition, I have an interest in health policy and women's issues. I have complete two major studies of cancer policy in the US [Kedrowski and Sarow, Cancer Activism (2007, University of Illinois Press)] and breastfeeding rights in the US [Kedrowski and Lipscomb, Breastfeeding Rights in the US, (2008, Praeger Publishers). PowerPoint Presentations from La Leche League International of South Carolina Conference, April 29, 2006. Public Attitudes Towards Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Rights in the United States Paper and PowerPoint presentation for Oxford Roundtable on Women's Rights, March, 2008.  Breastfeeding Rights and Policies in an International Human Rights Context (full text) Breastfeeding Rights and Policies in an International Human Rights Context (PowerPoint Presentation)

Brief Biography: I am the youngest of two children. My Mom was a housewife and my Dad was a mechanic and part-time farmer. I was raised on a small farm outside a small town in central Minnesota.  I spent the first 18 years of my life trying to get off that small farm and far away from that small town. I succeeded when I moved to the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul) to attend college. I have degrees from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and the Carl Albert Center at the University of Oklahoma. I am also a graduate of the Coro Foundation Fellows program. I came to Winthrop University in 1994 after working as a health policy analyst for Families USA in Washington DC. I have been department chair since November 2000. Today, I live in Rock Hill with my husband, my two children and my dog. In my spare time, I like to play with my kids, go to the movies, travel, play the piano (I'm terrible), play the flute (I'm not bad), and dabble in the garden.

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