Anna Mitchell Mahoney
anna.m.mahoney@dartmouth.edu
603-646-3876
annammahoney.com
Education
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Ph.D. in Political Science, October 2013
Fields: American Politics, Women and Politics, Globalization
Dissertation: “The Politics of Women’s Legislative Caucuses.”
The University of Alabama, Master of Women’s Studies, August 2004
Loyola University New Orleans, Bachelor of Arts, May 2000, Mass Communications, Political Science
(minor)
Teaching Experience
Tulane University
Women’s Legislative Leadership (service learning), Case Studies in Leadership: Lessons from Hurricane
Katrina, Women Leading Change: Case Studies on Women in Organizations (writing intensive),
Introduction to Public Policy, American Government (in partnership with the Louisiana Correctional
Institute for Women)
Rutgers University
Women and American Politics, Introduction to American Government, Congressional Politics, American
Race Relations, Elections and Participation, The Politics of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, Political
Leadership
University of Alabama
Introduction to Women’s Studies
Instructional Training
Tulane University
Center for Public Service Faculty Seminar, One Wave Staff Training and Bystander Training, Ally
Training, Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching Online Teaching Training
Book
Mahoney, Anna Mitchell. 2018. Women Take Their Place in State Legislatures: The Creation of Women’s
Caucuses. Temple University Press. Reviewed in Gender & Society; Perspectives in Politics; and
Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy.
Peer Reviewed Publications
Daniel, Clare, Anna Mahoney, and Grace Riley. 2024. “The Politics of Problem Definition: Abortion Policy in Republican-Controlled Louisiana.” Social Sciences. 13(8). https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13080387
Brown, Nadia E., Christopher J. Clark, Anna Mitchell Mahoney, and Michael Strawbridge. 2023. “Sister
Space: Collective Descriptive Representation and Black Women in Legislative Caucuses.” Politics &
Gender (2023): 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X22000599
Holman, Mirya and Anna Mahoney. 2022. “Take (Her) to the Limit: Term Limits do Not Diminish Women’s
Overperformance in Legislative Office.” Legislative Studies Quarterly.
https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12406
Evans, Melissa Goldin, Maeve Wallace, Katherine P. Theall, Anna Mitchell Mahoney, Lisa Richardson, and
Clare M. Daniel. 2022. “State-Level Recommendations to Reduce Inequities in Sexually Transmitted
Infections.” Women’s Health Issues 32(5): 427-430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2022.07.002
Mahoney, Anna. 2022. “Community Engagement and State Legislative Research.” PS: Political Science &
Politics, 55(3), 568 – 571. doi:10.1017/S1049096522000087
Holman, Mirya R., Anna Mahoney, and Emma Hurler. 2021. “Let’s Work Together: Bill Success via
Women’s Cosponsorship in US State Legislatures.” Political Research Quarterly. 75(3): 676-690.
doi:10.1177/10659129211020123
Holman, Mirya and Anna Mahoney. 2019. “The Choice is Yours: Caucus Typologies and Collaboration in
U.S. State Legislatures.” Representation. 55(1): 47-63.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2019.1581079
Holman, Mirya R. and Anna Mahoney. 2018. “Stop, Collaborate, and Listen: Women’s Collaboration in
U.S. State Legislatures.” Legislative Studies Quarterly. 43(2): 179-206. doi: 10.1111/lsq.12199
Mahoney, Anna Mitchell and Christopher J. Clark. 2018. “When and Where Do Women’s Legislative
Caucuses Emerge?” Politics and Gender. 15(4):671-694. doi: 10.1017/S1743923X18000806
Book Chapters
Mahoney, Anna. “Margaret Chase Smith: Speaking Truth to Power in Cold War America.” In Junctures in
Women’s Political Leadership. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, under
review.
Holman, Mirya R. and Anna Mahoney. “Women in Louisiana Politics: Barriers and Opportunities.” in The
Party is Over: The New Louisiana Politics, edited by G. Pearson Cross and Christie Maloyed. Baton
Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press, 2022.
Mahoney, Anna, Meghan Kearney, and Carly Shaffer. “MeToo in the Statehouse.” in Politicking While
Female: The Political Lives of Women, edited by Nichole M. Bauer, 158-179. Baton Rouge,
Louisiana: LSU Press, 2020.
Special Issues
Brown, Nadia, Christopher J. Clark, Anna Mahoney, Orly Siow, and Michael G. Strawbridge. “Intersectional Identity and Representative Politics.” Politics & Gender, First View , pp. 1 – 7. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X24000199
Brown, Nadia, Christopher J. Clark, and Anna Mahoney. 2022. Eds. “Special Issue: Women of Color
Political Elites in the U.S.” Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy. 43(3).
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wwap20/43/3?nav=tocList
Brown, Nadia, Christopher J. Clark, and Anna Mahoney. 2022. Eds. “Special Issue: Women of Color
Political Elites in the U.S.” Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy. 43(1).
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wwap20/43/1?nav=tocList
Brown, Nadia E., Christopher J. Clark, and Anna Mahoney. 2022. “The Black Women of the US Congress:
Learning from Descriptive Data.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy (2022): 1-19.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2022.2074757
Select Works in Progress
“Cultivating a Civic Identity using a Feminist Cohort Model: An Analysis of Tulane’s Newcomb Scholars
Program,” with Ryan McBride, Agnieszka Nance, Aidan Smith.
Strawbridge, Michael, Nadia Brown, Christopher J. Clark, and Anna Mahoney. “It’s Not Just What She Said;
It’s How She Said It: Congressional Black Caucus Members’ Representational Style on Twitter.”
Public Facing Scholarship
Brown, Nadia E., Christopher J. Clark, Anna M. Mahoney, Periloux Peay, and Michael G. Strawbridge. 2024. “Kamala isn’t Joe. She’s also not Barack, Hillary, or Shirley.” https://goodauthority.org/news/kamala-isnt-joe-shes-also-not-barack-hillary-or-shirley/
Raj A, Johns NE, Closson K, Mahoney A, Yore J, Kully G, LaVeist T, Theall K. “Louisiana Violence
Experiences Survey (LaVEX) 2023.” August 2023. Newcomb Institute, Tulane University and
Center on Gender Equity and Health, University of California San Diego.
Brown, Nadia, Christopher J. Clark, and Anna Mahoney. “Happy 50th Anniversary, Women’s Legislative
Caucuses! Here’s How to be Even More Effective,” in Washington Post. Washington D.C. February
10, 2022.
Mahoney, Anna. “Community Engagement and State Legislative Research,” in The Legislative Scholar. Fall
2020.
Shaffer, Carly and Anna Mahoney. “Women on the VP Short List are Qualified to Serve Today or
Tomorrow,” in Election Watch Center for American Women and Politics. August 8, 2020.
Mahoney, Anna. “Now is Time to Boost Paid Family Leave, and These Louisiana Representatives Can
Help.” in The Advocate. New Orleans, LA. December 2, 2018.
Mahoney, Anna. “Record Numbers of Women in State Legislatures: Caucuses will Help Them Get Work
Done,” in The Gender Policy Report, Center on Women, Gender and Public Policy at the University
of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. November 15, 2018.
Mahoney, Anna. “The Continued Importance of the ‘Bros Caucus’ Underscores the Need for More Women’s
Caucuses,” in LSE US Centre. August, 2018.
Mahoney, Anna. “Creating Women’s Caucuses in State Legislatures,” in Scholars Strategy Network: Key
Findings. March, 2017.
Mahoney, Anna. “One More Time,” in Footnotes: A Blog of the Center for American Women and Politics.
August 16, 2016.
Administration
Rockefeller Center for Public Policy, Dartmouth College
Executive Director, August 2023-present
Newcomb Institute, Tulane University
Interim Director of the College in Prison Program, January 2023-June 2023
Recruiting and supporting faculty in virtual and in person instruction, managing relationship between
Tulane University School for Professional Advancement, community partner Operation Restoration,
and Louisiana Department of Corrections officials, determining course offerings to fulfill degree
requirements, and managing shared teaching assistant.
Director of Research, August 2016-2023
Coordinating and disseminating public research reports produced by faculty, convening community
advocates and policymakers for policy forums, and integrating undergraduate research assistants to
support this work.
Administrative Associate Professor of Women’s Political Leadership, July 2021-2023
Administrative Assistant Professor of Women’s Political Leadership, August 2014-2021
Teaching service learning courses pertaining to women and politics, conducting scholarly research on
women and electoral politics, supporting community leadership programming, and advising the
Women and Politics student group.
Developing and managing leadership training programs for undergraduate women including, NEW
Leadership, a Center for American Women and Politics training program, and Elect Her, a Running
Start program to encourage undergraduate women to run for student government, and conducting
partnership with LSU on an oral history database featuring elected women of Louisiana.
Rutgers University
Douglass Residential College
Director, Knowledge and Power and Voorhees Mentor Program, June 2013-May 2014
Supervised a 20-section course on gender and knowledge production including curriculum design,
event planning, and instructor and peer mentor training, management, and recruitment.
Director, International Studies Certificate Program, November 2009-May 2012
Advised undergraduate students as they selected courses to incorporate a global perspective into their
undergraduate experience.
Academic Engagement and Programming
Coordinator, New Student Programs, May 2012-May 2013
Served as program coordinator supporting programs that introduced undergraduate students to the
resources necessary to their success and satisfaction with Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
Faculty Mentor, First-year Interest Group Seminar, May 2011-May 2012
Served as major area consultant to peer instructors by advising on syllabus creation, course instruction,
and content.
Awards
United Way of Southeastern Louisiana
Volunteer of the Year, 2022
United Way of Southeastern Louisiana
Legislative Champion, 2021, 2022
Representation: A Journal of Representative Democracy:
Best Paper Prize with Mirya Holman, 2019
American Political Science Association:
Best journal article award for the State Politics and Policy Section with Mirya Holman, 2018
Tulane University:
Excellent Faculty Mentor, Tulane University Undergraduate Student Government, 2019
Mortar Board Award for Excellence in Non-Tenured Teaching, Tulane University, 2014
University of Alabama:
Arts and Sciences Outstanding Thesis Award Nomination, 2004
Grants and Fellowships
Tulane University:
The Murphy Institute’s 2022-23 Seed Grant Awards with Mirya Holman, Clare Daniel, and Julie
Hernandez, 2022
Center for Public Service Community Engaged Research Grant, Tulane University, 2018
Center for Public Service Course Development Grant, Tulane University, 2015
Carrie Chapman Catt Center at Iowa State
Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics, Honorable Mention, with Christopher J.
Clark and Nadia Brown, 2022
American Political Science Association
Growing Democracy Grant, with the POWER Coalition for Equity and Justice, 2021
Center for American Women and Politics, Rutger’s University
Center for American Women and Politics Research Grant, with Christopher J. Clark and Nadia
Brown, 2021
American University
Understanding Legislative Negotiation Grant with Christopher J. Clark and Nadia
Brown, 2019
American Association of University Women:
American Dissertation Fellowship, 2011-2012
Rutgers University:
Alternate, Jacob K. Javits Graduate Fellowship, 2006-2007
Harold and Reba Martin Government Fellowship, 2005-2007
Select Presentations
American Political Science Association
Understanding Legislative Negotiation. ““Collective Representation Negotiated by Black Women
Legislators” with Nadia Brown, Christopher Clark, and Michael Strawbridge. Virtual, September 2023.
Author Meets Critic Panelist: “Feminist Democratic Representation” and “Violence against Women in
Politics.” Virtual, September 2020.
“Defense as Representation: The Louisiana Black Caucus’ Fight for Fair Taxes,” with Eva Dils,
Washington, D.C., August 2019.
Panelist: Diversifying the “Gender & Politics” Curriculum and Connecting Theories to Action,”
Washington, D.C. August 2019.
“In Defense of Feminist Defense.” Boston, Massachusetts, September 2018.
“The Impact of Women’s Legislative Caucus Variation on Women’s Representation.” Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, September 2016.
Annual Women’s Studies Conference
“The Impact of Women’s Legislative Caucus Variation on Women’s Representation.” Texas Tech,
Lubbock, Texas, April 2017.
Beyond Left and Right: What is “Women’s Politics?”
“Bipartisan Collective Action among Women Legislators.” Decatur, Georgia, September 2016.
European Conference on Politics and Gender
“Promoting Political Ambition in an Experiential Classroom.” Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 2022.
“The Black Women of the US Congress: Learning from Descriptive Data,” with Nadia Brown and
Christopher J. Clark, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 2022.
“Let’s Talk About Sex Education Policy Entrepreneurs: Predicting Bill Sponsorship among U.S. State
Legislators,” with Clare Daniel, Mirya R. Holman, Andres Sandoval, and Chloe Schwanz, Amsterdam,
Netherlands, June 2019.
“Stop, Collaborate, and Listen: Women’s Collaboration in U.S. State Legislatures,” with Mirya R.
Holman, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2017.
“The Impact of Women’s Legislative Caucus Variation on Women’s Representation.” Uppsala Sweden,
June 2015.
Gender, Institutions and Change: Feminist Institutionalism after 10 years International Conference
“Just Amongst Us: Women’s Caucuses, Collaboration and Policy Making in US State Legislatures” with
Mirya R. Holman, Manchester, UK, April 2017.
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
“All Equal Pay Legislation is Not Equal: Policy Diffusion and the Economics of Gender,” with Emma
Shakeshaft and Brigham Walker, Washington, D.C., May 2019.
Southern Political Science Association
“Promoting Political Ambition in an Experiential Classroom.” St. Pete’s, Florida, January 2023.
“Collaboration for Success: Women’s Legislative Collaborative Work and Bill Success in State
Legislatures.” with Mirya R. Holman and Emma Hurler, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2018.
Panelist, “Preparing Young Women for Public Leadership.” New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2017.
Panelist, “Mentoring Women in Political Science: What Works?” San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 2016.
Moderator, “Why so few Women in the Louisiana Legislature?” New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2015.
State Politics and Policy Conference
“Collective Representation Negotiated by Black Women Legislators.” with Nadia Brown and
Christopher Clark, Pittsburgh, PA, 2023.
“The Promise and Challenge of State Legislative Caucus Data.” with Carly Shaffer, Tallahassee, Florida,
2022.
“Take (her) to the Limit: What Term Limits Can Tell Us about Women’s Successes in Political Office.”
with Mirya Holman, Tallahassee, Florida, 2022.
“Let’s Talk About Sex Education Policy Entrepreneurs: Predicting Bill Sponsorship among U.S. State
Legislators,” with Clare Daniel, Mirya R. Holman, Andres Sandoval, and Chloe Schwanz, College Park,
Maryland, May 2019.
“Caucus Typologies and Legislative Effectiveness in U.S. State Legislatures.” with Mirya R. Holman,
State College, Pennsylvania, June 2018.
Understanding Legislative Negotiation
“Collective Representation Negotiated by Black Women Legislators.” With Nadia Brown and
Christopher Clark. Virtual, October 2022.
“Bridges: How Black Women Coordinate the Lawmaking Efforts of Identity-Based Caucuses.” with
Nadia Brown, Chris Clark, and Michael Strawbridge. Virtual, April 2021.
Western Political Science Association
“Intersectional Advocacy, Coalitional Campaigns, and Bridge Building Activism: Political
Mobilization Among Women of Color,” panelist with Nadia Brown, Portland Oregon, March 2022.
Women in Legislative Studies
“Collective Representation Negotiated by Black Women Legislators.” With Nadia Brown and
Christopher Clark. Houston, Texas, October 2022.
Invited Talks
Parent Poll Press Conference, Louisiana Policy Institute for Children, February 14, 2023.
Eagleton Alumni Career Panel, Rutgers University, November 2022.
Establishing a Women’s Parliamentary Caucus, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA)
Parliamentary Academy, March 2022.
Tulane University School of Public Health, Maternal Child Health Epidemiology and Violence
Prevention Institute Seminar: Translating Research into Policy, 2022.
Legislative Internship Program, Trinity College, 2021.
Eagleton Fellows Legislative Policymaking class, Rutgers University, 2020, 2021, 2022.
National Conference of State Legislatures Women’s Network, 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment
webinar, 2020.
American Association of University Women Greater New Orleans Chapter meeting, 2019.
Women United’s Public Policy Luncheon, Southeastern Louisiana United Way, 2019.
College Democrats of Louisiana Inaugural Convention, 2019.
John Breaux Symposium, Manship School, Louisiana State University, 2019.
Southern Women in Public Service Leadership Conference, Stennis Center, 2019.
Governor’s Summit on Equal Pay, March 10, 2017.
Forum on Equal Pay. Women’s Leadership Council of the United Way, 2016.
Women’s Professional Council, “Louisiana Women and Politics 101”, 2015.
Louisiana Commission on Civic Education, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2015.
Ready to Run Candidate Training, Louisiana Legislative Women’s Caucus, Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
2015.
New Orleans Citizen Diplomacy Council, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2015.
Women in Government Leadership Program, Governing Institute, Amelia Island, Florida, 2014.
Women in Government Southern Regional Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2014.
Editorial Board Memberships
Legislative Studies Quarterly
Politics and Gender
State Politics and Policy Quarterly
Professional Associations
College Board’s College-Level Examination Program
CLEP American Government Test Development Committee, July 3, 2023-present
American Political Science Association
Secretary of the Women and Politics Research Section, September 2022-present
European Consortium for Political Research, Standing Group on Gender and Politics
Scholars Strategy Network
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Co-director New Orleans Chapter, Fall 2018-2023
Southern Political Science Association
International Leadership Association
Civic Associations
American Association of University Women
League of Women Voters
Women United of the United Way of Southeastern Louisiana; Women United Grants Committee Co-Chair
2017-2020, Women United Vice Chair, 2020-2022, Board of Trustees, 2022-present, Women United Chair,
2022-2023
Appointee to the Governor’s Women’s Policy and Research Commission, 2016-2023
Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN), Board member, 2018-2022, University Task Force member,
2017-2018, University Task Force co-chair, 2020-2022
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