Leslie G. Rude was an outstanding Hartwick College faculty member and administrator. Following his death in 1998, Professor Emerita Norma Hutman and Marion Rude established the Leslie G. Rude Memorial Lecture Series to reflect his passionate interest in political science and public speaking, and his commitment to public life.
2020 Leslie G. Rude Memorial Lecture: January 14, at 7:00 p.m. in Shineman Celebration Room
Guest Lecturer: Caitlin (Dwyer) Jewitt ’06, PhD presented Primary Rules and the 2020 Presidential Nomination
Caitlin (Dwyer) Jewitt ’06, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on presidential nominations, and her recent book The Primary Rules: Parties, Voters, and Presidential Nominations explores the extent to which voters have a meaningful say in the outcome of the presidential nominations and the role that the political parties play in the process. She became interested in the presidential nomination system during a Hartwick College J Term when she spent a month in New Hampshire leading up to the first-in-the nation primary and then observed the different processes in other states.
Past lectures include:
For more information, please contact: Timothy Raimy ’17 at 607-431-4044, raimyt@hartwick.edu.
