KAREN M. KEDROWSKI is professor and chair of the department of political science at Winthrop University. Her research and teaching areas include media and politics, women and politics, American politics, and public policy. She is the author of Media Entrepreneurs and the Media Enterprise in the US Congress and co-author of Cancer Activism: Gender, Media, and Public Policy. Her articles have appeared in Armed Forces and Society, Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, Political Communication, PS, and Teachers College Record.