Karen oconnor biography
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Award-winning producer Karen O'Connor has been working in television for over 20 years. In , she was named series editor at FRONTLINE and continued to work on FRONTLINE films, including The Killer at Thurston High(), a film she co-produced with colleague Miri Navasky, that explored the tragedy of a school shooting in Oregon. The film won the Banff award for best social/political documentary.
O'Connor left her staff position at FRONTLINE in to co-produce with Navasky at Mead Street Films. For over a decade, Navasky and O'Connor have defined themselves as filmmakers by their unique ability to take viewers into worlds that are seldom seen and to tell stories that are intimate, original and revealing. They have produced, directed and written a number of ground-breaking FRONTLINE documentaries, includingThe New Asylums (), a provocative and wrenching portrait of the hundreds of thousands of mentally ill people incarcerated in jails and prisons across the country. The film was nomi
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- J.D. State University of New York, Buffalo<br>Ph.D. State University of New York, Buffalo<br>B.A. State University of New York, College at Buffalo
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Karen O’Connor is the Jonathan N. Helfat Distinguished Professor of Political Science at American University, where she previously served as Chair of the Department of Government. She is an expert on American politics, the courts, women and politics, and interest group politics. Along with Larry J. Sabato, she is the author of the best-selling American Politics textbook in the U.S., now in preparation for its 14th edition. Named in – by the Irish Times as one of America’s top Irish lawyers (along with Ch
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Karen O'Connor (professor)
American political scientist
Karen Paula O'Connor (born February 15, ) is the Jonathan N. Helfat Distinguished Professor of Political Science and a Distinguished Professor of Government at American University in Washington, D.C., where she is also the Founder and Director Emerita of the Women & Politics Institute.
She served as chair of the Department of Government at American University from She also served as the editor of Women & Politics for 7 years and has been a member of its editorial board since beneath its new name, the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy.[1] She has also served on the editorial boards of numerous political science journals.
O'Connor earned her B.A. from State University College at Buffalo () and her J.D., and Ph. D. degrees from SUNY-Buffalo where she was the Baldy Fellow in Law and Social Policy. She taught at Emory University from until moving to American University in where she served as chair o