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Cindy Simon Rosenthal Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CAC_PP_20181
Contains material created by the donor during her service as Mayor and City Councilor of Norman, Oklahoma and material created by the donor during her work as professor, Associate Director and Director of the Carl Albert Center at the University of Oklahoma.

Dates

  • 1954-2018
  • Majority of material found in 1995-2018

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is closed pending the lifting of the embargo imposed by the donor.

Extent

23 Boxes : 22 cubic foot boxes and 1 document case.

Biographical / Historical

Cindy Simon Rosenthal was the Director and Curator of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at The University of Oklahoma (2005-2018) and Professor of Political Science with a joint appointment to the Women’s Studies faculty. Professor Rosenthal has been a member of the Center faculty since 1998 and initially served as Associate Director (2001-2005), overseeing the Center’s undergraduate programs. Under her leadership, the Center developed its highly successful N.E.W. (National Education for Women’s) Leadership, a program to educate, inspire, and empower undergraduate women to enter public service and politics. N.E.W. Leadership and the Center's companion programs under the umbrella of the Women's Leadership Initiative have been honored each year by Oklahoma’s Journal-Record “Woman of the Year” celebration as a program “making a difference.”

Professor Rosenthal’s research and teaching interests focus on women in politics, public sector and legislative leadership, state-local government and intergovernmental relations, and public policy issues involving gender inequality. She is co-author (with Ronald M. Peters, Jr.) of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the New American Politics (Oxford University Press, 2010). She edited Women Transforming Congress (University of Oklahoma Press, 2002) and is the author of When Women Lead (Oxford University Press, 1998). In 1996, the Women and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association recognized her dissertation on institutional constraints and leadership styles of men and women in state legislatures as the best in the field of women in politics. Her work has also been recognized with the Sophonisba Breckinridge Award given for the best paper on women and politics at the Midwest Political Science Association meeting. She contributed chapters to The Oklahoma Almanac of Politics (1998, 1999), Women and Elective Office (1998, 2005), Women in Higher Education: Empowering Change (2002), Women and Elective Office (2005), Voices from the Heartland (2007), Legislative Women: Getting Elected, Getting Ahead (2008), and The Handbook on Gender and Women’s Leadership (2009). Her work also has appeared in Political Research Quarterly, Politics and Gender, PS: Political Science and Politics, Social Science Quarterly, Policy Studies Journal, Legislative Studies Quarterly, State & Local Government Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and Women & Politics.

Among her awards and honors, Professor Rosenthal was named the Carlisle Mabrey and Lurleen Mabrey Presidential Professor, 2002–2007, and was named Outstanding Oklahoma Political Scientist of the Year in 2000 by the Oklahoma Political Science Association. In 2009, she received the Distinguished Public Service Award from the Oklahoma Chapter, American Society of Public Administration. In 2010 she was named “Woman of the Year” by The Journal Record. She also received the Ursa Major Distinguished Alumnae Award from the Alpha Phi International Fraternity in 2010. She is a 2016 recipient of the Kate Barnard Award given by the Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women to honor outstanding elected and appointed women officials in public service in Oklahoma. She also received the 2016 Don Rider Award from the Oklahoma Municipal League for outstanding contributions on behalf of municipal government in the state of Oklahoma.

Professor Rosenthal holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University, a master’s in urban studies from Occidental College, and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Oklahoma. From 1975 until 1991, she worked extensively with state legislatures – first with Legis 50/ The Center for Legislative Improvement, later at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), and then finally as a consultant with several states on various management, personnel, and training projects. She was on the NCSL senior management team and oversaw legislative management programs, state information services, and publications.

Professor Rosenthal was elected three times as mayor, serving from 2007 to 2016, making her the second-longest serving mayor in the history of Norman, Oklahoma. She served three years on the City Council before being elected mayor.

Arrangement

Arrangement should be made after the donor (Rosenthal) uses her collection for writing her book. Contents suggest the creation of two series-- one series will focus on her work with the City of Norman while the other will focus on her work for the Carl Albert Center.
Title
Guide to the Cindy Simon Rosenthal Papers

Repository Details

Part of the Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections Repository

Contact:
630 Parrington Oval
Room 202B
Norman Oklahoma 73109 United States