Meredith Conroy

Meredith Conroy is an assistant professor of political science at California State University, San Bernardino. She is also a Senior Researcher with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. Conroy earned her Ph.D. in political science from University of California, Santa Barbara. Conroy's research on the role of gender and media in politics has been published in academic journals such as The International Journal of Communication, and Politics, Groups, and Identities. She has also contributed chapters to multiple books, including Controlling the Message: New Media in American Political Campaigns (NYU Press, 2015) and Rethinking Madam President: Is America Ready for a Woman in the White House? (Lynne Rienner, 2008). Her first book, Masculinity, Media, and the American Presidency was published in September 2015. This book analyzes the ways that media discuss men in politics and how it contribute to the maintenance of masculinity as preferential in American politics. She has contibuted to the Washington Post poltiics blog, The Monkey Cage, and The London School of Economics American politics blog.