Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy/Director of the Master of Public Policy Program
Year Joined RCNJ: 2023
Contact Information
- Phone: 201-684-6264
- Email: ksidorsk@ramapo.edu
- Office: G205
- Office Hours: M 10:00-11:00 am, 1:00-2:00 pm; R 1:00-2:00 pm
Education:
- B.A., Bryant University
- M.A. and Ph.D., Brown University
Courses Offered:
- American Government
- Public Policy
- State and Local Government
- Women and Politics
Teaching Interests:
- American Government
- Gender and Politics
- Public Policy
- State Government
Research Interests:
- Women in elected and appointed office
- Political Ambition
- Domestic Violence Policy
Scholarly Activity:
- Sidorsky, Kaitlin N. and Kelly B. Smith (Stetson University). 2024. Hamiltonia: A State and Local Government Simulation.Ǵdzܰ.
- Sidorsky, Kaitlin N. and Wendy J. Schiller (Brown University). 2023. “Obstacles to Federal Policy Adoption: The Case of Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdictions in Native American Tribal Nations” Perspectives on Politics.
- Sidorsky, Kaitlin N. and Wendy J. Schiller (Brown University). 2023. Inequality Across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States. Cambridge University Press.
- Schiller, Wendy J. (Brown University) and Kaitlin N. Sidorsky. 2022. “Federalism, Policy Diffusion, and Gender Equality: Explaining Variation in Domestic Violence Firearm Laws 1990-2017.” State Politics & Policy Quarterly, 1-23. DOI:
- Sidorsky, Kaitlin N. and Wendy J. Schiller (Brown University). 2020. “Litigating Lives and Gender Inequality: Public Defenders, Policy Implementation, and Domestic Violence Sentencing.” Journal of Women, Politics, & Policy. Vol. 41 (3): 320-333.
- Sidorsky, Kaitlin N. 2019. All Roads Lead to Power: Appointed and Elected Paths to Public Office for US Women. University Press of Kansas.
- Sidorsky, Kaitlin N. 2015. “Moving on Up? The Gendered Ambitions of State-Level Appointed Officials.” Political Research Quarterly, Volume 68, Issue 4, Pgs. 802-815.
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