Robin Kolodny was born and raised in Miami, Florida and received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at Florida International University in Miami in 1985.
She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Johns Hopkins University in 1992.
She is Professor of Political Science at Temple University, where she has taught since 1991. Kolodny was selected to serve as an APSA (American Political Science Association) Congressional Fellow in 1995 when she worked in the office of Congresswoman Nancy L. Johnson of Connecticut. In 1999, she received the Emerging Scholar Award from the Political Organizations and Parties Section of APSA.
During academic year 2008-09, Kolodny was named a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar to the United Kingdom, affiliated with the Department of Politics at the University of Sussex and the Sussex European Institute (SEI).
Her new book with Diana Dwyre was released by the University of Michigan Press on July 23, 2024. The Fundamentals of Campaign Finance: Why We Have The System We Have is available as an open access title on Fulcrum: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/k3569749k
You can order a Kindle edition for free from Amazon here.
Her first book is Pursuing Majorities: Congressional Campaign Committees in American Politics (University of Oklahoma Press, 1998).
In 2011, Kolodny won the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, a university-wide award given by Temple University and the Lindback Foundation. In 2017, she won the Great Teacher Award at Temple University. You can find her name engraved in Founders’ Garden. She was Chair of the Department of Political Science at Temple from 2016 to 2022.
Kolodny is most proud of the incredible students she has had the pleasure to teach (and sometimes mentor) for over three decades. There is literally nothing else she’d rather talk about. If you were a student of hers, please connect on LinkedIn.
You can find my CV here: https://1drv.ms/b/s!Ang_LXaUrkd64SfNSChd8Kr7E1T3?e=wqtuRV