Aidan Smith
Director of the Newcomb Scholars Program | Tulane University
New Orleans, LA, UNITED STATES
Aidan Smith is an expert on the intersection of gender and politics as it pertains to the U.S. presidency.
Biography
Aidan Smith is the Director of the Newcomb Scholars Program and teaches its first year seminar, The History and Philosophy of Higher Education: The Role of College Women. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College and holds a master's degree in mass communication from the University of Florida. She completed her doctorate in American Studies at the University of Hawaii in 2013. She also coordinates Newcomb’s feminist film initiatives. Her first book, Gender, Heteronormativity, and the American Presidency, was published by Routledge in October 2017.
Key Responsibilities:
-Directs the Newcomb Scholars program.
-Teaches the Newcomb Scholars first-year seminar.
-Coordinates Newcomb Institute’s feminist film initiatives.
Areas of Expertise (6)
Abortion Rights
Feminism & Gender Studies
Feminine Leadership Archetypes
Presidency
Feminism American Politics Culture
Motherhood
Articles (1)
Cultivating a Civic Identity using a Feminist Cohort Model: An Analysis of Tulane’s Newcomb Scholars Program
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Aidan Smith
Analysis of the Newcomb Scholars program at Tulane University offers a case study in the development of civic identity through participation in a four-year curricular program with community engagement and service-learning grounded in feminist pedagogies and theories.