Hinda Mandell

Contributor

Hinda Mandell is associate professor in the School of Communication at RIT in New York, and is a co-editor of Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election (University of Rochester Press, 2018); the author of Sex Scandals, Gender and Power in Contemporary American Politics (Praeger, 2017) and co-editor of Scandal in a Digital Age (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Her essays ranging from politics to parentings have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Boston Herald, Palm Beach Post, Politico, and in academic journals, including Women’s Studies in Communication, Visual Communication Quarterly, and Explorations in Media Ecology. She is currently co-curating the exhibit Crafting Democracy: Fiber Arts and Activism, which will open in August 2019 at the Central Branch of the Rochester Public Library, and she is editing an eponymous exhibition catalogue with collaborator Juilee Decker, associate professor in museum studies at RIT. Mandell’s website is omghinda.com, and she’s on Twitter: @hindamandell and @crochetactivism.