Dr. Karen Kedrowski has been a member of the faculty since 1994, and department chair since 2001.   She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Carl Albert Congressional Studies Center at the University of Oklahoma in 1992, and her BA in Political Science, French and History from the University of Minnesota in 1986. She conducts research primarily in the fields of congressional communication and public policy. Her interest in health policy specifically stems from her two years as a Health Policy Analyst for Families USA in Washington, DC. 

Dr. Kedrowski advises Political Science students who wish to earn Secondary Education Certification.  Dr. Kedrowski is also the faculty advisor for the College Democrats and she was the driving force in re-establishing Winthrop University's chapter of Pi Gamma Mu, the international Social Science Honors Society, in 2005. 

Dr. Kedrowski has received a number of honors and awards, including being named Winthrop University's Outstanding Junior Professor (1999) and the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Advisor (2007).

• Breastfeeding Rights in the United States, with Michael E. Lipscomb. Praeger Publishers, 2008.
   

• Cancer Activism: Gender, Media and Public Policy, with Marilyn Stine Sarow. University of Illinois Press, 2007.
   

• Media Entrepreneurs and the Media Enterprise in the U.S. Congress., Hampton Press. 1996.
   

• Smith, Stephen Samuel, Karen M. Kedrowski, Joseph Ellis and Judy Longshaw. 2006 (electronic) 2008 (paper). “’Your Father Works for My Father:’ Race, Class, and the Politics of Voluntarily Mandated Desegregation.” Teachers’ College Record.
   

• "Electoral Structures, Venue Selection and the (New?) Politics of School Desegregation.", with Stephen Samuel Smith and Joseph Ellis. Perspectives on Politics 2004.