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Dianne Bystrom
Director, Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics
dbystrom@iastate.edu
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Dr. Dianne Bystrom, the director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State University, has personal and professional experience in covering, working in, and studying political campaigns. She earned a B.A. in Journalism in 1975 from Kearney (NE) State College and an M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication in 1982 and a Ph.D. in Communication in 1995 from the University of Oklahoma. Her current research interests focus on (1) the styles and strategies used by women and men political candidates in their television advertising and speeches and (2) the coverage of women candidates and political leaders by the media. She is a frequent commentator about political and women's issues for state and national media.

Dr. Bystrom is co-editor and contributing author to two books-The Electronic Election: Perspectives on the 1996 Campaign Communication (1999) and The Lynching of Language: Gender, Politics, and Power in the Hill-Thomas Hearings (1996). She has recent journal articles on the media coverage of female and male U.S. Senate and gubernatorial candidates in the 2000 primaries and general election; chapters in two recent books on women in Congress and electing the first woman president; an entry on women and politics in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of the Midwest; and chapters in three forthcoming books on the 2000 election, civic engagement and political communication. Bystrom has a contract to co-author a book on women's political communication to be published in 2004. She currently serves as vice chair of the Political Communication Division of the National Communication Association and will chair the division in 2003-04.

In addition to directing the Center, Dr. Bystrom teaches courses in Political Science, Women's Studies, Journalism and Mass Communication, and the Honors Program as an adjunct assistant professor of political science. Before joining Iowa State in July 1996, she worked for 17 years at the University of Oklahoma in public relations, higher education administration and political communication.