Ruth B. Mandel Endowed Legacy Fund at the Center for American Women and Politics

The late Professor Ruth B. Mandel, who escaped the Holocaust with her family and dedicated her life to promoting women’s rights, human rights, democracy, and civic engagement, co-founded the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at the Eagleton Institute of Politics in 1971 and served as the Center’s director until 1994. To honor her memory, her family established an endowed Legacy Fund at CAWP to provide grants to graduate students working on dissertations in the field of women and American politics.