When FLOTUS Travels: The Politics of Wandering: MaryAnne Borrelli at TEDxConnecticutCollege 2014

MaryAnne Borrelli is a Professor of Government and is a fellow with the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment and the Joy Shechtman Mankoff Center for Teaching & Learning. She has participated as a professional consultant in the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia; and in the Presidential Transition Project, which advised the transition teams of George W. Bush. She has received numerous fellowships and grants, awarded by such organizations as the Scowcroft Institute (2011), the Herbert Hoover Foundation (2005-06) and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation (2004). Borrelli is the author of two books, The Politics of the President's Wife (2011), The President's Cabinet: Gender, Power and Representation (2002).

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