Special Events

R03 - 2025 CPSA Keynote: Reflections on the Rural vs. Urban Divide in the United States

Date: Jun 3 | Time: 12:00pm to 01:30pm | Location:

In this talk, Cramer will share what she learned about rural resentment toward urban areas in fieldwork in Wisconsin. She’ll reflect on the relationship of these sentiments to those in Canada, and how the rural vs. urban divide in the United States is one manifestation of a broader split in responses to social change, which she and Larry Bartels explain in a forthcoming book. She will also reflect on the role that higher education plays in these contemporary divides.

Katherine Cramer is the Natalie C. Holton Chair of Letters & Science and Virginia Sapiro Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is known for her innovative approach to the study of political behavior, in which she listens to people to understand the way they think and act about politics. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters.

Participants:
Katherine Cramer (Natalie C. Holton Chair of Letters & Science Virginia Sapiro Professor of Political Science University of Wisconsin-Madison)