Former Hillsborough Committeman Takes New Job at University of Delaware

Hillsborough, NJ -- Former Hillsborough Township Committeeman David Redlawsk is in a new, but familiar position in Delaware.

Redlawsk, 57, is the new chair of the University of Delaware's Department of Political Science and International Relations, njbiz.com reports.

Redlawsk has spent the last seven years as the Director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling and Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University.

He is succeeded in that position by Morristown resident Ashley Koning, the former assistant director of the Center for Public Interest Polling, according to centraljersey.com. She has been named the interim director.

Redlawsk won his own election in 1995, and was twice elected to serve on Hillsborough Committee, according to the report.

He and his family were longtime residents of Hillsborough before he accepted an academic position at the University of Iowa in 1999.

He accepted the job at Rutgers University in 2009, and moved to East Brunswick.

He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. from Rutgers University. He also holds an M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University and a B.A. from Duke University.

Koning earned her bachelor’s degree from Franklin and Marshall College, and her master’s degree at Columbia University, according to njbiz.com.

Her research includes a focus on campaigns and elections, political participation, public opinion, behavior, social identities, and group consciousness and how each of these topics intersect with gender, according to Rutgers University.

The attached image of David Redlawsk is a file photo