Morristown Resident Named Interim Director of Rutgers University's Polling Center

Morristown, NJ -- A Morristown woman who has been serving as the assistant director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling is now the institute’s interim director.

Ashley Koning succeeds David Redlawsk, who is the new chair of the University of Delaware's Department of Political Science and International Relations, njbiz.com reports.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The attached image of Ashley Koning was posted on Rutgers University's website.