Faculty/Staff

Benjamin Dworkin
Adjunct Faculty

Dworkin serves as the director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics and adjunct associate professor of political science at Rider University. In this role, he is responsible for all of the Institute’s programming.  He is a graduate of Princeton University and the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, where he is now pursuing his PhD. Dworkin was previously the chief executive of Dworkin Strategic Communications, LLC, and its predecessor companies. As such, he had primary responsibility for the writing, editing, designing, printing and mailing of all client newsletters and magazines. He was also a vice president at Robinson Lerer & Montgomery, a leading New York-based corporate public relations firm. His primary focuses were media relations, strategic communications development, and crisis management. 

Prior to his work in New York, Dworkin was deputy research director for the New Jersey Assembly Democratic office in Trenton. He helped oversee a staff of several other policy analysts and developed expertise in insurance, law, health care, public safety and veterans' issues. In this position, he wrote and edited legislation, policy analyses, floor speeches, talking points for use in debates and media interviews, as well as overall strategy. Dworkin has also worked as legislative aide to the late state Senator Matthew Feldman (D-Teaneck), chairman of the Senate higher education committee.

An award-winning journalist for his work with the New Jersey Jewish Standard, New Jersey's oldest Anglo-Jewish newspaper, Dworkin has also been published in local newspapers throughout the state and is recognized as a leading political observer and freelance film critic. Miramax featured Dworkin on the DVD of the Oscar-winning film, "Life is Beautiful." Dworkin assists with the undergraduate political campaigning course at Eagleton with Michael DuHaime and Maggie Moran.