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CURRICULUM VITAE
ANN SHOLA ORLOFF
Department of Sociology Northwestern University
1810 Chicago Avenue, Evanston 60208 USA
1-847-491-3719; e-mail: [email protected]; fax: 1-847-491-9907
EDUCATION____________________________________________________________________________
Ph.D.
Princeton University, 1985
M.A.
Princeton University, 1983
A.B.
Harvard University, 1975
POSITIONS HELD________________________________________________________________________
2012-present
Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition Chair
1998-present
Professor, Department of Sociology (and, by courtesy) Department of Political Science, Northwestern
University; Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Policy Research; Faculty Affiliate, Buffett Institute for Global
Studies
2008-2011
Director, Gender Studies Program
2003-2004
Chair, Department of Sociology
1985-1998:
Assistant to Full Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison;
Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty and Women’s Studies Program
FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS AND AWARDS_________________________________________________________
2014-15
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, Stanford,
California
2013
Visiting Scholar, Department of Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute, Florence,
Italy
2011
Visiting Professor, Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm, Sweden
2009-10
President, Social Science History Association
2009
Visiting Professor, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2006-07
Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY
2004-07
Member of ASA Council (elected), American Sociological Association
2006
Visiting Professor, Institut d’Etudes Politique de Paris (Sciences Po)
2005
“Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship,” American Sociological Review 58(1993):303-28,
featured in “ASR’s Greatest Hits” (one of five most-cited articles of the 1990s)
2005
“Authors-meet-critics” panels on Remaking Modernity, American Sociological Association and Social
Science History Association
2004
Society for Comparative Research, appointed member
2003
Social Politics #1 in “Impact Factor” among women’s studies journals ranked by ISI Web of Science
Journal Citation Reports for 2002
2002, 2005
Visiting Professor, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute
Florence, Italy
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Fellowships, Honors and Awards (continued):
1998-2002
National Fellow, Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University
1998-1999
Jean Monnet Fellow, European Forum on “Recasting the Welfare State?” Robert Schuman Centre,
European University Institute, Florence, Italy
1998
Vilas Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1998
Visiting Fellowship, Sociology Program, Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National
University, Canberra, and Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies, North Australia Research
Unit, Australian National University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
1997
Visiting Researcher, Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
1996
Visiting Fellowship, Program on “Reshaping Australian Institutions: The Welfare State,” Research
School of the Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia
1995
Social Politics (founder, co-editor) named one of “10 Best New Journals of 1994,” Library Journal
1995
Political Sociology Section Best Book Award, Honorable Mention, 1995
(for The Politics of Pensions: A Comparative Analysis of Britain, Canada and the United States)
1994
Political Sociology Section Best Article Award, Honorable Mention, 1994
(for "Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship." American Sociological Review 58(1993):303-28)
1993
German Marshall Fund Research Fellowship
1993
Visiting Fellowship, Department of Sociology and Political Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
1988-89
American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid
1986
American Sociological Association Theory Section Prize for Best Article
(for "`Why Not Equal Protection?'..." American Sociological Review 49(1984):726-750)
1984-85
American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship
1980-84
Princeton University Graduate School Fellowship
PUBLICATIONS__________________________________________________________________________
Books:
2017
The Many Hands of the State: Theorizing Political Authority and Social Control, edited by Kimberly
Morgan and Ann Orloff. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2005
Remaking Modernity: Politics, History and Sociology, edited by Julia Adams, Elisabeth
Clemens, and Ann Shola Orloff. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
1999
States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain,
and the United States (with Julia O'Connor and Sheila Shaver). New York, Cambridge, and
Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
1993
The Politics of Pensions: A Comparative Analysis of Britain, Canada and the United States,
1880s-1940. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
1988
The Politics of Social Policy in the United States, edited by Margaret Weir, Ann Orloff, and Theda
Skocpol. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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Special issues of journals edited:
2016
“Perverse Politics? Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity,” (with Raka Ray and Evren Savci), a
special issue of Political Power and Social Theory 30(2016).
2009
“The Power of Gender Perspectives: Feminist Influence on Policy Paradigms, Social Science and
Social Politics,” edited by Ann Orloff and Bruno Palier, a special issue of Social Politics 16: 405-581.
2005
“Gender, Class and Capitalism,” edited by Leslie McCall and Ann Orloff, a special issue of Social
Politics, v.12, no.2
1998
“Feminism, Comparison and Historical Social Science,” edited by Ann Orloff, a special issue of Social
Politics, v.5. no.1
Articles and Book Chapters Published or in Press:
2017
“Introduction: The Many Hands of the State” (with Kimberly Morgan), in The Many Hands of the State:
Theorizing Political Authority and Social Control, edited by Kimberly Morgan and Ann Orloff (New York:
Cambridge University Press).
2017
“Gendered States Made and Remade,” chapter in The Many Hands of the State: Theorizing Political
Authority and Social Control, edited by Kimberly Morgan and Ann Orloff (New York: Cambridge
University Press).
2016
“Perverse Politics? Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity,” (with Raka Ray and Evren Savci),
introduction to special issue of Political Power and Social Theory 30(2016):1-17.
2016
“The Critics of Feminisms in Power: Rethinking Gender Equality after the Second Wave,” by Ann Orloff
and Talia Shiff, Political Power and Social Theory 30(2016):109-134.
2015
“Feminists in Power: Rethinking Gender Equality After the Second Wave,” in Emerging Trends In The
Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Robert Kosslyn and Robert Scott (John Wiley & Sons,
online)
2015
"Gender and the Transformation of Welfare States,” English and German versions to appear in
Protestant Ethics and the Modern Welfare State: Late effects of the Reformation, edited by Prof. Dr.
Gerhard Wegner (Leipzig, Germany: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt [Protestant Publishing House]).
2012
“Rethinking Power and Politics,” Social Science History 36(2012):1-21.
2011
“Policy, Politics, Gender: Bringing Gender to the Analysis of Welfare States,” in the Symposium,
“Gender and Welfare State. A Feminist Debate,” Sociologica
(http://www.sociologica.mulino.it/journal/article/index/Article/Journal:ARTICLE:462/Item/Journal:ARTIC
LE:462)
2010
“Gender,” pp.252-264 in the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Welfare States, edited by Stephan
Liebfried et al. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
2009
“The Power of Gender Perspectives: Feminist Influence on Policy Paradigms, Social Science, and
Social Politics,” by Ann Shola Orloff and Bruno Palier, Social Politics 16:405-412.
2009
“Gendering the Comparative Analysis of Welfare States: An Unfinished Agenda,” Sociological Theory
27(2009):317-343.
2009
“Should Feminists Aim for Gender Symmetry?: Why the Dual-Earner/Dual-Carer Model May Not Be
Every Feminist’s Utopia,” pp.129-160 in Institutions for Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions
of Labor, edited by Janet Gornick and Marcia Meyers. New York: Verso.
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Articles Published or in Press (continued):
2008
“Solidarity in Question: Gender, Nation and European Social Provision,” review essay in SocioEconomic Review 6:187-192.
2006
“From Maternalism to ‘Employment for All’: State Policies to Promote Women’s Employment Across
the Affluent Democracies,” pp.230-68 in The State After Statism: New State Activities in the Era of
Globalization and Liberalization, edited by Jonah Levy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
2006
“’Time and Tide…’ Rejoinder to Abbott, Charrad, Goldstone, Mahoney, Riley, Roy, Sewell, Wingrove
and Zerilli,” (Special issue Symposium on Remaking Modernity) International Journal of Comparative
Sociology 47(5):419-31.
2006
“Supporting Social Reproduction in the US: Shifting Claims from Caregiving to Employment," in The
Gender of Politics: Reproduction Policies in Austria, Finland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, and the US,
edited by Maria Mesner and Gudrun Wolfgruber. Vienna: Studienverlag 2006
2005
“Defending Modernity? High Politics, Feminist Anti-Modernism, and the Place of Gender” (by Julia
Adams and Ann Shola Orloff), Politics & Gender 1(1):166-182. (Subject of a special forum: “Modernity
and Modernization Revisited,” in Politics & Gender 1(3):481-508.)
2005
“Once More into the Breach with Modernity: Rejoinder to Inglehart and Norris, and Young” (by Julia
Adams and Ann Shola Orloff), Politics & Gender 1(3):500-508
2005
“Gender, Class and Capitalism” (by Leslie McCall and Ann Orloff), Social Politics 12:159-69.
2005
“Social Theory, Modernity, and the Three Waves of Historical Sociology” (by Julia Adams, Elisabeth
Clemens and Ann Shola Orloff), pp.1-72 in Remaking Modernity: Politics, History and Sociology, edited
by Julia Adams, Elisabeth Clemens, and Ann Shola Orloff. Durham: Duke University Press.
2005
“Social Provision and Regulation: Theories of States, Social Policies and Modernity,” pp.190-224 in
Remaking Modernity: Politics, History and Sociology, edited by Julia Adams, Elisabeth Clemens, and
Ann Shola Orloff. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
2003
“Markets Not States? The Weakness of State Social Provision for Breadwinning Men in the U.S,”
pp.217-45 in Families of a New World, edited by Lynne Haney and Lisa Pollard. New York: Routledge.
2002
“Explaining US welfare reform: Power, gender, race and the US policy legacy,” Critical Social Policy
22:97-119.
2002
“Citizens, Workers or Fathers? Men in the History of U.S. Social Policy” (with Renee Monson) pp.6191 in Making Men into Fathers, edited by Barbara Hobson. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Italian translation appears in Qualita/Equita, September/October1998.
2002
“Women’s Employment and Welfare Regimes: Europe and North America,” UNRISD Programme
Paper, available online:
http://www.unrisd.org/unrisd/website/document.nsf/(httpPublications)/58EC1361F09195F7C1256C080
044FC77?OpenDocument
2001
“Equality, Employment, and State Social Policies: A Gendered Perspective,” pp.61-74 in What Future
for Social Security? Debates and Reforms in National and Cross-National Perspective, edited by
Jochen Clasen. Boston: Kluwer.
2001
“Ending the Entitlements of Poor Single Mothers: Changing Social Policies, Women’s Employment
Caregiving,” pp.133-59 in Women and Welfare: Theory and Practice in the United States and Europe,
edited by Nancy Hirschmann and Ulrike Liebert. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Italian translation appears L'Assistenza Sociale, December 1999.
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Articles Published or in Press (continued):
1999
"Motherhood, Work and Welfare: Gender Ideologies and State Social Provision in Australia, Britain,
Canada and the United States," pp.291-320 in State/Culture, edited by George Steinmetz. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press.
1998
"Gender and Social Rights," pp.239-64 in Public Rights, Public Rules: Constituting Citizens in the
World Polity and National Policy, edited by Connie McNeely. New York: Garland Press.
1998
"The Welfare State," in The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History, edited by Wilma Mankiller,
Gwendolyn Mink, Marysa Navarro, Barbara Smith and Gloria Steinem. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
1997
“On Jane Lewis’s Male Breadwinner Regime Typology,” Social Politics 4:188-202.
1997
“The Gender Politics of Citizenship: A Comment on Louise Tilly’s `Women, Citizenship and Power,”
International Labor and Working-Class History #52.
1996
"Gender in the Welfare State,” Annual Review of Sociology 22:51-78.
Reprinted in Welfare States: Construction, Deconstruction, Reconstruction, 3 vols., edited by Stephan
Liebfried and Steffen Mau. Cheltenham, UK, and Northamption VA: Edward Elgar, 2008.
Reprinted in Women, Gender, and Politics: A Reader, edited by Mona Lena Krook and Sarah Childs.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
1996
"Gendering the Analysis of Welfare States," pp.81-100 in Gender, Politics, and Citizenship in the
1990s, edited by Barbara Sullivan and Gillian Whitehouse. Sydney, Australia: University of New
South Wales Press.
1993
"Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship: The Comparative Analysis of Gender Relations and
Welfare States," American Sociological Review 58:303-28 (featured in “ASR’s Greatest Hits,” one of
five most-cited articles of the 1990s).
German translation appears in Mutter, Ehefrau, Erwerbstatige: Sozialpolitik also Geschlechterpolitik im
internationalen Vergleich, edited by Ilona Ostner. Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 1996.
Reprinted in Robert Goodin and Deborah Mitchell, eds., The Foundations of the Welfare State,
London: Edward Elgar, 2000.
Reprinted in Joni Lovenduski, ed., Feminism and Politics, The International Library of Politics and
Comparative Government. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 1999.
Reprinted in Income Maintenance Policy, edited by Michael Hill, London: Edward Elgar, 2001.
1993
"The Role of State Formation and State Building in Social Policy Developments: The Politics of
Pensions in Britain, the United States and Canada, 1880s-1930s," Political Power and Social Theory
8:3-44.
1991
"Gender in Early U.S. Social Policy" Journal of Policy History 3:249-81.
1991
"Cross-Class Alliances, State-Building and Social Policy: Canadian Policymaking for Old Age
Protection, 1890s-1920s, in Comparative Perspective" Research in Political Sociology 5:235-75.
1991
"The Future of Social Provision in the United States," pp.47-63 in Policy Choices: Political Choices in
Canada and the United States, edited by Keith Banting, Michael Hawes, Richard Simeon, and Elaine
Willis. Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University School of Policy Studies.
1990
"Business and Social Policy in Canada and the United States, 1920-1940" (by Ann Orloff and Eric
Parker) Comparative Social Research 12:291-335.
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Articles Published or in Press (continued):
1988
"The Political Origins of America's Belated Welfare State," in The Politics of Social Policy in the United
States, edited by Margaret Weir, Ann Shola Orloff and Theda Skocpol. Princeton: Princeton
University Press.
1988
"Understanding American Social Politics" (by Margaret Weir, Ann Orloff and Theda Skocpol), in The
Politics of Social Policy in the United States, edited by Margaret Weir, Ann Shola Orloff and Theda
Skocpol. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Reprinted in Robert Goodin and Deborah Mitchell, eds., The Foundations of the Welfare State,
London: Edward Elgar, 2000.
1988
"The Future of Social Policy in the United States: Political Constraints and Possibilities" (by Margaret
Weir, Ann Orloff and Theda Skocpol), in The Politics of Social Policy in the United States, edited by
Margaret Weir, Ann Shola Orloff and Theda Skocpol. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
1986
"Explaining the Origins of Welfare States: Britain and the United States, 1880s-1920s" (by Theda
Skocpol and Ann Orloff), pp. 229-254 in Approaches to Social Theory, ed. by S. Lindenberg, James
Coleman and S. Nowak. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
1984
"`Why Not Equal Protection?': Explaining the Politics of Public Social Spending in Britain, 1900-1911
and the United States, 1880s-1920" (by Ann Orloff and Theda Skocpol) American Sociological Review
49:726-750.
Reprinted in Britain and America: Studies in Comparative History, 1760 to 1970, edited by Robert
Baldock. London: Yale University Press, 1998.
Reprinted in Welfare States: Construction, Deconstruction, Reconstruction, 3 vols., edited by Stephan
Liebfried and Steffen Mau. Cheltenham, UK, and Northamption VA: Edward Elgar, 2008.
Book Reviews Published or in Press:
2008
“Solidarity in Question: Gender, Nation and European Social Provision,” review of The Boundaries of
Welfare: European Integration and the New Spatial Politics of Social Protection, by Maurizio Ferrera.
Review essay in Socio-Economic Review 6:187-192.
2001
Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies, by Gosta Esping-Andersen. American Journal of
Sociology 106:1178-80.
1997
Good Enough Mothering? Feminist Perspectives on Lone Motherhood, edited by Elizabeth Bortolaia
Silva. Journal of Social Policy 26:296-99.
1995
Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State, Britain and France, 1914-1945, by
Susan Pedersen. American Journal of Sociology 101:246-49.
1993
States, Labor Markets, and the Future of Old-Age Policy, edited by John Myles and Jill Quadagno.
Contemporary Sociology 22:786-87.
1993
Social Change, Social Welfare and Social Science, by Peter Taylor-Gooby.
Sociology 98:1167-68.
1992
The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975, by Peter
Baldwin. Contemporary Sociology 21:346-47.
1989
Open for Business: The Roots of Foreign Ownership in Canada, by Gordon Laxer, review essay
by Ann Orloff and Eric Parker, Canadian Journal of Sociology 14:509-16.
1987
Capitalist Democracy in Britain, by Ralph Miliband. American Journal of Sociology 92:1273-1275.
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American Journal of
Book reviews (continued):
1987
The Limits of Symbolic Reform: The New Deal and Taxation, 1933-1939, by Mark Leff.
Contemporary Sociology 16:341-343.
1985
Aging and Early Industrial Society, by Jill Quadagno. American Journal of Sociology 90:1123-1124.
REPORTS AND WORKING PAPERS ____________________________________________________________
2014
“Introduction: The Many Hands of the State,” by Kimberly Morgan and Ann Orloff, Buffett Institute for
Global Studies, Northwestern University, Working Paper 14-001.
2005
“Farewell to Maternalism?: State Policies and Mothers’ Employment,” Institute for Policy Research,
Northwestern University, Working Paper 05-10.
2004
“Social Provision and Regulation: Theories of States, Social Policies and Modernity,” Institute for Policy
Research, Northwestern University, Working Paper 04-07.
2002
“Social Theory, Modernity, and the Three Waves of Historical Sociology” (by Julia Adams, Elisabeth
Clemens and Ann Shola Orloff), Russell Sage Foundation Working Paper #206.
2001
Women’s Employment and Welfare Regimes,” report prepared for the UN Research Institute for Social
Development, UNRISD Programme Paper.
2000
“Farewell to Maternalism: Welfare Reform, Liberalism, and the End of Mothers Right to Choose
Between Employment and Full-Time Care,” Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University,
Working Paper 00-7.
1999
“The Significance of Changing Gender Relations and Family Forms for Systems of Social Protection,”
study prepared for the World Labour Report 1999, International Labour Organization
1999
“Ending the Entitlements of Poor Mothers, Expanding the Claims of Poor Employed Parents: Gender,
Race and U.S. Social Policy in an Era of Retrenchment.” Working paper for European Forum on
“Recasting the Welfare State,” European University Institute, Florence, Italy
1996/97
“Gender in the Liberal Welfare States: Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States,”
and “Gender and the Welfare State,” Instituto Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones, Madrid,
Spain
1995
“Gender and Welfare States,” Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Paper, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
WRITING IN PROGRESS____________________________________________________________________
“Toward a Gender-open Future? Transformations in Gender, Global Capitalism and Systems of Social Provision and
Regulation,” book manuscript under contract with Russell Sage Foundation.
“Gender and Welfare States,” essay for the Springer Handbook of the Sociology of Gender, and Social Politics, with
Marie Laperrriere.
“Gender and the 2016 election,” article for special issue of the British Journal of Sociology on the 2016 election, with
Leslie McCall.
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INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS___________________________________________________
2016
“Farewell to Maternalism? Toward a Gender-Open Future? Transformations in Gendered Labor
Policies and Feminist Politics, Sweden and the US, 1960s-2010s,” seminar presentation at
Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR), Stanford University, January 11
2015
“Toward a Gender-Open Future,” seminar presentation at the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, April 29
2014
“Feminists in Power: Rethinking Gender Equality After the Second Wave,” by Ann Orloff and Talia
Schiff, presentation given at the Social Politics Twentieth Anniversary conference, Revisioning Gender,
Stockholm, Sweden, June 13-15
2014
“Gendered Labor Policies and the Political Prospects for Feminist Redesigns of Care in the US and
Sweden,” paper given at conference on “Shifting Notions of Social Citizenship: The ‘Two Wests’” Paris,
France, June 11-13
2014
“The Many Hands of the State: An Introduction ” (with Kimberly Morgan) and “Gendering States:
Transforming Gendered Labor Policies in the US and Sweden,” papers presented at the conference,
“The Many Hands of the State,” part of The State as History and Theory, a project of the University of
Chicago Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, May 15-17
2014
"Gender and the Transformation of Welfare States,” keynote lecture presented at an international
conference on "Protestant Ethics and the Modern Welfare State: Late effects of the Reformation,”
organized by the Institute of Social Sciences of Protestant Churches, Hannover; Protestant Academy
Berlin; Institute of diaconical research, Heidelberg, Germany, April 4-5, 2014, Berlin, Germany
2013
Invited panelist, Presidential panel on “The State as History and Theory,” at the annual meeting of the
Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 21-24, 2013
2013
“Gender, Welfare States and Transformations in Global Capitalism,” keynote lecture for Joint NordWel
and REASSESS International Summer School 2013, “State, Society & Citizen: Cross-Disciplinary
Perspectives on Welfare State Development, Hveragerði, Iceland, 15-20 August and lecture at
University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, 20 August
2013
“Borrowing Across Borders: Gender Equality Policies in Sweden, the US and Beyond,” paper given
at the invited panel "Rethinking the Global and Transnational in Power and Politics," Section on
Global & Transnational Sociology Session, annual meeting of the American Sociological
Association, New York, August 11
2013
“Gender, Welfare and Ways out of Crises – Historical and Contemporary Experience,” plenary keynote
address, “Shifting to Post-Crisis Welfare States in Europe? Long and Short Term perspectives,” closing
international conference of the Nordic Centre of Excellence Programme on Welfare Research funded
by NordForsk (Nordic Research Council), Nordic Embassies, 4-5 June, Berlin, Germany
2013
“Farewell to maternalism, towards a gender-open future? Gendered labor policies in the US and
Sweden, 1960s-2000s, paper given at the conference, “Work and Social Transformations in
Contemporary Capitalism,” The University of Chicago, April 26 and 27
2012
“Toward Gender Equality in a Context of Complex Inequalities,” keynote address to Yale symposium
on Inequality, September 7
2012
"Toward a Gender-Open Future? Equality and Diversity in Feminist Social Politics and Policy," keynote
address at “Reassessing the Nordic Welfare Model – Final International Conference,” Oslo, Norway,
August 21-22
2012
Panelist on “Social Policy as discipline, policy and activism,” at “Transforming Social Policy - a
colloquium in honour of the work of Fiona Williams,” University of Leeds, UK, June 29
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Invited Lectures and Conference Papers (continued)
2012
“Towards a Gender-open Future? Gendered Labor Policies in the US and Sweden, 1960s-2000s,"
keynote address at the NordWel final conference Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Welfare State
Development, University of Southern Denmark, 14-16 June and as a colloquium presentation at the
University of Oxford (UK), Department of Social Policy and Intervention, 26 June
2011
“Farewell to Maternalism? State Policies, Feminist Politics and Mothers’ Employment,” presentations to
Department of Sociology colloquium, Yale University, April 6 and to Department of Sociology
colloquium, New York University, April 11
2010
“Rethinking Power and Politics,” Social Science History Association Presidential address, Chicago,
November 20
2009
“Farewell to Maternalism? State policies, feminist politics and mothers’ employment,” keynote address,
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Social Policy Research Centre, Australian Social
Policy Conference, July 7-9
2009
“Farewell to Maternalism? State Policies, Feminist Politics and Mothers’ Employment,” keynote
address at the Summer School of Nordwel (“The Nordic Welfare State – Historical Foundations and
Future Challenges”), “State, Society & Citizen: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Welfare State
Development,” sponsored by Nordic Center of Excellence; University of Helsinki; The Stein Rokkan
Centre, University of Bergen, Norway, June 7-12
2008
“Farewell to Maternalism? The Future of Women’s Citizenship and Welfare Claims,” keynote address,
Social Policy Association annual conference, Edinburgh, UK, June 23-25
2008
“A Gender Assessment of the Nordic Welfare Model,” Annual Conference of the EU project on
“Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe,” Oslo, Norway, June 13
2008
“States, Gender, Inequalities: Welfare and Employment Policies in a Globalizing World,” Max Weber
Programme Conference on “Globalization and Inequalities: Reflections on the Development of a
Divided World,” European University Institute, Florence, Italy, June 11-12
2007
“Nordic and the US Gender Equality Models Compared,” plenary address, conference on "Reasessing
the Nordic Welfare Model," Nordic Centre of Excellence, Oslo, Norway, 24-25 October
2006
“Farewell to Maternalism? State Policies, Social Politics and Mothers’ Employment,” Wesleyan
University Center for the Humanities, March 5, and Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, April 26
2006
“From Maternalism to Mothers´ Employment: Dangers and Opportunities," keynote address, Annual
conference of the European Social Policy Network, Bremen, Germany, September 21
2006
“Social Theory, Modernity, and Historical Sociology,” Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, February 16;
Facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell'Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, International Seminar Program,
March 10
2006
“What Future for American Social Policy?” American Centre, Institut d’Etudes Politique de Paris
(Sciences Po), February 13
2006
“Farewell to Maternalism? State Policies, Social Politics and Mothers’ Employment,” Centre de
Recherches Politiques, Institut d’Etudes Politique de Paris (Sciences Po), February 9; Universite Paris
1 (Sorbonne), Maison des Sciences Economique, February 22; University of Milan Centre on Women
and Gender Differences, March 9; Yale Law School, Workplace Theory and Policy Seminar, April 10;
Russell Sage Foundation, New York City, October 11.
2005
“Farewell to Maternalism? State Policies and Mothers’ Employment,” presentation at Department of
Social and Political Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, May 5; at the Central
European University Gender Studies Program, Budapest, June 13; at thematic session on “American
Family Changes in International Perspective: Rearguard or Cutting Edge?,” annual meeting of the
American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, August 13.
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Invited Lectures and Conference Papers (continued)
2004
“Farewell to Maternalism? State Policies and Mothers’ Employment,” presentation at Carleton
University School of Public Policy and Administration, Ottawa, Canada, November 2.
2004
"How Likely is Welfare State Expansion to Support Employed Parents?" presentation at Thematic
Panel, “Work and Family,” American Sociological Association meeting, San Francisco, August 14-17.
2004
“State Policies, Labour Markets and Families,” plenary lecture, at conference on “Work-life Balance
Across the Lifecourse,” Center for Research on Families and Relationship, University of Edinburgh,
June 30 – July 2.
2004
Keynote address, “Farewell to Maternalism? State Policies and Mothers Employment.” Conference for
young scholars, "Changing Welfare States: Exploring European Social Policies and Populations in
Time and Space," Anthropology of Europe Workshop, University of Chicago, May 28.
2004
“Rethinking Modernity: Feminist contributions and critiques,” presentation to the working groups on
political economy and gender, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, March 25.
2003
“Women’s Citizenship, Work, and Care,” at “Rethinking the Welfare State, From Triangles to
Diamonds: State, Market, Family and Community,” Canadian Political Science Association, Halifax,
May 31.
2003
“States, Gender, Care and Women’s (In)dependence: From Maternalism to Employment for All?”
Paper presented at a conference on “The State after Statism: New State Activities in the Age of
Globalization and Liberalization,” University of California, Berkeley, May 2-3
2003
“Supporting social reproduction in the US: Shifting claims from caregiving to employment," paper
presented at “The Gender of Politics: The Example of Reproduction Policies in Austria, Finland,
Portugal, Romania, Russia, and the US,” Bruno Kreisky Archives Foundation, Vienna, March 13-15
2002
“The Second Great Transformation?: Gender, States and Women’s Labor Force Participation in the
West,” Paper presented at a workshop on “Gender and Individualisation,” Oxford University, UK
“Farewell to Maternalism?: Welfare Reform, Ending Entitlement to Poor Single Mothers and Expanding
the Claims of Poor Employed Parents,” University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Sept. 27
2002
2002
“Gender Equality, Women's Employment: Cross-National Patterns of Policy and Politics,” workshop on
“Welfare, Work and Family: Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective,” Robert Schuman Centre
for Advanced Studies and Gender Studies Programme, European University Institute, Florence, June
7-8; and Center for Research on Families, Departments of Sociology and Economics, University of
Washington, Seattle, November 22
2001
“Gender Equality, Women's Employment: Cross-National Patterns of Policy and Politics,” keynote
lecture at the workshop on "Old and New Social Inequalities: What challenges for the welfare state,” of
the Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC 19) of the International
Sociological Association, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
2001
“Farewell to Maternalism?: Welfare Reform, Ending Entitlement to Poor Single Mothers and Expanding
the Claims of Poor Employed Parents,” lecture presented to the CAVA International Seminar on “New
Divisions of Labour,” University of Leeds, Leeds, UK and seminar of the Multidisciplinary Program in
Inequality and Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
2000
“Women’s Employment, Inequality, and State Policies,” keynote lecture at a conference on “What
future for social security?” University of Stirling, Scotland
2000
“Gender Equality, Women’s Employment and Welfare States,” paper presented in the Presidential
session on the comparative analysis of welfare states, annual meeting of the American Sociological
Association, Washington, D.C. and at the seminar on comparative politics and policy at the Institut
d’Etudes Politiques, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France
10
Invited Lectures and Conference Papers (continued)
2000
“States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy,” lecture presented to the Department
Colloquium, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota
1999
“Women’s Exclusion and Inferior Inclusion in Systems of Social Provision,” lecture presented at a
workshop on “The Extension of Social Protection,” International Labour Organization, Geneva
1999
Panelist at author-meets-critics session organized around States, Markets, Families: Gender,
Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States, Social Science
History Association.
1999
“Gender and Welfare States,” plenary lecture presented to a symposium on “Citizenship, Family Policy
and Welfare State Developments in Europe,” Roskilde University, Denmark
1999
“States, Markets and Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain
and the United States,” talk presented at Department of Social Sciences, University of Utrecht, the
Netherlands, and Department of Sociology, University of Oviedo, Spain
1999
“Gender and Social Provision,” lecture at the European Consortium for Political Research Summer
School, held at European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
1998
“Ending the Entitlements of Poor Mothers, Expanding the Claims of Poor Employed Parents: Gender,
Race and U.S. Social Policy in an Era of Retrenchment,” paper presented at the Thematic Session on
“Gender and Welfare State Restructuring,” annual meeting of the ASA, San Francisco and at the
European Forum, “Recasting the Welfare State?,” Robert Schuman Centre, European University
Institute, Florence, Italy.
1997
“Gender and the Politics of Welfare State Restructuring in the U.S., Britain, Canada and Australia,”
presentations at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University and the Robert Schuman Centre,
European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
1997
“Transformations of the Liberal Welfare State in the U.S. and Great Britain,” paper presented at the
conference, “Revisioning the Welfare State: Feminist Perspectives on the U.S. and Europe,” Institute
for European Studies, Cornell University.
1997
Panelist, “The Concept of Gender: Research Implications for Political Science,” annual meeting of the
American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C.
1997
"Citizens, Workers, or Fathers?: Men in U.S. Social Policy,” paper presented at the conference on
“Welfare State Challenge, Marginalization and Poverty,” sponsored by Research Committee 19 of the
International Sociological Association, Danish National Institute of Social Research, Copenhagen.
1997
"Motherhood, Work and Welfare in Australia, Britain, Canada, the United States," paper given at the
workshop on “The American Welfare State from the New Deal to the Great Society, Robert Schuman
Centre, European University Institute, Firenze, Italy
1997
“Gender and the Comparative Analysis of Social Policy,” presentation given at the European University
Institute, Florence, and Department of Sociology, University of Turin, Italy
1996
“Work, Welfare and Gender in the English-speaking Countries,” lecture to the Department of
Sociology, Ohio State University.
1996
"Motherhood, Work and Welfare in Australia, Britain, Canada, the United States," paper given in
Presidential session on "Gender in the Making and Unmaking of Welfare States," Social Science
History Association.
1996
"Analyzing the Gender Effects of State Social Provision," plenary lecture at the conference on
"Women, Difference and Citizenship," July 14-16, University of Greenwich, London, England.
1995
Lecture series, "Gender Relations and Welfare States," Juan March Institute of Advanced Studies
in the Social Sciences, Madrid, Spain.
11
Invited Lectures and Conference Papers (continued)
1995
"Gender in the Liberal Welfare States: Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States,"
paper presented at “Comparative Research on Welfare State Reforms,” Research Committee 19 of the
International Sociological Association, University of Pavia, Italy.
1994
Comment on Regulating the Poor (revised edition), by Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward,
at "Author Meets Critics" session, annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
1994
"Social Provision and Gender Relations in Australia and the United States," Center for European
Studies, Harvard University.
1994
“Gender, Work, and Welfare: Economic Restructuring and Welfare Reform in Australia, Canada, Great
Britain and the US,” paper presented at the conference "Crossing Borders,” and at the Department of
Sociology, Stockholm University, Stockholm Sweden
1994
Lecture and seminar on The Politics of Pensions, Department of History, Carnegie-Mellon University.
1993
Panelist at author-meets-critics session organized around The Politics of Pensions, annual meeting
of the Social Science History Association.
1993
Comment on Rethinking Social Policy, by Christopher Jencks, at "Author Meets Critics" session,
annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
1993
"Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship," Social Policy Research Centre, University of New
South Wales; Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National University; Women's
Studies Department, La Trobe University; Departments of Sociology and Government, Queensland
University, Department of Sociology and Political Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
Australia.
1992
"Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship" and "Feminism and Analyses of the State," lectures
at the Department of Sociology, Indiana University.
1992
"Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship: State Policies and Gender Relations in Comparative
Perspective." Paper presented at the workshop on "Comparative Studies of Welfare State
Development" of the Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy of the
International Sociological Association, Bremen, Germany.
1992
"Gender and Social Citizenship in the Welfare State." Presentation to the Department of Sociology
at the University of California-San Diego.
1991
"The Politics of Pensions in Britain, the United States and Canada, 1880s-1930s: The Role of State
Formation and State Building in Policy Developments." Paper presented at the workshop on
“Comparative Studies of Welfare State Development" of the Research Committee on Poverty, Social
Welfare and Social Policy of the International Sociological Association, Helsinki, Finland.
1991
"Rethinking Social Policy Regimes and Gender." Presentation at the Center for Women's Studies,
University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.
1991
"Gender in Early U.S. Social Policy." Lecture, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University.
1990
Comment on Poor Support, by David Ellwood, at "Author Meets Critics" session, annual meeting
of the American Sociological Association.
1989
"The Future of Social Provision in the United States." Lecture to a conference on "Rethinking
North American Relationships," Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
1989
"Business and Social Policy in Canada and the United States." Presentation to the Comparative
Politics Workshop of the University of Chicago.
12
Invited Lectures and Conference Papers (continued)
1986
"The Politics of Pensions: Comparing Canada, Britain and the United States." Presentation to the
Department of Sociology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
1985
"The Idea of the Welfare State: The Contribution of Political Learning." Presentation at a conference
on "The Future of the Welfare State," New School for Social Research.
1984
"Explaining the Exceptional American Welfare State: A State-Centered Approach." Presentation
to a Colloquium on "Theoretical Approaches to American Social Politics," Center for the Study of
Industrial Societies, University of Chicago.
INVITED DISCUSSANT OR PANELIST AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS________________________________________________
2016
Session on “Social Policy, Labor Markets and Gender Equality,” annual workshop of the Research
Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC 19) of the International Sociological
Association, University of Costa Rica, August 25-27
2015
“Revisiting Remaking Modernity,” keynote address to a mini-conference organized by the American
Sociological Association’s section on Comparative and Historical Sociology on the occasion of the
tenth anniversary of the publication of Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, Sociology, August 20,
Northwestern University
2015
Panelist, “The State in the Twenty-First Century,” invited session of the American Sociological
Association’s Political Sociology section
2012
Commentator on panel, “Old and new cleavages: Problems and responses,” at “Welfare States Facing
Global Turbulence, Ageing and Migration: Rising to the Occasion, Coping or Adjusting Downwards?,”
annual meeting of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Poverty, Social
Welfare and Social Policy (RC 19), Oslo, Norway, 23-25 August
2012
Comments on Nordic Fatherhoods, edited by by: Guðný Eydal and Tine Rostgaard, at “Reassessing
the Nordic Welfare Model – Final International Conference,” Oslo, Norway, August 21-22
2012
“Long-term Perspectives on Welfare State Development,” NCoE NordWel conference CrossDisciplinary Perspectives on Welfare State Development, University of Southern Denmark, 14-16 June
2011
Plenary session, “Changing Worlds of Work and Welfare. What do we learn from RECWOWE’s
activities?” and regular sessions, “Care between Work and Welfare in European Societies,” and
“Women on Corporate Boards,” at “Work and Welfare in Europe: New Compromises or Ongoing
Demise?,” final conference of RECWOWE (Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe, EU-funded
th
Network of Excellence in the 6 Framework programme), Brussels, Belgium, June 2011
2011
“Theoretical Innovations: Institutional perspectives,” panel at the annual conference of the Society for
the Advancement of Socioeconomics, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, June 2011
2011
Workshop on “Parties and Political Articulation,” University of Chicago, April 29, 2011
2009
Session on “Local experiments and shifting patterns of governance,” annual meeting of Research
Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC 19) of the International Sociological
Association, Montreal, Canada
2008
Session on “Citizenship in Transformation: Social Rights and the Market in a Global Perspective,”
annual meeting of Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC 19) of the
International Sociological Association, Stockholm, Sweden
2007
Session on “Globalizing Ideas in Social Policy,” at “Social Policy in a Globalizing World: Developing a
North-South Dialogue,” annual meeting of Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social
Policy (RC 19) of the International Sociological Association, Florence, Italy
13
Invited Panelist or Discussant (continued):
2006
Section on Sex and Gender Invited Session, “Shifting Gender Regimes: Work Transformations in
Comparative Perspective,” American Sociological Association
2004
Sessions on “European Transformations in Gender, Work and Family,” and on “Varieties of Capital,
Labor and Gender,” Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 11-13
2003
Thematic Session, “Culture, Family and Family Policy,” American Sociological Association
2002
Panelist at “Author meets critics” session on Development and Crises of the Welfare State, by Evelyne
Huber and John Stephens, American Sociological Association
2002
Panelist at special roundtable, "State Feminism, Women's Movements, and Democracy: Debating the
First Two Books of the Research Network on Gender and States: State Feminism, Women's
Movements, and Job Training, ed. by Amy Mazur and Abortion Politics, Women's Movements and the
Democratic State: A Comparative Study of State Feminism, ed. by Dorothy McBride Stetson,”
American Political Science Association
2002
“Redesigning Welfare Regimes: The Building Blocks of a New Architecture,” American Political
Science Association
2002
Panelist at roundtable on “Gender and Economic Citizenship,” European Social Science History
Conference, The Hague, The Netherlands
2001
“Gender Equality in the Future of Swedish Welfare” at the presentation of the “Balance Sheet of
Swedish Welfare in the 1990s” to the Swedish Ministry of Social Affairs, Stockholm
http://www.regeringen.se/webbutsandningar/ondemand/011023a.ram
2001
Panelist at session on Destined for Equality, by Robert Jackson, Social Science History Association
2000
Critic, “Author-meets-critics” session on Transformations of Patriarchy in the West, by Pavla Miller,
annual meeting of the Social Science History Association
2000
“Women and the State: Both Friend and Foe,” special session at the annual meeting of the American
Sociological Association, Washington, D.C.
1999
“What Can be Done About the Problem of Civic Engagement?,” conference at Maxwell School of
Citizenship, Syracuse University
1999
“Global Trajectories: Ideas, Transnational Policy Transfer, and ‘Models’ of Welfare Reform,”
conference of the European Forum on ARecasting the Welfare State?”, European University Institute,
Florence, Italy
1999
“Gender, Citizenship and Caring,” conference at University of Gottingen, Germany sponsored by
Targeted Socio-Economic Research programme of the European Commission
1998
“New Approaches to Social Services and Social Assistance,” conference of the European Forum,
“Recasting the Welfare State?”, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
1998
“Women’s Agency and Welfare States,” session of the section on Comparative and Historical
Sociology, American Sociological Association
1998
“Women’s Work and Social Policy in Early 20th Century America,” Social Science History Association
1997
Thematic Session: “Comparative Inequality: USA in a Comparative Perspective,” American
Sociological Association
1996
"Reshaping Australian Institutions: The Welfare State," session on elections and social policy,
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
14
Invited Panelist or Discussant (continued)
1996
"The Stockholm School of Welfare State Analysis" at the workshop on "Comparative Studies of
Welfare State Development" of the Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy
(RC 19) of the International Sociological Association, Australian National University, Canberra,
Australia.
1995
"Constructing and Reconstructing the State," Social Science History Association.
1995
"Comparing Across Differences," American Sociological Association.
1994
"Institutions and the Evolution of New Deal Social Policy," Social Science History Association
1993
"Women, Work and Social Policy" at the workshop on "Comparative Studies of Welfare State
Development" of the RC 19, Oxford University, U.K.
1991
"Institutions and the Costs of Power" at the workshop on "Comparative Studies of Welfare State
Development" of RC 19 of the International Sociological Association, Helsinki, Finland.
1991
"The U.S. Welfare State in Three Eras," Social Science History Association
1990
"The Politics of Basic Income Grants," conference on "Basic Income Guarantees: A New Welfare
Strategy?," University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1989
"Teaching Historical Sociology," and "Women's Work, Motherhood, and State Policy," Social Science
History Association.
1989
"Historical Development of the Welfare State," conference on "Women in the Welfare State,"
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1986
"Comparative Social Systems," American Sociological Association annual meeting
1984
"Management Strategies in the Labor Market," annual meeting of Social Science History Association
1983
"Labor and the State," annual meeting of the Social Science History Association.
PAPERS AND PANEL PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS____________________________________
2016
“Gendered States Made and Remade: Gendered Labor Policies in the US and Sweden, 1960-2010”,
paper presented at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, November
17-20
2016
“Gendered States Made and Remade: Gendered Labor Policies in the US and Sweden, 1960-2010,”
paper presented at the annual workshop of the Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and
Social Policy (RC 19) of the International Sociological Association, University of Costa Rica, August
25-27
2014
“Feminists in Power: Rethinking Gender Equality After the Second Wave,” by Ann Orloff and Talia
Schiff, paper given at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, November 6-9
2014
“Gendered Labor Policies and the Political Prospects for Feminist Redesigns of Care in the US and
Sweden,” paper given at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, November 6-9
2013
“Feminists in Power: The Challenges of Governance and Inequality,” by Ann Orloff and Talia Schiff,
paper given at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2124, 2013
2013
“Gendered Labor Policies in the US and Sweden: Global Transformations and Policy Legacies,” paper
given at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 21-24
15
Papers presented at professional meetings, continued:
2012
“Gendered Labor Policies and Politics in Sweden and the US, 1960s-2000s,” paper presented at the
annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Vancouver, Canada, November 2 and at
“Welfare States Facing Global Turbulence, Ageing and Migration: Rising to the Occasion, Coping or
Adjusting Downwards?,” annual meeting of the International Sociological Association Research
Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC 19), Oslo, Norway, 23-25 August
2012
Thematic Session, “Undoing Gender: Is It Possible? Is It Desirable?” roundtable panelist, annual
meeting of the American Sociological Association, Denver, August 17
2011
“Capitalism, Gender, Citizenship and the Potential for Egalitarian Policy Reforms,” paper presented at
the annual conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics, Universidad Autonoma
de Madrid, Spain, June 2011
2009
“Gendering the Comparative Analysis of Welfare States: An Unfinished Agenda,” paper presented at
the Annual Meeting of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Poverty,
Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC19), Montreal, Canada, August 20-22
2009
“The Three Waves of Historical Sociology,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American
Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 10
2008
“Should Feminists Aim for Gender Symmetry?: Why the Dual-Earner/Dual-Carer Model May Not Be
Every Feminist’s Utopia,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Sociological
Association Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC19), Stockholm,
September 4-6
2007
“Feminism, Care and “Gender Symmetry”: Shall We All Embrace the Dual Earner/Dual Carer Model?”
Paper for Presentation at the ESPAnet Conference “Social Policy in Europe,” Stream 12: Gendering
Payments for Care, Vienna, Austria, September 21
2005
Author Meets Critics session on Remaking Modernity: Politics, History and Sociology (edited by Julia
Adams, Elisabeth Clemens and Ann Shola Orloff), American Sociological Association, Philadelphia
2004
“Farewell to Maternalism? State Policies and Mothers’ Employment,” paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare
and Social Policy (RC19), Paris, September 2-4.
2003
“States, Gender, Care and Women’s (In)dependence: From Maternalism to Employment for All?” paper
presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia.
2003
“Social Provision and Regulation: Theories of States, Social Policies and Modernity,” paper presented
at the Annual Meeting of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Poverty,
Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC19), Toronto
2001
“Farewell to Maternalism: Welfare Reform, Ending the Entitlement for Poor Single Mothers and
Expanding the Claims of Poor Employed Parents,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the
American Political Science Association, San Francisco.
2000
“The Other Right to Choose: Employment, Caring and Welfare States.” Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the European Social Science History Association, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
1997
“The Cultural Work of the State: Making Masculinities and Femininities in Social Policy.” Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Washington, D.C.
1997
“Making Fathers out of Men?: Fathers in U.S. Social Policy” (with Renee Monson). Paper presented at
annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada.
1995
"Gender Regimes in the Social Policies of Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United
States." Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Social Policy Research Centre, University
of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
16
Papers presented at professional meetings, continued:
1994
"Income Security Policies in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States:
Gender Differentiation and Gender Inequality." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
American Sociological Association.
1992
"Building Cross-Class Coalitions for the Welfare State: Agrarian Interests and Policy Outcomes
in Canada, Sweden and the United States, 1930s-1940s" (with Eric Parker). Paper presented at
the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association.
1992
"Gender and Citizenship Rights" (by Ann Orloff and Leslie McCall). Paper presented at the
International Conference of Europeanists.
1992
"The Politics of Pensions in Britain, the United States and Canada, 1880s-1930s: The Role of
State Formation and State Building in Policy Developments." Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the Organization of American Historians.
1991
"Rethinking Social Policy Regimes: Gender, Class and Race in the Welfare State." Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association.
1991
"Gender and Social Citizenship in the Welfare State." Paper presented at the mini-conference on
"Gender, Citizenship and Social Policy" held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Social
Science History Association.
1991
"The Gender Regimes of the Welfare State" (by Ann Orloff, Julia O'Connor and Sheila Shaver).
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
1991
"The Origins of Pensions and Old Age Insurance in America, Canada, and England." Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association.
1990
"Agrarian Politics in the Emergence of the North American Welfare States, 1920-1940" (by Ann
Orloff and Eric Parker). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological
Association.
1989
"Social Assistance and Social Insurance in the Early American Welfare State: Implications for
Women." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
1988
"Women in the American Welfare State: The Implications of the Social Insurance Approach."
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association.
1988
"Child Support in the Welfare State: Policymaking for Women and Children in the Contemporary
United States." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
1987
"The Political Origins of Canada's Welfare State for the Aged: The State, Political Parties, and
Policy Feedback." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Associatiopn.
1987
"A Precocious Welfare State? Civil War Benefits in the United States, 1870s-1920s" (by Theda
Skocpol, John Sutton, Ann Orloff, Edwin Amenta and Bruce Carruthers). Paper presented at the
annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
1984
"The Social Politics of Pensions and Social Insurance: A Comparative-Historical and State-Centered
Approach to the United States, 1880s-1930s." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Social
Science History Association and the American Sociological Association.
1983
"`Why Not Equal Protection?': Explaining the Politics of Public Social Spending in Britain, 19001911, and the United States, 1880s-1920" (by Ann Orloff and Theda Skocpol). Paper presented
at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
17
SESSIONS ORGANIZED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS_______________________________________________
2016
“States, Gender and the Possibilities for Political Transformation,” panel organized for the annual
meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 17-20
2015
“Gender, Modernity, Futures,” panel organized for the annual meeting of the Social Science History
Association, Baltimore, November 12-15, 2015
2013
panels organized for “Organizing Powers,” the annual meeting of the Social Science History
Association, November 21-24:
Many Hands of the State, Panels I and II: Many Hands of the State: Functions, Failures, Futures
States, Social Movements and the Perversity of Politics, Panels I and II (also served as discussant on
panel II)
2012
panels organized for “Histories of Capitalism,” the annual meeting of the Social Science History
Association, November 1-4, Vancouver, Canada:
Many Hands of the State, Panel I: How Many Hands? Quandaries of Theorizing the State
Many Hands of the State, Panel II: Stratifying States: Constructing Categories, Differences, Inequalities
Many Hands of the State, Panel III: States at Work: Functions and Failures (also served as discussant)
Articulating Gendered Connections: Subject Formation, Politics, and Global Processes I and II (also
served as discussant on panel II)
Author-meets-critics panel for The Library and the Workshop, by Jenny Andersson
2011
“Limits of Capitalism, Limits of Gender,” panel at the annual conference of the Society for the
Advancement of Socioeconomics, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, June 2011
2011
“The Many Hands of the State, I and II,” two panels for the Social Science History Association, Boston,
November 2011.
2007
Stream on “Theorizing Ideas, Discourse, Ideologies, and Culture in Social Policy and Social Politics” (3
sessions) at the ESPAnet Conference “Social Policy in Europe,” Vienna, Austria, September 20-21
2007
Author Meets Critics session on Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom, by Linda Zerilli, annual
conference of the American Sociological Association, New York, August 11
2004
“Varieties of Capitalism, Labor and Gender,” Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 11-13.
2003
Gender, State and Society mini-conference, held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Social
Science History Association, sessions on "Welfare, Gender and States of Punishment," "New
Conceptualizations of Gender and Welfare Regimes," and "Signification, Subjects, States."
2003
Political Sociology section session on "Explaining Politics: History, Culture, Comparison,” American
Sociological Association
2001
Regular session organizer for “The Welfare State,” American Sociological Association
2000
“Politics, Post-Structuralism and Intersecting Identities: Past, Present and Future Research on Gender,
State and Society,” annual meeting of the Social Science History Association.
1998
“Challenging General Linear Reality: Reports from the Fields,” Presidential session, annual meeting
of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco.
1995
Workshop on "Research on Gender, State and Society: Current Trends and Future Directions," annual
meeting of the Social Science History Association.
18
Sessions organized at professional meetings (continued):
1995
"Comparative Research Strategies" (with Charles Ragin), "Comparing Across Differences (with
Nancy Naples and Joey Sprague) and author-meets-critics session on Donald Levine's Visions of
the Sociological Tradition (with Charles Camic) for the Section on Comparative and Historical
Sociology section, annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
1994
Workshop on "Current Controversies in Analyzing Gender, State and Society," annual meeting of the
Social Science History Association.
1994
"Theory in Historical Sociology," annual meeting of the American Sociological Association
1993
Workshop on "Theoretical Challenges in the Analysis of Gender and Social Policy: Incorporating
Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality," annual meeting of the Social Science History Association.
1993
sessions of States and Societies network, annual meetings of the Social Science History Association.
1992
sessions of States and Societies network, annual meetings of the Social Science History Association.
1992
Mini-conference on "Gender, Health Care and Social Welfare in Comparative Perspective,"
annual meeting of the Social Science History Association.
1992
section on Comparative and Historical Sociology session on "Identity Formation in Comparative
and Historical Perspective," annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
1991
Mini-conference on "Gender, Citizenship, and Social Policy," annual meeting of the Social Science
History Association.
1991
"Beyond the Working Class and Welfare: New Approaches to Explaining Social Provision,"
annual meeting of the Social Science History Association.
1990
"Gender and Social Policy" miniconference, annual meeting of Social Science History Association.
1990
Political Sociology section session on "The Politics of Poverty Research," annual meeting of the
American Sociological Association.
1990
Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology session on "Gender and the State," annual
meeting of the American Sociological Association.
1990
sessions of Political History network, annual meeting of the Social Science History Association.
1986
"Comparative Social Systems," annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
RESEARCH SUPPORT_____________________________________________________________________
External Support:
2005-15
Editorial support for Social Politics, Oxford University Press, $70,000.
2000-01
“The Making and Unmaking of Modernity: Politics and Processes in Historical Sociology,” conference
and edited volume, with Julia Adams and Elisabeth Clemens. Proposal funded by the American
Sociological Association Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, $4910.
1998-99
“Work, Family and Welfare: Economic Restructuring and the Reform of Welfare States in Europe and
the United States.” Research funded by Jean Monnet Fellowship, European Forum on “Recasting the
Welfare State?”, Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute.
1995-96
"Gender, Work, and Welfare: Economic Restructuring and Welfare Reform in Canada, the United
States, Australia and Great Britain." Canadian Studies Faculty Research Grant of the Canadian
Government, $5000.
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External Research Support (continued):
1993
"The Gender Regimes of Liberal Welfare States: A Comparative Analysis of Australia, Britain, Canada
and the United States, 1900s-1980s." German Marshall Fund of the United States Research
Fellowship and travel support, $32,000.
1991-92
"Building Cross-Class Coalitions for the Welfare State: Agrarian Interests and Policy Outcomes in
Canada, the United States and Sweden." Canadian Studies Faculty Research Grant, $4000.
1989-93
"Child Support in the Welfare State: Policymaking for Women and Children in the Contemporary United
States." Proposal funded by the National Science Foundation, $93,332.
1988-90
"Agrarian Politics in the Emergence of the North American Welfare State, 1920-1940." Proposal
funded by the Canadian Studies Faculty Research Grant of the Canadian Government, $5000.
1988-89
"Child Support in the Welfare State: Policymaking for Women and Children in the Contemporary
United States." American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid, $3000.
1987-88
"Business Political Activity and Social Policy in Canada and the United States, 1920-1940." Proposal
funded by the Canadian Studies Faculty Research Grant of the Canadian Government, $5000.
1985-86
"Social Welfare Policy and Social Mobilization: The Cases of Canada, Great Britain and the United
States." Canadian Studies Faculty Research Grant of the Canadian Government, $5000.
Internal Support:
(Refers to University of Wisconsin-Madison through August 1998; Northwestern University after August 1998)
1998-present
General research funds awarded by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
2000-06
Faculty Fellow (one-quarter appointment), Institute for Policy Research
1997-98
“Gender in the Liberal Welfare States: Explaining Social Policies in Australia, Canada, Great Britain
and the United States, 1960s-1990s.” Proposal funded by the Graduate School Research Committee.
1995-96
General research funds (one semester salary) awarded by the Graduate School (retention offer).
1995-96,
1994-95
"Gender Regimes in the Liberal Welfare States." Proposals funded by the Graduate School
Research Committee.
1993
"Gender Regimes in the Liberal Welfare States." Funds to supplement German Marshall Fund
fellowship awarded by the Graduate School.
1988-90
"Child Support in the Welfare State: Policymaking for Women and Children in the Contemporary
United States." Proposals funded by the Graduate School.
1987
Summer salary awarded by Child Support Project, Institute for Research on Poverty.
1986-87
"Social Welfare Policy and Social Mobilization: The Cases of Britain, Canada, and the United
States." Proposal funded by the Graduate School.
1985-86
General research funds awarded by the Graduate School.
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE___________________________________________________________________
Member
Sociological Research Association, American Sociological Association (and sections on Political Sociology; Comparative
and Historical Sociology; Culture; Theory; Global & Transnational Sociology; and Sex and Gender), Society for
Comparative Research, Social Science History Association, American Political Science Association, International
Sociological Association; International Sociological Association Research Committee on Comparative Studies of Welfare
States (RC 19); Council of European Studies.
President
Social Science History Association, 2009-10
Research Committee 19 (Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy), International Sociological Association, 2002-10
Chair
American Sociological Association Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology, 1993-1995
American Sociological Association Section on Political Sociology, 2006-2007
Editor and Founder
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society, 1993 - 2015
Scientific Advisory Board, Nordic Research Board (NordForsk), the Nordic Centre of Excellence Programme in
Welfare Research 2007-2012
International Advisory Committee, Network of Excellence (NoE) of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) of the
European Commission, “Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe,” 2006-2011
Program Chair and Conference Organizer
“Many Hands of the State,” with Kimberly Morgan, Elisabeth Clemens, Bernard Harcourt and James Sparrow, part of
“The State as History and Theory,” a project of the University of Chicago Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society,
May 15-17, 2014
“Retheorizing Welfare States: Restructuring States, Restructuring Analysis,” annual conference of the Research
Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC 19) of the International Sociological Association,
Northwestern University, September 8-10, 2005
“Prospects for Women’s Equality in a Global Economy: Varieties of Capitalism, Labor and Gender,” Northwestern
University, October, 2003
“Models of Welfare Reform: Understanding Processes of Diffusion,” conference of the European Forum on “Recasting
the Welfare State,” European University Institute, Florence, Italy, April, 1999
Workshop coordinator, "Comparative Studies of Welfare States and Gender," UW-Madison Women's Studies Research
Center, project on "Internationalizing Women's Studies and Integrating Gender into Area Studies Programs," January,
1997
Social Science History Association annual meeting, Program Chair, October, 1996, New Orleans
Editorial Board Member
Journal of Policy History, 1992-2006
American Journal of Sociology, 1988-90
H-State, electronic network on states and social policies, 1994-98
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Executive Committee Member
Social Science History Association, 1995-98, 2008-13
Council or Advisory Committee Member
International Advisory Committee, Program on Comparative Gender Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden, 2000-04
Conseil international de rédaction, Lien social et Politiques, Département de science politique of the Université de
Montréal, 2001-04
Academic Council of European University Institute, elected representative of Jean Monnet Fellows, 1998-99
Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, 1989-93
American Sociological Association Political Sociology Section, 1987-90
Committee Member, Professional Associations
Committee on Sections, American Sociological Association, 2004-07
Nominations Committee, Theory Section, American Sociological Association, 2005
Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award Committee, American Sociological Association, 2002-04
Nominations Committee, Sociological Research Association, 2003
Referee
American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, American Political Science Review, Social Forces,
Research in Political Sociology, Sociological Forum, Social Science History, Law and Society Review, Journal of Policy
History, Southern European Society and Politics; European Societies; Feminist Economics; Political Science Quarterly;
Political Theory; Socio-economic Review
Reviewer
(proposals and book manuscripts) National Science Foundation; German Marshall Fund; Russell Sage Foundation;
Social Science and Historical Research Council (Canada); Stanford University Press; University of Minnesota Press;
Guilford Press; University of North Carolina Press; Oxford University Press; Princeton University Press; Routledge; Duke
University Press; Scandinavian Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences
(tenure and promotion cases): University of California at San Diego; Barnard College, Columbia University; Australian
National University; University of Sydney; University of California-Santa Barbara; University of California-Davis; New
York University; University of Michigan; University of Nebraska; University of Kentucky; University of Toronto; Harvard
University; University of Queensland; Yale University; University of Copenhagen
Other Professional and Community Service
Co-chair, Evanston chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network, 2011-2014
Panel member, Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS), review of grant applications for
“Organisation and change in the welfare society” program, 2012.
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Other Professional and Community Service, continued:
Served as professor at summer schools for doctoral students (2013), Joint NordWel and REASSESS International
Summer School 2013, “State, Society & Citizen: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives On Welfare State Development,
Hveragerði, Iceland; (2011): “Gender, States and Welfare in a Global Economy,” at the Central European University in
Budapest, and “State, Society & Citizen: Cross-disciplinary: Perspectives on Welfare State Development,” at Sigtuna,
Sweden, organized by the Nordic Centre of Excellence Programme in Welfare Research.
European Research Council, panel member for the evaluation of the 2008, 2010, 2012 Advanced Grants competition,
Social Sciences Division
European Research Council, remote evaluator for the 2007 Starting Grants competition, Social Sciences Division
Dissertation committee, principal opponent, Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, Norway, 2005
Selection Committee, Chair in Political Theory, Social and Political Studies, European University Institute, March 2004
Professor, University of Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies, "Comparative Studies of Welfare
States: Gender, Class and Politics," July/August 2003.
International advisor, Swedish Welfare Commission, conference and publication: Welfare in Sweden: The Balance
Sheet for the 1990s, October 2001.
“The State of Feminism,” panelist on WBEZ Odyssey, June 28, 2001
“Women’s Employment, (Gender, Class and Other) Inequalities, and State Policy: Cross-national Variation,” talk at
Northwestern University Social Science Domain Dinner, January 2000
“Think Tank” (PBS show), interviewed on welfare reform, August 1997
Teaching and Advising___________________________________________________________________
Courses Taught:
Undergraduate (Sociology): Gender, Work and Occupations; Freshman Seminar: The Future of Gender; Sociology of
Gender; Contemporary American Society; Gender, Politics and Society; Political Sociology; Senior Seminar (Women and
the Welfare State)
Graduate (Sociology): Politics, Policies and Inequalities; Comparative and Historical Approaches to Political Analysis;
Gender, Social Theory and the Possibility of Explanation; Gender, Policy, Politics; Gender and Politics; Political
Sociology; Comparative and Historical Methods in Sociology; Training Seminar in the Sociology of Gender; Social
Organization Colloquium; Seminar in Political Sociology (Topics: Recent Research on the Welfare State: Class, Gender,
and Race; States and Social Policies; Women and the State; The State and Gender, Sexuality and the Family; Gender,
Power and Politics); (Gender Studies): Advanced Feminist Theory, Social Scientific Approaches to Gender and
Sexuality
Graduate: summer schools for doctoral students: “Gender, States and Welfare in a Global Economy,” at the Central
European University in Budapest, and “State, Society & Citizen: Cross-disciplinary: Perspectives on Welfare State
Development” at Sigtuna, Sweden (2011) and Hveragerði, Iceland (2013), organized by the Nordic Centre of Excellence
Programme in Welfare Research.
Graduate (University of Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies): Comparative Studies of Welfare
States: Gender, Class and Politics
Faculty/Graduate Student Seminar (Gender Studies): Gender, Social Theory and the Possibility of Explanation
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Administrative and Committee Service______________________________________________________
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University:
Fellows’ Committee, 2014-15
Northwestern University:
Recruitment committee, 2016-17
Departmental review and self-study (Chair), 2015-16
Colloquium Committee (Co-Chair), 2013-14
Graduate Admissions Committee (Chair), Department of Sociology, 2012-13
Director, Program in Gender Studies, 2008-11
Graduate cluster admissions committee, Gender Studies, 2010-11
Graduate cluster admissions committee, Comparative and Historical Social Sciences, 2010-11
Graduate Advisory Committee, Department of Sociology, 2008-09, 2010-11
Graduate Admissions Committee (Chair), Department of Sociology, 2007-08
Ad hoc tenure committee, 2008
Co-Director, Program in Comparative and Historical Social Science, 2007-08, 2015-16, 2017-18
Department of Political Science, Comparative Politics search committee, outside member, 2007-08
Recruitment Committee, Department of Sociology, 2004-06
Recruitment Committee, Program in Gender Studies, 2004-06
Graduate Program on International and Intercultural Studies Committee, 2004-06
Department Chair, 2003-04
Center for International and Comparative Studies Advisory Board, 2003-06, 2007-08
Director, Center for Comparative and Historical Analysis, 2003-06
Gender [Women’s] Studies Advisory Committee, 1999-2006, 2007-11, 2013-14, 2016-17
Department of Political Science, Comparative Politics search committee, outside member, 2001-02, 2003-04
Graduate Placement, 2001-02
Ad Hoc tenure committee, 2001
School of Education and Social Policy, Program Review Committee, 2001
Director of Graduate Studies and Chair of Graduate Affairs Committee, 2000-01
Colloquium committee, 1999-2000
European University Institute:
Academic Council, elected representative of the Jean Monnet fellows, 1998-99
University of Wisconsin-Madison:
Chair, Curriculum Committee, 1996-97
Women's Studies Research Center Advisory Committee, 1996-97
Budget Committee, 1995-96
L & S Honors Program Faculty Advisor, 1995-97
Women Faculty Mentoring program, 1994-97
G.G. Herfurth Award Committee, 1994-97
Fundraising committee, 1994-96
Assistant Professor Recruitment Committee, 1994-95
Specialty area coordinator, Sociology of Gender, 1991 -94
Specialty area coordinator, Political Sociology, 1991-97
Small Grants Committee, 1987-93
Faculty Senate, 1989-91
Visitors Committee, 1987-91
Graduate Methods Requirement Review Committee, 1988-89
Undergraduate Curriculum Review Committee, 1986-87
Assignment Committee, 1985-87
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