Ann Shola Orloff
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Professor; Ph.D., Princeton University in 1985. Orloff's areas of interest include political sociology, historical and comparative sociology, sociology of gender, and social (including feminist) theory. Her research has focused on states, politics and gender, particularly in the social policies of the developed world. Orloff is the author States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States (with Julia O'Connor and Sheila Shaver; Cambridge, 1999) and The Politics of Pensions: A Comparative Analysis of Canada, Great Britain and the United States (Wisconsin, 1993); she is also co-editor of Remaking Modernity: Politics, History and Sociology (with Julia Adams and Elisabeth Clemens; Duke, 2004) and The Politics of Social Policy in the United States (with Margaret Weir and Theda Skocpol; Princeton, 1988). She is at work on a manuscript entitled Farewell to Maternalism?: State Policies, Social Politics and Mothers’ Employment in the US and Europe, that examines shifts in the gendered logics of welfare and employment policies. Orloff continues to co-edit the journal she helped to found, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society; the journal is a forum for research on gender, politics and policy, as well as feminist theory, from all areas of the world. Orloff is also affiliated with the departments of Political Science and Gender Studies, the Institute for Policy Research, and the Center for International and Comparative Studies (CICS). She is the President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee 19, on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy. Orloff has held visiting positions at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and the Australian National University, and has been the recipient of a German Marshall Fellowship. In 2006-07 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City.
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1808 Chicago Ave., Room 201
Evanston, Illinois 60208-1330
Phone: (847) 491-3719
Fax: (847) 491-9907
a-orloff@northwestern.edu
Office Hours: By appointment.
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Historical & Comparative Workshop
RC19
Center for International and Comparative Studies
Center for Law, Culture, and Social Thought Institute for Policy Research
Courses N/A Soc 356-0 Sec. 20 (Spring 2006): Top
Current Courses: Fall Quarter 2007
Past Courses:
Sociology of Gender Syllabus
Gend-St 405-0 Sec. 20 (Spring 2006):
Advanced Feminist Theory
