Ann Shola Orloff

Professor - On Leave
1808 Chicago Avenue,
Room 201
Phone: (847) 491-3719
a-orloff@northwestern.edu
Office Hours: By Appointment

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest

Comparative-Historical Sociology
Gender and Social Inequalities
Theory
Political Sociology

Biography

Ann Orloff is Professor of Sociology, Gender Studies and Political Science, and Director of Gender Studies, at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1985, and her B.A. from Harvard University in 1975.

Orloff's areas of interest include political sociology, social policy, sociology of gender, historical and comparative sociology, and social and feminist theory. Her research focuses on gendered social policies and feminist politics in the developed world.

Orloff is, most recently, the co-editor of Remaking Modernity: Politics, History and Sociology (with Julia Adams and Elisabeth Clemens; Duke, 2005) and the author of 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). She is at work on a manuscript, Farewell to Maternalism? State Policies, Feminist Politics and Mothers’ Employment, that examines shifts in the gendered logics of welfare and employment policies in the U.S. and other capitalist democracies and the implications of those shifts for feminism.

Orloff continues to co-edit the journal she helped to found, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society. Orloff has held visiting positions at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), Sciences Po (Paris), and the Australian National University; she was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and has been the recipient of several fellowships, including from the German Marshall Fund, ACLS and AAUW.

At Northwestern, in addition to Gender Studies, she works with the cluster in Historical and Comparative Social Science.

Courses Taught

SOCIOL 356 / POL SCI 309: Sociology of Gender Syllabus
SOCIOL 439: Comparative and Historical Sociology Syllabus
SOCIOL 476: Comparative/Historical Approaches to Political Analysis Syllabus

Publications

Books

Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology (with Julia Adams and Elisabeth Clemens), Duke University Press 2005. Subject of review symposium in International Journal of Comparative Sociology.

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 University Press 1999.

The Politics of Pensions: A Comparative Analysis of Britain, Canada and the United States, 1880s-1940. University of Wisconsin Press 1993.

The Politics of Social Policy in the United States (with Margaret Weir and Theda Skocpol) Princeton University Press, 1988.

Articles and Book Chapters

In The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Welfare States, ed. S. Liebfried et al. 252-264. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

The Power of Gender Perspectives: Feminist Influence on Policy Paradigms, Social Science, and Social Politics (with B. Palier), Social Politics 16:405-412 2009.

Orloff, A.S. 2009. Gendering the Comparative Analysis of Welfare States: An Unfinished Agenda. In Sociological Theory 27(2009):317-343.

“Time and Tide...:” Rejoinder to Abbott, Charrad, Goldstone, Mahoney, Riley, Roy, Sewell, Wingrove and Zerilli (with J. Adams and E. S. Clemens), International Journal of Comparative Sociology 47:419-31, 2006.

From Maternalism to “employment for all:” State policies to promote women’s employment across the affluent democracies. In The State after Statism, ed. J. Levy, 230-68. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. Available online as an IPR working paper.

William Henry Exum Award

The intent of this prize is to honor the memory of William Henry Exum, a member of the Department of Sociology and the African American Studies Department, who died in 1986 at the age of 37. Exum was concerned with the quality of writing and research analysis in student papers. He was also interested in racial problems facing minority youths in higher education. This award was established as a means of continuing his goals of breaking barriers for all minorities.

The award submission deadline is April 27, 2012. All interested students should submit a 15-20 page paper, typed and double-spaced, on a topic dealing with race and ethnicity. Students are not limited to a sociological approach in preparing their submissions, nor is the award limited to sociology or social science majors.

The paper should include a cover sheet with the student's name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, year in school, and major.

Three copies of the essay must be submitted by the announced deadline to the Exum Award - Department of Sociology, 1810 Chicago Ave., Evanston Campus or one copy by email to sociol@northwestern.edu.

This award is open to all undergraduate students from all disciplines.

Upcoming Events

COLLOQUIUM: Myra Marx Ferree, Sociology, University of WI-Madison
May 17, 2012 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Culture and Society Workshop
May 17, 2012 • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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