Kathrin Zippel
Associate Professor of Sociology
Northeastern University

This smart, readable book raises the bar for principled feminist empirical engagement with 'hot button' gender policy issues such as sexual harassment.

Lisa D. Brush, author of Gender and Governance

• Winner, Best Book on Women and Politics, American Political Science Association (NU press release)
• Honorable Mention, the Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association (ASA release)

Professor Zippel studies public and social policy, gender politics, social movements, and welfare states, the European integration process, and globalization. In her recent research, she investigates the internationalization of science, focusing on the mobility of academics.

Current Activities

Zippel is an active participant in the Transatlantic Applied Research on Gender Equity Training (TARGET) 2008/2010, a collaboration of women's studies programs at Northeastern University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the QUING+ network in the European Union (Emanuela Lombardo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Spain; Mieke Verloo, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands; and Susanne Baer, GenderKompetenzZentrum Humboldt University, Berlin).

Zippel is also an affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, where she co-chairs the Gender, Politics and Society study group. She was a visiting scholar there in 2007-08.

Zippel has recently published in:

• Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and Society
• Policy Studies Review
• Forschungsjournal für Soziale Bewegungen [Journal of Social Movements, in German]

Background

Zippel received her master's degree in sociology from the Ohio State University and her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the European Union Center of Columbia University; an instructor in the School of International and Public Affairs, also at Columbia; a lecturer at the University of Bremen in Germany; and a visiting assistant professor of social studies at Harvard University.

Zippel has also received numerous fellowships:

• The European Union Center of Excellence (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• The Institute for European Politics and Integration (University of Athens)
• The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (Washington, D.C.,German Academic Exchange Program
• The European University Institute (Florence, Italy).

Zippel has taught courses on the European Union, gender equality politics, social policy, (transnational) social movements, and globalization.

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