Kathrin
Zippel’s areas of research are public and
social policy, gender politics, social movements,
and welfare states, the European Integration process,
and globalization. Her recent research investigates
the internationalization of science
focusing on the mobility of academics.
Zippel is involved in the Transatlantic
Applied Research on Gender Equity Training (TARGET)
2008/2010 funded by the European
Union-United States Atlantis Grant Program, US
Department of Education and European Commission.
This project is a collaboration of Women's Studies
programs at Northeastern University, the University
of Wisconsin-Madison, and QUING
network
in the European Union. The European partners
include Emanuela
Lombardo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid Spain),
Mieke
Verloo (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands),
and Susanne
Baer (GenderKompetenzZentrum Humboldt University,
Berlin).
Biography
Zippel received her Ph.D. from
the Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin
at Madison. Her research has been supported by
fellowships of the European
Union Center of Excellence at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison. She was a visiting fellow
in the Institute
for European Politics and Integration at the University
of Athens. She was also a fellow at the American
Institute for Contemporary German Studies,
in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the
German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD), and
a postdoctoral fellow in the European Union Center
of New York, in the Institute
for the Study of Europe at Columbia University,
as well as a visitor at the European
University Institute in Florence, Italy.
She affiliated
with the Minda
de Gunzburg, Center for European Studies at
Harvard University, co-chairs the Gender,
Politics and Society Study Group, and is currently
a visiting scholar there (2007/2008).
Her recent articles have appeared
in the Social Politics: International Studies
in Gender, State, and Society, Policy
Studies Review and the German Forschungsjournal
für Soziale Bewegungen [Journal of Social
Movements].
Zippel has taught courses
on the European Union, gender equality politics,
social policy, (transnational) social movements,
and globalization. |
