Research
interests: My broad areas of inquiry include gender and other systems of inequality, German and European Studies, qualitative and feminist methods, and political sociology, especially social movements and the welfare state.
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Brief
biography: I received my PhD in Sociology from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where my dissertation, which examined the development of feminist movements in the former East Germany, earned the University's Best Dissertation in the Social and Behavioral Sciences and Education Award. I joined the sociology faculty at CSUF as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2006. In general, I am interested in how, when, and why oppressed groups organize to improve their status in society. For the last several years, my research has focused on women's movements in eastern Germany since the collapse of socialism there in 1989. This work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Most recently, I published a paper in the journal Social Politics that examines issues of scale, space, and place to reveal how a local feminist movement in one city in eastern Germany has both benefited from, and participated in, the downward scaling of women’s mobilizations after the immediate unification period.
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