Ann S Orloff
Ann Shola Orloff is Professor of Sociology and Political Science and Board of Lady Managers of the Colombian Exposition Chair at Northwestern University. She received her B.A. from Harvard University in 1975 and her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1985. Orloff's areas of interest include political sociology, social policy, gender studies, global, transnational, historical and comparative sociology, and social and feminist theory. Her research focuses on gender, social policies and feminist politics. Orloff is 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), in addition to other books and articles in journals including Sociological Theory, Politics & Gender, Social Science History, Sociologica, Journal of Policy History, and American Sociological Review. Her work has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and German. She is at work on a manuscript, Toward a Gender-Open Future? Transformations in Gender, Global Capitalism and Systems of Social Provision and Regulation, in which she examines shifts in the gendered character of welfare and employment policies in the U.S., Sweden and other capitalist democracies and asks what are the implications for gender equality and for feminism. Orloff continues to co-edit the journal she helped to found, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society. She was the President of the Social Science History Association, 2009-2010, and hosted the annual conference in Chicago in November 2010. From 2002-10 she was president of RC 19, the Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy of the International Sociological Association. Orloff has held visiting positions at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), Sciences Po (Paris), the Institute for Future Studies (Stockholm), and the Australian National University (Canberra). She is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford in 2014-15, was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and has been the recipient of several other fellowships, including from the German Marshall Fund, ACLS and AAUW. At Northwestern, she has served as Director of Gender Studies and Chair of the Sociology Department.
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