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Assistant Professor Angelika von Wahl San Francisco State University
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Dr. Angelika von Wahl |
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Department of Political Science and Department of International Relations
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Born in Germany, Angelika von Wahl holds a Dr. Phil. in Political Science from the Free University Berlin in Germany (1995) and holds a tenure-track position at San Francisco State University. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Duke University during her graduate education and as been an Adjunct Associate Professor and German Academic Exchange Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1996-2000. Prof. von Wahl has published two books and co-edited one. Her research and teaching interests focus on Western Europe and the US, the European Union, welfare state politics, labor markets, public policy, and gender. The latest book is using recent comparative research on welfare states to analyze the relationship of gender and the state in terms of efforts to increase equality in Germany and the US. While Germany and the US are both advanced capitalist democracies it can be shown that their policies around gender equality differ markedly. This difference runs parallel to the specific welfare state and labor market regimes in both nations. The book provides the first systematic framework in comparative politics for the study of equal employment policies: Equal Employment Regimes: Equal Employment Opportunities for Women in Germany and the USA (Gleichstellungsregime: Beruflichche Gleichstellung von Frauen in der Bundesrepublik und den USA), Leske+Budrich, Leverkusen, 1999. Dr. von Wahl has also co-edited the volume Gender and Politics, Leske+Budrich, Leverkusen, 1999, that reviews the state of research on gender after the postmodern turn and investigates the future of gender as a category in the social sciences. Dr. von Wahl has also studied the perspectives and views of the descendents of German Jews in the United States. The book originating from this research is called Between Heritage and Holocaust (Zwischen Heimat und Holocaust, Das Deutschlandbild der Nachkommen deutscher Juden in New York), Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 1992. Dr. von Wahl has an active research agenda. She has written articles for refereed journals and has published chapters on public policy and gender. Her papers were given at national and international conferences such as APSA, ASA, IPSA, ECSA, and WPSA. Angelika von Wahl: Gleichstellungsregime: Beruflichche Gleichstellung von Frauen in der Bundesrepublik und den USA (Translated: Equal Employment Regimes: Equal Employment Opportunities for Women in Germany and the USA), (Leske+Budrich, Leverkusen, 1999) Angelika von Wahl & Christine Bauhardt (Eds.): Gender and Politics: "Geschlecht" in der feministischen Politikwissenschaft (Leske+Budrich, Leverkusen, 1999) Angelika von Wahl: Zwischen Heimat und Holocaust, Das Deutschlandbild der Nachkommen deutscher Juden in New York (Translated: Between Heritage and Holocaust, The perception of Germany among German Jewish Immigrants) (Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 1992).
Geschlechtergleichbehandlung an amerikanischen Universitäten "Equality versus Quality"? (1997) Equal Employment Policies for Women in the United States from a Comparative Perspective (1993)
Dr. von Wahl is currently working on a comparative research project on human rights abuse and reparations in Germany, Japan and the US trying to understand why and when governments get involved in the reparations debates and when and why victims are successful in their demands for symbolic and material “Wiedergutmachung”. Political Science: PLSI 250: Introduction to Comparative Politics PLSI 414: Western European Politics PLSI 417: Gender, Equality, and Politics: A Comparative Perspective PLSI 721: Comparative Welfare States International Relations: IR 305: International Human Rights |
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