Angelika von Wahl is Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Science and International Relations. Her research and teaching in comparative politics focus on welfare state politics, welfare regimes, labor markets, equal employment, law, and gender in Europe and the United States . She was a Fulbright student at Duke University, an Adjunct Professor and German Academic Exchange Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1996-2000. She was a Visiting Professor at the Social Science Center Berlin (WZB) in 2005.  

Wahl has published two books and co-edited one. She has written numerous articles for refereed journals and book chapters. Her latest article on the EU and equal employment was published in Social Politics (2005). An article on the comparative extent and direction of policy change and citizenship in Germany is forthcoming in West European Politics (May 2006). Other publications on the enlargement of EU towards Eastern Europe and current German politics are in the works. She is also working on a larger 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 debate and when and why victims are successful in their demands for symbolic and material "wiedergutmachung ". Part of this research will be published in Historical Injustice (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).


Books:
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.
Co-edited, Gender and Politics, Leske+Budrich, Leverkusen , 1999.
Between Heritage and Holocaust (Zwischen Heimat und Holocaust, Das Deutschlandbild der Nachkommen deutscher Juden in New York ), Peter Lang, Frankfurt , 1992.