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Angelika von Wahl

Angelika von Wahl

Associate Professor

Contact Info:
Office: HSS 260
Office Hours: No Office Hours for Fall 2009
Phone:(415) 338-2247
Email: avonwahl@sfsu.edu
Website: http://bss.sfsu.edu/avonwahl

Short Bio 2008:

Angelika von Wahl is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Science and International Relations at San Francisco State University. She has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Social Science Center Berlin (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin) in 2005 and 2008. She was an Adjunct Associate Professor and German Academic Exchange Professor (DAAD) in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1996-2000. Her comparative research focuses on the study of public policy and gender in Western Europe, the United States and the European Union. She has recently published in West European Politics, Social Politics, German Politics and Society and published book chapters on issues of welfare states, social movements, and transitional justice.

 

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), Verlag Leske+Budrich, Leverkusen, 1999.

 

Gender and Politics, (edited with Christine Bauhardt), Verlag 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.

 

Recent articles in refereed Journals or reviewed edited volumes:

 

 “From Family to Reconciliation Policy, How the Grand Coalition Reforms the German Welfare State,” German Politics and Society, Autumn 2008.

 

“The Politics of Reparations: Why, When and How Democratic Governments Get Involved” in: Manfred Berg and Bernd Schäfer (eds.), Historical Justice in International Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 2008.

 

 “EU Enlargement and Gender Equality in Employment” in: Silke Roth (ed.), Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union, Mobilization, Inclusion, Exclusion (Berghahn Books) 2008.

 

2007 “The Reconciliation of Family and Employment in Germany and the Future of Reform” (transl. Title: Gebären und arbeiten: Die Zukunftsfähigkeit deutscher Familien- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik) co-authored with Sibylle Hardmeier, in: Jürgen Kocka (ed.), Die Zukunftsfähigkeit Deutschlands, WZB-Jahrbuch, 315-337, Berlin: edition sigma.

 

2006 “Gender Equality in Germany, Comparing Policy Change Across Domains” West European Politics, 29 (3): 461-488. May 2006.

 

2005 “Liberal, conservative, social democratic or …European? The European Union as Equal Employment Regime,” Social Politics, Vol. (12); 67-95.

 

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