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Full CV

Education:

1990 Diplom (M.A.), Sociology, Free University, Berlin

1997 Ph.D., Sociology, University of Connecticut

Research:

• Social Movements
• Gender
• Biographical Research
• Cultural Policy and Media Events

Selected Publications:

2003 Building Movement Bridges: The Coalition of Labor Union Women. Contributions to Sociology Series. Westport, CT: Praeger.

2003 Europas Töchter. Traditionen, Erwartungen und Strategien von Frauenbewegungen in Europa [Europe’s Daughters. Traditions, Expectations, and Strategies of Women’s Movements in Europe] (edited, with Ingrid Miethe). Opladen: Leske + Budrich.

2002 Feminist Movements in A Globalizing World - German and American Experiences. Harry & Helen Gray Humanities Program Series, Vol. 11 (edited, with Sara Lennox) Washington, DC: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies.

2003"Goethe and Buchenwald: Re-constructing German National Identity Through Weimar 1999. In: Why Weimar? Questioning the Legacy of Weimar from Goethe to 1999. ed. by Peter Daly and Hans Walter Frischkopf. Peter Lang Verlag. 93-106.

2000 "Developing Working Class Feminism: A Biographical Approach to Social Movement Participation“. In Self, Identity and Social Movements, ed. by Timothy Owens, Sheldon Stryker and Robert White. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 300-323.

1998 "Gender, Class and the Interaction Between Social Movements: A Strike of Day Care Workers“ (with Myra Marx Ferree). Gender & Society, 12 (6), 626-648.

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