Prof. Kathrin Zippel

Kathrin Zippel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology. Her general areas of interest include political sociology and gender with specific research interests in social movements, (welfare) states, the law, the social dimension of the European Integration process, and globalization.

Her book, The Politics of Sexual Harassment: A Comparative Study of the United States, the European Union, and Germany, has appeared with Cambridge University Press (February 2006). Her research has been supported by fellowships of the Luxembourg Income Study, the German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD-AICGS), a post-doctoral fellowship in the European Union Center of New York, at Columbia University, by the European Union Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the European University Institute at Florence, Italy. She has been affiliated with the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, was a visiting fellow in the Institute for European Politics and Integration at the University of Athens, and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington, D.C.

She has taught courses on the European Union, gender equality politics, social policy, (transnational) social movements, and globalization. Her articles have appeared in the Social Politics:International Studies in Gender, State, and Society , Policy Studies Review and the German Forschungsjournal fur Soziale Bewegungen[Journal of Social Movements].