Amy Mazur

Amy G. Mazur is CO Johnson Distinguished Professor in Political Science at Washington State University and an Associate Researcher at the Centre d’Etudes Européennes at Sciences Po, Paris. Her research and teaching interests focus on comparative feminist policy issues with a particular emphasis on France. She is currently co convening, with Isabell Engeli, the Gender Equality Policy in Practice Network (GEPP).  In the context of GEPP, she also co convenes the Equal Employment issue group and the French Team. From 1995 to 2011, she was co convener, with Dorothy McBride, of the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State. From 2006 to 2014 she was Co Editor of Political Research Quarterly, with Cornell Clayton. She is Associate Editor of French Politics and member of the editorial boards of Politics and Gender, Palgrave’s book series on Gender and Politics and Routledge’series on Comparative Gender Politics.  In 2015, she was  a Fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, in 2009,  a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study and the University of Warwick, in 2007-08 and in Fall 2001 the Marie-Jahoda Professor of International Feminist Studies at Ruhr University, Bochum.  In 2005-06, she was an expert for the United Nations for the Expert Group Meeting on Equal Participation of Women and Men in Decision-making Processes and rapporteur of the final meeting report. She has also been consulted by the European Union, the World Bank and the Obama Administration. She has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, the European Science Foundation, the French Ministry of Social Affairs and the Norwegian National Science Foundation.

Her recent publications include the following:

The Oxford University Press Handbook on French Politics. Edited with Robert Elgie and Emiliano Grossman. 2016.

The Politics of State Feminism: Innovation in Comparative Research. With Dorothy McBride and the participation of Joni Lovenduski, Joyce Outshoorn, Birgit Sauer and Marila Guadagnini. Temple University Press. 2010.

“Does Feminist Policy Matter in Post Industrial Democracies?: A Proposed Analytical Roadmap”.In Policymaking: Insights and Challenges from Gender and Other Equality Perspectives. Edited by Emanuel Lombardo, Petra Meier and Mieke Verloo. Special Issue for Journal of Women, Politics and Policy. 38 (1) 64-83. 2017.

Dialogue: New Directions on Studying Women’s Movements. Politics, Groups and Identities. 2016. 4 (4): 652-701. Central discussion article: “Comparative Strength of Women’s Movements Over-time: Conceptual, Empirical and Theoretical Innovations.”  With Dorothy McBride and Season Hoard (652-76) with response essays by Anne Costain, Amrita Basu, Aili Tripp, Erica Townsend-Bell and Silke Roth.

“Mainstreaming Gender in Comparative Policy Research Courses” The Case of Comparative Public Policy.” In Mainstreaming Gender in the Teaching and Learning of Politics. Edited by Brooke Ackerly and Liza Mügge. PS: Political Science. 49 (3) 562-5. 2016.