The Gender Studies Advisory Committee
The Advisory Committee serves as the executive committee for the Gender Studies Program, and includes core and affiliate faculty members.
Nicola Beisel (Gender Studies & Sociology)
Nicholas Davis (Gender Studies & English)
Mary G. Dietz (Gender Studies and Political Science)
Jillana Enteen (Gender Studies)
Kasey Evans (English)
Lane Fenrich (History)
E. Patrick Johnson (Performance Studies)
Tessie Liu (Gender Studies & History)
Jeffrey Masten (Gender Studies & English)
Ann Orloff (Gender Studies & Sociology)
Alexandra Owen (Gender Studies & History)
Frances Freeman Paden (Gender Studies & Writing Program)
Amy Partridge (Gender Studies)
Helen Thompson (English)
Jane Winston (Gender Studies & French)
Program Directors
Ann Orloff (a-orloff@northwestern.edu)
(Director) is Professor of Sociology, Gender Studies and Political Science at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1985, and her B.A. from Harvard University in 1975. Orloff's areas of interest include politics, policy and gender; historical and comparative social science; and social and feminist theory. Her research focuses on gendered social policies and feminist politics in the developed world. Orloff is, most recently, the co-editor of Remaking Modernity: Politics, History and Sociology (with Julia Adams and Elisabeth Clemens; Duke, 2005) and the author of States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States (with Julia O'Connor and Sheila Shaver; Cambridge, 1999). She is at work on a manuscript, Farewell to Maternalism? State Policies, Feminist Politics and Mothers’ Employment, that examines shifts in the gendered logics of welfare and employment policies in the U.S. and other capitalist democracies and the implications of those shifts for feminism. Orloff continues to co-edit the journal she helped to found, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society. She is the President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee 19, on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy and is incoming President of the Social Science History Association. Orloff has held visiting positions at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), Sciences Po (Paris), and the Australian National University; she was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and has been the recipient of several fellowships, including from the German Marshall Fund, ACLS and AAUW. At Northwestern, in addition to Gender Studies, she works with the cluster in Historical and Comparative Social Science.
Amy Partridge (a-partridge@northwestern.edu) (Associate Director and Director of Undergraduate Studies) is a Lecturer in Gender Studies, where she also serves as Honors Coordinator. She received a Ph.D. in Performance Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies from Northwestern University. Partridge's teaching and research interests include topics in the history of medicine, sexuality studies, feminist science studies, gender and labor history, and cultural studies. A former Research Associate at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London, her research focuses on popular public health education campaigns, past and present. She is currently working on two book-length projects: Performing the Sanitary Idea in Victorian Britain, which examines the use of popular performance forms in public health campaigns targeted at working-class audiences in Victorian Britain, and a documentary history of the 1970s Women's Health Movement in the United States.
Program Assistant
Emily Gilbert (gender@northwestern.edu)
