KIMBERLY J. MORGAN

George Washington University 202-994-2809 (tel) Department of Political Science 202-994-7743 (fax) Monroe Hall Suite 440 [email protected] 2115 G Street NW Washington DC 20052

CURRENT POSITION

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University, 2013-present. Director of Graduate Studies, Fall 2010-2014. Associate Professor, 2008-2013. Assistant Professor, 2002-2008.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. January 2001 Princeton University M.A. June 1996 Princeton University B.A. June 1992 Northwestern University (summa cum laude)

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

European politics, American and comparative social policy, migration, gender and politics, health policy, public finance.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND HONORS

Honors Faculty Fellow, GWU, 2015-16. CCAS Enhanced Travel Award, 2015. Academic Advising Award, GWU, 2013-14. George Washington University Faciliting Fund, 2009-2010 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship, 2008-09 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigators Award, 2006-08 co-investigator ($275,000) National Science Foundation research grant, 2007-08, faculty associate ($130,525) ACES Working Paper Grant, European Union, 2006 ($500) Policy Research Scholar, George Washington Institute of Public Policy, 2003-05 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research, 2001-03 Lipset Award for the Best Comparative Dissertation, Society for Comparative Research, 2002 Best Dissertation Prize, Women and Politics Section of the APSA, 2001 Best Paper Prize, Women and Politics Section, Annual Meeting of the APSA, 2001 New York University, Institute of French Studies, postdoctoral fellow, 2000-01 Woodrow Wilson Society of Fellows award, Princeton University, 1998-2000 Center for Domestic and Comparative Policy Studies grant, Princeton University, 1999 Spencer Foundation, fellowship for education research, 1998 Chateaubriand scholarship, awarded by the French Government, 1997-98 Ecole Normale Supérieure, support for research in France, 1997-98 Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni, research award, 1997 Andrew C. Mellon Foundation, doctoral research grant, summer 1996 Council on Regional Studies, Princeton University, pre-dissertation grant, 1995. Princeton University, full graduate fellowship, 1994-1998. Phi Beta Kappa, 1991-92.

PUBLICATIONS

Books The Delegated Welfare State: Medicare, Markets, and the Governance of Social Policy. Co-authored with Andrea Louise Campbell (Oxford University Press 2011).

Working Mothers and the Welfare State: Religion and the Politics of Work-Family Policies in Western Europe and the United States (Stanford University Press 2006).

Edited volumes The Many Hands of the State: Theorizing Political Authority and Social Control. Co-edited with Ann Shola Orloff. (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming November 2016)

The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Social Policy. Co-edited with Daniel Béland and Chris Howard (Oxford University Press 2014).

“Maternalism and the Politics of Care: A Festschrift for Sonya Michel.” Co-edited with Kristin Ghodsee and Maria Bucur, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 22, 3 (Fall 2015).

Articles in refereed journals “Gender, Right-Wing Populism, and Immigrant Integration Policies in France, 1989-2012,” Forthcoming in West European Politics (2017). “Introduction: Sonya Michel’s Feminist, Comparative, and Historical Vision of Welfare, Care, and Social Reform,” Social Politic: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 22, 3 (Fall 2015): 271-5. “Veto-Player or Agent of Reform? Congress, Health Care Entitlements, and the Changing American State,” Revue Française de Science Politique 64, 2 (April 2014): 247-264. “Path Shifting in the Welfare State: Electoral Competition and the Expansion of Work-Family Policies in Western Europe,” World Politics 65, 1 (January 2013). “From Sick Man to Miracle: Explaining the Robustness of the German Labor Market during the Financial Crisis,” co-authored with Alexander Reisenbichler, Politics & Society 40, 4 (December 2012). “The Origins of Tax Systems: A French-American Comparison,” co-authored with Monica Prasad, American Journal of Sociology 114, 5 (March 2009): 1350-94. “Caring Time Policies: Trends and Implications,” Comparative European Politics 7, 1 (2009): 37-55. “The Political Path to a Dual-Earner/Dual-Carer Society: Pitfalls and Possibilities,” Politics & Society 36, 3 (September 2008): 403-420. Reprinted in Janet Gornick and Marcia Meyers, eds., Institutions for Gender Egalitarianism: Creating the Conditions for Egalitarian Dual Earner / Dual Caregiver Families (Verso Press, 2009), pp. 317-37. “Financing the Welfare State: Elite Politics and the Decline of the Social Insurance Model in America,” co-authored with Andrea Louise Campbell, Studies in American Political Development 19, 2 (Fall 2005): 173-95. “Federalism and the Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States,” co-authored with Andrea Louise Campbell, Comparative Political Studies 38, 8 (October 2005): 887-914. “The Production of Child Care: How Labor Markets Shape Social Policy and Vice Versa.” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 12, 2 (Summer 2005): 243-63. Special issue on gendering the varieties of capitalism, edited by Leslie McCall and Ann Shola Orloff. “The Politics of Mothers’ Employment: France in Comparative Perspective,” World Politics 55, 2 (January 2003): 259-89. “Paid to Care: The Origins and Effects of Care Leave Policies in Western Europe,” co-authored with Kathrina Zippel, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 10, 1 (Spring 2003): 49-85. “Forging the Frontiers Between State, Church, and Family: Religious Cleavages and the Origins of Early Childhood Care and Education Policies in France, Sweden, and Germany,” Politics and Society 30, 1 (March 2002): 113-48. “Gender and the Welfare State,” Comparative Politics 34, 1 (October 2001): 105-24. “A Child of the Sixties: The Great Society, the New Right, and the Politics of Child Care,” Journal of Policy History 13, 2 (March 2001): 215-50.

Other essays and reviews “Process Tracing and the Causal Identification Revolution,” forthcoming in New Political Economy. “Policing Markets: Campaigns against Irregular Migrant Labor in Western Europe,” LIEPP Working Paper, no. 54 (June 2016). “The Many Hands of the State,” with Ann Shola Orloff, Working Paper No. 14-001, Buffett Center, Northwestern University (December 2014). “Doomed from the Start: Why Obamacare’s Disasterous Rollout is No Surprise,” Foreign Affairs snapshot (web only), October 17, 2013. “Quelles politiques publiques pour concilier vie familiale et vie professionnelle?” Informations Sociales 177 (May-June 2013): 140-9. “How Germany Won the Euro Crisis: And Why Its Gains Could Be Fleeting,” with Alexander Reisenbichler (first author), Foreign Affairs snapshot (web only): June 20, 2013. “America’s Misguided Approach to Social Welfare,” Foreign Affairs (Jan/Feb 2013). “Using the Private Sector to Deliver Public Benefits.” With Andrea Louise Campbell, Scholars Strategy Network Key Findings (May 2012). “Delegated Governance in the Affordable Care Act,” with Andrea Louise Campbell, Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law 36, 3 (June 2011): 387-91. Review of Gendered Tradeoffs: Family, Social Policy, and Economic Inequality in Twenty-One Countries (Becky Pettit and Jennifer L. Hook), in Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal 31 (2010): 857-60. “La religión y los cimientos históricos de las políticas públicas dirigidas a madres y padres trabajadores,” Panorama Social no. 10 (January 2010), pp. 140-52. “Welfare: International Historical Perspectives,” in The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion (University of Chicago Press 2009), pp. 1029-30. “The Religious Foundations of Policies for Working Parents,” European Studies Forum 38, 1 (Spring 2008): 50-6. Review of The Welfare State That Nobody Knows (Christopher Howard) and Welfare Discipline (Sanford Schram), in Perspectives on Politics, vol. 6, no. 1 (March 2008): 177-78. “Caring Time Policies: Trends and Implications,” in APSA European Politics and Society Newsletter, vol. 6, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2007): 8-9. “Les politiques du temps de l’enfant en Europe occidentale: tendances et implications.” Recherches et Prévisions no. 83 (March 2006): 29-43. Book review of Généalogie de la morale familiale by Rémi Lenoir, in French Politics, Culture, and Society 24, 3 (Winter 2006): 140-2. “Policy Feedbacks and the European Welfare State,” in APSA European Politics and Society Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 2006): 8-10. “Child Care and the Liberal Welfare Regime: A Review Essay,” Review of Policy Research 20, 4 (December 2003): 743-48. Book review of Confessions of an Interest Group: The Catholic Church and Political Parties in Europe by Carolyn M. Warner, in French Politics, Culture, and Society (Fall 2001): 131-4.

Book chapters “Comparative Politics and American Political Development,” the Oxford Handbook of American Political Development, eds. Richard Valelly, Suzanne Mettler, and Robert Lieberman (2016). “The German Labor Market: No Longer the Sick Man of Europe,” co-authored with Alexander Reisenbichler, pp. 63-80 in Brigitte Unger, ed., The German Model – Seen By Its Neighbors (SE Publishing, 2015). “The Medicare Challenge: Clients, Cost Controls, and Congress,” Rob Hudson, ed., The New Politics of Old-Age Policy 3rd ed. (Johns Hopkins 2014). “The Delegated Welfare State,” co-authored with Andrea Louise Campbell, in James A. Morone and Daniel Ehlke, ed., Health Policy & Politics fifth ed. (Cengage: 2014). “Promoting Social Investment through Work-Family Policies: Which Nations Do It and Why,” in Nathalie Morel, Bruno Palier, and Joakim Palme, eds., Towards a Social Investment Welfare State? Ideas, Policies and Challenges (Bristol: Policy Press 2012), pp. 153-79. “The Politics of Time: Methodological and Theoretical Issues in Comparing and Explaining Work- Family Policies” in States, Families and Children: The ‘Time Politics’ of Child Care and School Education in Post-War Europe, edited by Karen Hagemann and Cristina Allemann-Ghionda (Berghahn Press 2011), pp. 51-71. “Medicare: Deservingness Encounters Cost Containment” in Rob Hudson, ed., The New Politics of Old- Age Policy 2nd ed. (Johns Hopkins 2010), pp. 254-74. “The Challenge of Faith,” with Sally Steenland in A Woman’s Nation – The Shriver Report (Center for American Progress). “Child Care and the Social Investment Model: Political Conditions for Reform,” pp. 45-54 in Nathalie Morel, Bruno Palier, and Joakim Palme, eds., What Future for Social Investment, Institute for Future Studies Research Report (Stockholm, Sweden, 2009). “The Religious Foundations of Work-Family Policies in Western Europe.” Pp. 56-90 in Religion, Class Coalitions, and Welfare States, edited by Kees van Kersbergen and Philip Manow (Cambridge University Press 2009). Reprinted in Families and Family Policies, eds. Chiara Saraceno, Jane Lewis, and Arnlaug Leira (Edward Elgar 2012). “The Political Path to a Dual-Earner/Dual-Carer Society: Pitfalls and Possibilities.” Pp. 317-37 in Janet Gornick and Marcia Meyers, eds., Institutions for Gender Egalitarianism: Creating the Conditions for Egalitarian Dual Earner / Dual Caregiver Families (Verso Press, 2009). “Towards the Europeanization of Work-Family Policies? The Impact of the EU on Policies for Working Parents.” Pp. 37-59 in Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union: Mobilization, Inclusion, and Exclusion, edited by Silke Roth (London, New York: Berghahn Books 2008). “Constricting the Welfare State: Tax Policy and the Political Movement against Government.” Pp. 27-50 in Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality, edited by Joe Soss, Suzanne Mettler, and Jacob Hacker (NY: Russell Sage, 2007). “Does Anyone Have a Libre Choix? Child Care and the Crisis of the Welfare State in France,” in Sonya Michel and Rianne Mahon, eds., Child Care Policy at the Crossroads: Gender and Welfare State Restructuring (Routledge Press 2002).

Works in Progress “The Politics of Ethnic Leveraging” (article in progress). “Electorates and Electoral Competition over the State and the Nation” (book chapter in progress).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

George Washington University Washington D.C. Courses: Politics of Western Europe (undergraduate), Women and Politics (undergraduate), Introduction to Comparative Politics (undergraduate), Immigration and Identity in Western Europe (undergraduate), The Politics of Immigration (undergraduate) Advanced Theories of Comparative Politics (doctoral pro-seminar), Comparative Social Policy (graduate).

New York University NYC Post-doctoral fellow, 2000-01 Course: Comparative Politics of the Welfare State

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS Christie Arendt (chair; in candidacy) Alexander Reisenbichler (chair; in candidacy) David Ware (chair) Brian Karlsson (chair, completed) Jeremy Streatfeild (chair; completed) Jeannette Haney (research committee, in candidacy) Dina Bishara (research committee; completed) Kerry Crawford (research committee; completed) Tonya Giannoni (research committee; completed) Jacob Haselswerdt (research committee; completed) Michelle Jurkovich (research committee; completed) Katie Kuhn (research committee; completed) Alanna Van Antwerp (research committee; completed) Jeffrey Becker (outside reader; completed)

MA THESES Amanda Spencer (ESIA, completed) Jennifer Windell (ESIA, completed)

UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Mariabruna Jennings (completed) Jonathan Robinson (completed) Nikolas Youngsmith (completed) Douglas Cohen (completed) Madeleine O’Brien (completed) Emily Bernstein (completed)

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

“The Many Hands of the State: Theorizing Political Authority and Social Control,” paper presented at the Centre d’Études Européenes, Institut d’Études Politiques, Paris, France, November 10, 2015. “Electoral Competition over State and Nation,” presented at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Berlin, Germany, July 13, 2015. “The Politics of Sociocultural Leveraging: Why Gender Became Central to Immigrant Integration Policy in France,” paper presented at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, October 23, 2014. “The Politics of Sociocultural Leveraging: Why Gender Became Central to Immigrant Integration Policy in France,” paper presented at the Dept. of Sociology, Rotterdam University, July 10, 2014. “Building the U.S. Welfare State: A Comparative Perspective,” presented at a workshop on the Emergence of European State Forms in Comparative Perspective, Center for Historical Enquiry & the Social Sciences, Yale University, May 8-10, 2014. “The Politics of Sociocultural Leveraging: Why Gender Became Central to Immigrant Integration Policy in France,” paper presented at the Penn-Temple European Studies Colloquium, April 4, 2014. “Labor Migration to the Rich (and Aging) Democracies: Past Lessons, Contemporary Conflicts, and Future Possibilities.” Presentation at the EU Conference on Gender and Generations, Florida International University, March 28-29, 2014. “The Politics of Sociocultural Leveraging: Why Gender Became Central to Immigrant Integration Policy in France,” paper presented at Columbia Women’s Seminar (Feb. 24, 2014) and Institute of French Studies at New York University (Feb. 25, 2014). “Inegalités homes-femmes: quoi faire?” Presentation at “Egalité, croissance et protection sociale,” Sciences Po, Paris, France June 20-1, 2013. “The Gendered Politics of Immigrant Integration Policy in France,” Max Planck-Sciences Po SCOOPS seminar, Paris, France, June 20, 2013. “Do We Need a New Approach to the Welfare State,” Keynote address at “Shifting to Post-Crisis Welfare States in Europe? Long Term and Short Term Perspectives,” Nordic Center of Excellence International Conference, Berlin, Germany, June 4-5, 2013. “Diverging Pathways: The Puzzling Gap between Comparative Politics and American Political Development,” Northwestern University, Comparative Historical Workshop, March 1, 2013. “The Future of the Welfare State in the U.S.,” presentation at George Mason University, February 12, 2013. “Pondering the Peculiar US Welfare State: (What) Can We Learn from an “Exceptional” System of Social Provision?” Presented at NordWel and REASSESS summer school, August 12-17, 2012, Helsinki, Finland. “Delegated Powers: The Mix of Public and Private Authority in the American Social Policy.” Presentation at the Miller Center, GAGE Series, University of Virginia, May 4, 2012. “Path-Shifting of the Welfare State: Electoral Competition and the Expansion of Work-Family Policies in Western Europe.” Presentation at UNC-Chapel Hill, December 2, 2011. “Path Shifting in the Welfare State: The New Politics of Work and Family,” presented at NordWel summer school, August 21-26, Sigtuna, Sweden. “The Feminization of Social Democracy,” Duke University, conference on the Future of Social Democracy in Europe, February 25, 2011. “The Delegated Welfare State: Medicare, Markets and American Social Policy.” Presentation at the College of William & Mary, November 5, 2010. Commentator on Steven Hill’s book, Europe's Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age, panel discussion at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, May 20, 2010. “Medicine: A Health Report,” interview on Dialogue, May 14, 2009. “The Delegated Welfare State: The Marketizing of American Social Provision in Comparative and Historical Perspective,” presented at the Comparative-Historical Social Science Workshop, Northwestern University, April 3, 2009. “Veto Player or Agent of Reform? Congress and the Politics of Social Security and Medicare.” Paper presented at The Seniors’ Entitlement Crunch: The Politics of Social Security and Medicare Reform, May 12, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Discussant of Paul V. Dutton’s book, Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, October 18, 2007. “Policy Feedbacks and the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003: The Political Ramifications of Policy Change,” presented at Johns Hopkins University, Sept. 28, 2007. “Political Perspectives on Financing Social Benefits,” presented at the National Academy of Social Insurance Annual Meeting, “For the Common Good: What Role for Social Insurance?” February 1-2, 2007, Washington D.C. “Gender and the Welfare State: The Religious Origins of Work-Family Policies in Western Europe.” Lansing-Lee Seminar in Global Politics, University of Virginia, October 27, 2006. Discussant for a panel on “Family Well-Being, Public Policy, and Economic Growth: Lessons from History and Insights for the Future.” National Academy of Social Insurance seminar, September 19, 2006, Washington D.C. “Taxation and the Politics of Poverty and Inequality in America: 1945 to the Present,” Comparative Politics Seminar, Northwestern University, April 25, 2005. “Conciliation vie professionnelle, vie familiale : leçons d’une lecture comparative,” presented at a conference-debate, Des politiques en direction des femmes et des familles, Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France, September 2, 2004. “The Origins of American Child Care Policy,” Bush Center for Child Development, Yale University, March 26, 2004. “Federalism, Risk-Pooling and Social Policy: The Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States,” with Andrea Campbell, paper presented to the seminar on the Politics of Public Policy, Yale University, April 24, 2003. “Federalism, Risk-Pooling and Social Policy: The Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States,” with Andrea Campbell, at the German Study Group, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, February 26, 2003. “The Politics of Child Care,” presentation at the Sawyer Seminar, “It’s Not Your Dad’s Welfare State Anymore: Institutions, Norms, and the Transformation of Welfare as We Know It,” University of Virginia, November 15, 2002. “The Contemporary Politics of Child Care in France: The Complex Political Legacies of Past Policies,” at “Wanted: A Child Care Policy for Canadians,” a conference sponsored by Carleton University and the Family Network of Canadian Policy Research Networks, Ottawa, Canada, October 18, 2002. “Paid to Care: The Origins and Effects of Care Leave Policies in Western Europe,” Economic Sociology Workshop, Princeton University, September 16, 2002. “Whose Hand Should Rock the Cradle? Comparative Perspectives on Child Care Policy and Politics,” Children’s Research Group, Yale University, April 25, 2002. “Women and the European Welfare State,” Council on European Studies, Yale University, January 29, 2002. “Gender and the Welfare State: French Child Care Policy in Comparative Perspective,” Institute of French Studies, New York University, April 3, 2001. “Church and State in the Origins of Child Care in Europe,” presentation at the Workshop on Gender and Inequality, Sociology Department, New York University, Nov. 17, 2000. “Religion and Gender in the Welfare State: The Making of Child Care Policy in Advanced Industrialized States,” invited presentation at the University of Pittsburgh, Oct. 26, 2000. “Church, State, and Family: The Making of ‘L'Exception Française’ in Child Care Policy,” presentation at the Center for European Studies, New York University, Oct. 6, 2000.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION

Discussant, Political Development Workshop, Oxford University, May 6-7, 2016. “Policing Markets: The Political Economy of Irregular Migrant Labor in Western Europe,” Paper presented at the 23rd International Conference of Europeanists, Philadelphia, PA, April 14-16. Discussant for “Democratic Dysfunction Part II: Institutional Dynamics,” at the 23rd International Conference of Europeanists, Philadelphia, PA, April 14-16. Commentator on The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality, author Justin Gest, George Mason University, September 24, 2015. “Comparative Politics and American Political Development,” opening remarks at the Political Development Workshop, University of Toronto, October 2-3, 2015. “The Politics of Sociocultural Leveraging: Why Gender Became Central to Immigrant Integration Policy in France,” 22nd International Conference of Europeanists, Paris, France, July 8-10, 2015. Discussant for “The European Future of Permanent Austerity? – New Approaches to Comparative Analysis of Welfare and Family Policies Including Old and New EU Member Countries,” 22nd International Conference of Europeanists, Paris, France, July 8-10, 2015. Discussant for “Fiscal Welfare in Europe: Dismantling or Reshaping Solidarity? Session 1,” 22nd International Conference of Europeanists, Paris, France, July 8-10, 2015. “Electoral Competition over State and Nation,”presented at the workshop on Party Competition and Voter Alignments in Times of Welfare State Transformation, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, June 18-19, 2015. “The Co-Constitution of Welfare States and Labor Migration Regimes,” presented at Moving Beyond the Silos: Women, Migration and the Work of Care, Migration Policy Institute, March 19-20, 2015. Commentator on two books, Rich People’s Movements and Making the Modern American Fiscal State, Social Science History Association Meeting, Toronto, Canada, November 6-9, 2014. “Electorates and Electoral Competition over the State and the Nation,” paper presented at the workshop on Party Competition and Voter Alignment in Times of Welfare State Transformations, Sciences-Po Paris, France, September 25-26, 2014. “Reassessing the American Welfare State: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” Chair and co-organizer, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington DC, August 28-31, 2014. Commentator for a book incubator workshop for Elisabeth Clemens, University of Chicago, May 30, 2014. “The Many Hands of the State,” presented at a Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, University of Chicago, May 15-17, 2014. “The Politics of Sociocultural Leveraging: Why Gender Became Central to Immigrant Integration Policy in France,” Council for European Studies Annual Meeting, Washington DC, March 14-16, 2014. Chair and Discussant, “The Many Hands of the State,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, Nov. 21-24, 2013. Chair and Discussant, “Toward a Fiscal Centered Perspective on the Welfare State,” Council on European Studies Annual Meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 25-27, 2013. Discussant, “Does Populism Have a Gender,” Council for European Studies Annual Meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 25-7, 2013. “The Gendered Politics of Immigrant Integration Policy in France,” Council on European Studies Annual Meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 25-7, 2013. “Path-Shifting of the Welfare State: Electoral Competition and the Expansion of Work-Family Policies in Western Europe.” Paper presented at “The Catholic Welfare State: Origins, Development, Institutional Legacies,” Vigoni Talks, Loveno di Menaggio, Italy, May 23-25, 2012. “The Politics of Family Migration: A Franco-Dutch Comparison,” paper presented at the 19th International Conference of Europeanists, March 22-24, 2012, Boston, MA. Discussant for a panel, “Toward a Social Investment Model?” 19th International Conference of Europeanists, March 22-24, 2012, Boston, MA. Chaired and organized two panels on “The Many Hands of the State,” Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, November 1-4, 2011, Boston, MA. “Work-Family Policies and the Social Investment Approach,” Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe, final meeting, Brussels, Belgium, June 15-17, 2011. “From Sick Man to Miracle: Explaining the Robustness of the German Labor Market during the Financial Crisis.” Co-authored with Alexander Reisenbichler, presented at workshop, “Germany and the Financial Crisis,” Georgetown University, December 3-4, 2010. Discussant for a panel on “Religion and the Welfare State,” and chair of “Power, Politics and Funding the Welfare State,” Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, November 18-21, 2010, Chicago, IL. Discussant for “Taxation and Redistribution in Historical Perspective,” Annual Meeting of the American Poitical Science Association, September 2-5, 2010, Washington DC. “The End of the Frozen Welfare State? Innovation in Work-Family Policies in Western Europe,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Poitical Science Association, September 2-5, 2010, Washington DC. “The End of the Frozen Welfare State? Innovation in Work-Family Policies in Western Europe.” Paper presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Council for European Studies, Montreal, Canada, April 15-17, 2010. Discussant and chair for “The European Welfare State” at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Council for European Studies, Montreal, Canada, April 15-17, 2010. “Child Care and the Social Investment Model: Political Conditions for Reform,” presented at Cornell University workshop, Making Welfare States Work, Sept. 25-6, 2009. “Exploring the Rube Goldberg Welfare State,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada, September 3-6, 2009. “Exploring the Rube Goldberg Welfare State,” paper presented at the International Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting of the Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC-19), Montreal, Canada, August 19-22, 2009. “The Delegated Welfare State: The Marketizing of American Social Provision in Comparative and Historical Perspective,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2-5, 2009. Discussant for Feminism, Gender, and Institutions, Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2-5, 2009, Chicago IL. “Caring Time Policies: Trends and Implications,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston MA, August 28-31, 2008. Chair and discussant for a panel, “The Politics of Non-State Social Provision,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston MA, August 28-31, 2008. Discussant for a panel, “The Historical Roots of Modern Retirement: Britain, France, and the Unitd States in Comparative Perspective.” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington DC, January 3-6, 2008. “Policy Feedbacks and the Politics of Medicare.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, August 30-September 2, 2007. “Pharmaceutical Politics in Coordinated Market Economies: Continuity or Change?” Presented at the Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, August 30- September 2, 2007. Discussant for a panel, “Expanding the Welfare State? The Reform of Long-Term Care in Europe and the United States.” Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, August 30-September 2, 2007. “Policy Preemption and the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act.” Paper to be presented at the 2007 International Conference: Law and Society in the 21st Century, Berlin, Germany, July 25-28, 2007. Discussant for a panel at “The German Half-Day Model: A European Sonderweg? The ‘Time Politics’ of Child Care, Pre School and Elementary School Education in Post-War Europe.” University of Cologne, Cologne Germany, March 1-3, 2007. “The Political Path to a Dual-Earner/Dual-Carer Society: Pitfalls and Possibilities,” presented at a Real Utopias Confgerence on Institutions for Gender Egalitarianism: Creating the Conditions for Egalitarian Dual Earner / Dual Caregiver Families, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 4-5, 2006. “The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 and the New Politics of Medicare,” co-authored with Andrea Louise Campbell, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 1, 2006. “The Origins of Tax Systems: A French-American Comparison,” co-authored with Monica Prasad, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Aug. 31, 2006. “The Politics of National Sales Taxation in France and the United States,” co-authored with Monica Prasad, presented at the 2006 Policy History Conference, Charlottesville, VA. Co-organized this panel on taxation with Andrea Campbell. “Religion and the Origins of Family Policies in Western Europe.” Presented at a conference on Religion and the Welfare State, the Max Planck Institute, Köln, Germany, May 5-6, 2006. “The Politics of Time: Methodological and Theoretical Issues in Comparing and Explaining Work- Family Policies,” Keynote address to the workshop, “Welfare State Regimes, Public Education and Child Care:Theoretical Concepts for a Comparison of East and West.” Potsdam, Germany, March 30-August 1, 2006. “Financing the Welfare State: US Tax Politics in Comparative Perspective,” presented at the International Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting of the Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC-19) Chicago, September 8-10, 2005. Discussant for a panel, “Public Child Care Expansion: Why Now?” at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., September 1-4, 2005. Discussant for the Women’s Caucus on Political Science APSA pre-conference, “Emerging Paradigms: Residual Issues,” Washington D.C., August 31, 2005. “The Tax Revolt and the Welfare State,” presented at “Making the Politics of Poverty and Inequality: How Public Policies are Reshaping American Democracy,” University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 21-22, 2005. “The Politics of Work-Family 'Reconciliation' Policy: Does the EU Matter?” paper presented at the conference on Gender Issues and Women’s Movements in the Enlarged European Union,” University of Pennsylvania, February 25-26, 2005. “Caring Time Policies: Trends and Implications,” presented at the International Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting of the Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC-19) Paris, France, September 2-4, 2004. “Religion and the Gendered Welfare State,” presented at a conference on Religion and the Welfare State, the Max Planck Institute, Köln, Germany, April 30-May 1, 2004. “Family Values Meets the Tax Code: The ‘Marriage Penalty’ and Other Gendered Impacts of American Tax Policy,” Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Research Network on Gender, State and Society Miniconference, Baltimore, MD, November 13, 2003. “Family Values Meets the Tax Code: The Strange Career of the Marriage Penalty as an Issue in American Politics,” 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, D.C., November 7, 2003. Presentor and participant in “Prospects for Women’s Equality in a Changing and Global Political Economy: Varieties of Capitalism, Labor and Gender,” workshop at Northwestern University, October 10-11, 2003, organized by Ann Shola Orloff. “The End of Social Solidarity? The Decline of the Social Insurance Model in America,” co-authored with Andrea Campbell, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 28-31, 2003. Nominated for the best paper award in the Politics and History section of the APSA. Discussant for “Looking Forward in Labor Policy and Gender: The Future of Parental Leave,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 28-31, 2003. Discussant and paper presenter at the International Sociological Association Annual Meeting of the Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC-19) Toronto, Canada, August 21-24, 2003. “Federalism and the Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States,” SASE’s Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 26-28, 2003. “Federalism and the Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States,” presented with Andrea Campbell at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Annual Meeting, Aspen Colorado, May 28- 31, 2003. “Federalism and the Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States,” at the Structure and Organization of Government Research Committee of IPSA annual meeting, Washington D.C., May 22-24, 2003. “Federalism, Risk-Pooling and Social Policy: The Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States,” presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, April 3-6, 2003. “Paid to Care: The Origins and Effects of Care Leave Policies in Western Europe,” co-authored with Kathrina Zippel, presented at the 13th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 14-16, 2002. Co-organized this panel, “Stagnation, Change, or More of the Same? Gender, Politics and Public Policy in European Welfare States.” Chaired panel, “Changes in Gender Politics in Europe,” at the 13th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 14-16, 2002. Discussant for “The Political Economy of Child Care: Japan in Comparative Perspective,” a conference at Yale University, January 18, 2002. “American Exceptionalism and the Welfare State,” Social Science History Association conference, Chicago, Nov. 15-18, 2001. “Conservative Parties and Working Women in France,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2001. Co-organized this panel, entitled “Women and Conservative Parties: Gender, Politics, and Public Policy in Europe and the United States.” “Cash for Care: The Origins and Impacts of the Private Model of Child Care Provision in the United States,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, Aug. 30- Sept. 2, 2001. “Unmasking the Hidden Welfare State: The Origins and Impacts of the Private Model of Child Care Provision in the U.S.,” Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Washington, D.C., June 8-9, 2001. “Globalization, Welfare State Retrenchment, and the Social Citizenship of Women in Western Europe,” Social Policy and Transformations of the European Welfare States, workshop of European Union Center of New York, March 2, 2001. “Women and the Multi-Tiered Politics of Citizenship in Europe,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 2000. Winner of the Best Paper Award, Women and Politics Section of the APSA Participant in the mini-conference on Women and Politics, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., Aug. 30, 2000. “The Politics of Child Care Policy in Comparative Perspective,” European Social Science History Association meeting, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Apr. 12-15, 2000. “French Child Care Policy and the Crisis of the Welfare State,” workshop on Gender and Welfare State Restructuring, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Apr. 12, 2000. “Women and Children in the Trente Glorieuses: Day Care Policy in Post-World War Two France,” American Historical Association conference, Chicago, Illinois, Jan. 6-9, 2000. “The Politics of Early Childhood Education in the French Third Republic,” Social Science History Association conference, Fort Worth, Texas, Nov. 11-14, 1999. “Race, Class, and the Politics of American Child Care,” conference on Comparative Research on Welfare States and Gender, Univ. Wisconsin Madison, Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 1997.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Steering Committee, Qualitative Transparency Deliberations (APSA), 2016 Visiting faculty, Laboratory for the Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP), Institut d’Études Politiques, Paris, France, November 2-13, 2015. APSA, Co-Chair of the program committee, 2016 annual meeting. APSA, European Politics and Society, President, 2015-16 APSA, European Politics and Society, division chair for the 2015 annual meeting. APSA, Organized Section on Public Policy, Best Paper committee, 2014-15. APSA Task Force, Perspectives on Politics editorship, 2014. Council for European Studies, Comparative Historical Workshop participant, March 13, 2014. Visiting Fellow, Max Planck-Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies, Paris, France, June-July 2013 APSA Presidential Task Force, “Getting to Yes in Politics,” European politics subgroup, 2013. Council for European Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship Committee, 2012-13 Member of the Scholars Strategy Network Visiting professor, summer 2012, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Visiting professor, summer 2009 and 2011, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands Council on European Studies book prize committee, 2011-12 APSA award committee for the Victoria Schuck award, best book on women and politics, 2010-11. APSA award committee for the best paper on French politics, 2010-11. Elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance, Fall 2006. Served on the National Academy of Social Insurance Policy Research Project, “Designing a Long-Term Care System for the Future,” 2003-05. Associate Editor, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, & Society 2008-2013. Editorial board member, French Politics, Culture and Society. Editorial Board member, Journal of Women and Public Policy. Program Committee Co-Chair, Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, 2010. Program Committee, Politics and History section, for the 2009 Annual Meeting of the APSA. Executive Committee, Politics and History Section, APSA, 2009-10. APSA Greenstone prize committee for the best book published in Politics and History, 2001-2.

LANGUAGES French: fluent. Dutch: intermediate.