Curriculum Vitae: MARILYN RUESCHEMEYER Division of Liberal Arts Watson Institute for International Studies Rhode Island School of Design Brown University 2 College St. 111 Thayer Street Providence, R.I.02903 Providence, R.I.02912 Tel. (401)454-6584 (401)863-2809 EDUCATION 1972-1978 Brandeis University--Ph.D., Sociology 1965-1966 University of Toronto--M.A., Sociology 1955-1959 Queens College--B.A., Sociology FIELDS OF INTEREST East European studies, sociology of art, gender,urban sociology PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 1994-2005 Professor, Rhode Island School of Design 2003-2004 Visiting Professor, International Studies, Watson Institute, Brown Univ. 1994-1996 Head, Dept. of History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences, and 1985- Division of Liberal Arts, Rhode Island 1988 School of Design 1987-1993 Associate Professor, Rhode Island School of Design 1987-2003 Adjunct Professor of Sociology, Brown University and of International Relations (Research) at the Watson Institute, Brown University 1996 – 2003: Chair Future of Germany Seminar Series, Watson Institute. Chair, European Politics Seminar Series, Watson Institute, 2004-Present, 1985-1992 Research Associate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Chair GDR Study Group 1986-Present Fellow, Russian Research Center, Harvard University 1980-1987 Assistant Professor, Rhode Island School of Design 1981-1987 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Brown University 1970-1977 Instructor, part-time, program of Continuing Education for Women, Extension Division of University of Rhode Island 1973 Contractor, for U.S. Department of Labor through Kirschner Associates, Albuquerque, New Mexico, on study of manpower services for veterans 1966-1967 Contract Research, organizational analysis of educational programs for Progress for Providence, through Kirschner Associates for OEO 1965-1966 Research Assistant, Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Research Foundation, Toronto, Canada 1965-66 Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto. 1 1959, 1961-62 Research Assistant, Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia Univ. 1960 Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS Professional Work and Marriage: An East-West Comparison, St.Antony’s,Oxford Univ. Macmillan Series London and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981, paperback 1986. Soviet Emigre Artists: Life and Work in the United States and the USSR, New York and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1985, (with Igor Golomshtok and Janet Kennedy as co-authors); also published as a special issue of The International Journal of Sociology, Spring/Summer 1985; paperback 1990. The Quality of Life in the German Democratic Republic: Changes and Developments in a State Socialist Society, (edited with Christiane Lemke) New York and London: M.E. Sharpe: 1989; also published as a special issue of The International Journal of Sociology, Winter 1988-1989. East Germany in Comparative Perspective, (edited with David Childs and Thomas Baylis) London and New York: Routledge, 1989. Berliner Journal Fuer Soziologie, (guest editor with Hildegard Nickel), January 1992. Women in the Politics of Post-Communist Eastern Europe (editor), New York and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1994, second revised edition, 1998. Participation and Democracy East and West: Comparison and Interpretations (edited with Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Bjorn Wittrock) New York and London:M.E.Sharpe, 1998. Left Parties and Social Policy in Postcommunist Europe (edited with Linda Cook and Mitchell Orenstein) Boulder, Colorado:Westview Press, 1999. Art and the State: The Visual Arts in Comparative Perspective (co-authored with Victoria Alexander) St.Antony’s,Oxford Univ./Palgrave.Macmillan, 2005 . ARTICLES “”Les nouvelles democraties europeennes de l’Europe de l’Est” in Manon Tremblay,ed., Femmes et parlements: un regard international, Montreal: Remue-menage, 2004. “Women in the Politics of Postcommunist Eastern Germany” in Eva Kolinsky and Hildegard Maria Nickel, eds., Reinventing Gender? Women and the Transformation of East Germany, London: Frank Cass Publishers,2003. 2 “Frauen und Politik in Osteuropa: 10 Jahre nach dem Zusammenbruch des Sozialismus,” Berlin Journal Fuer Soziologie, 1/ 2001, pp. 7-18. “Socialdemocratas y communistas en Alemania oriental” in Ilan Bizberg and Marcin Frybes, editors, Transiciones a la democracia Lecciones para Mexico. 2000. Calyarenna, pp. 277-304. "A Divided Left: On the Competition Between the Social Democratic Party and the Reformed Communists in Eastern Germany," in Peter Merkel,editor, The Federal Republic of Germany at Fifty, London:Macmillan, 1999, pp.123-134. “The Return of Left-Oriented Parties in Eastern Germany and the Czech Republic and their Social Policies,” (with Sharon Wolchik) in Left Parties and Social Policy in Postcommunist Europe, 1999, op.cit., pp. 109-143. “Social Democrats After the End of Communist Rule: Eastern Germany and the Czech Republic,” Sociological Analysis, Vol. 1, No.3, September 1998, pp.41-59. "The Social Democratic Party in Eastern Germany," in Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Marilyn Rueschemeyer, and Bjorn Wittrock, eds., Participation and Democracy East and West, London and New York:M.E.Sharpe, 1998. "Art, Artists' Associations, and the State in Norway," Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society,Vol.27,No.3, Fall 1997,pp.187-204. "Ongoing Transformations: Women in the Politics of Post-Communist Societies." NEWSNET. The Newsletter of the AAASS, March 1997. "GDR: Politics and the Arts", Encyclopedic History of Modern Germany," New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1996. "The Social Democratic Party in Eastern Germany: Political Participation in the Former German Democratic Republic After Unification," Social Science Center, Berlin (WZB), P95-002, 1995, 43 pages. "Women in East Germany," Women and Work: A Reader, edited by Paula J.Dubeck and Kathryn Borman, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press,1997,pp.460-61. "Frauen Osteuropas in der Politik. Der derzeitige Transformationsprozess," Berliner Journal Fuer Soziologie, 2/95, pp.223-230. "Participation and Democracy: Observations of Residential Communities of the Former GDR in Transition" in Peter Merkl,ed.,The Federal Republic at 45: Union Without Unity, London:McMillan and NYU, 1995,pp.152-167. 3 "Women in the Politics of Eastern Germany," in Women in the Politics of Post- Communist Eastern Europe, op.cit, pp.87-116. "Difficulties and Opportunities in the Transition Period," Ibid., pp. 225-237. "Women in East Germany: From State Socialism to Capitalist Welfare State," in Democratic Reform and the Position of Women in Transitional Economies, ed. Valentine M. Moghadam, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993, pp. 75-91. Revision of "East German Women in Transition," Program on Central and Eastern Europe Working Paper Series #12, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 1991. "Civil Society after the Collapse of Communism: Implications of the East German Experience for North Korea," (with Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Sang-in Jun) in A Search for a New Order in Unified Korea, Korean Political Science Association,1993,pp.364- 381. "Ethnic Place and Artistic Creation: Dilemmas of Sephardic Artists in Israel", The Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, Vol. 22, No.4, Winter 1993, pp. 341-354. "East Germany's New Towns in Transition: A Grassroots View of the Impact of Unification," Urban Studies, Vol.30, No.3, April 1993, pp. 495-506. "State Patronage in the German Democratic Republic: Artistic and Political Change in a State Socialist Society," Journal of Arts Management, Law, Vol. 20, No. 4, Winter 1991, pp. 31-55. Reprinted in Judith Balfe, ed., Paying the Piper: Causes and Consequences of Art Patronage, University of Illinois Press, 1993, pp. 209-233. "Sociology in the Former GDR" (with Hildegard Nickel), Footnotes, American Sociological Association, Vol. 19, No. 7, September 1991. "Participation and Control in a State Socialist Society: The German Democratic Republic," Harvard University Center for European Studies Working Paper Series #17, 1989; East-Central Europe, 1991, pp. 23-53. "Research on Social Life in the GDR," in Hans-Joachim Bernhard and Duncan Smith, eds, Remembering Rostock 1972-1990, New York: University Press of America, 1991, pp. 39-56. "Progress in the Distribution of Power: Gender Relations and Women's Movements as a Source of Change" (with Dietrich Rueschemeyer), in Rethinking Progress, edited by Jeffrey Alexander and Piotr Sztompka, London: Unwin and Hyman, 1990. "Women in the Two Germanies" (with Hanna Schissler), German Studies Review, DAAD Special Issue, 1990, pp. 71-85. 4 "The Private Side of State Socialism: Observation On Social Change in the GDR," German Politics and Society, Summer 1989, Issue 17, pp. 50-60. "The Jews of East Germany," Shma, Fall1989. "Entwicklungen der Familienstruktur in einer staatssozialistischen Gesellschaft: Die Deutsche Demokratische Republik", in Die "Postmoderne" Familie, 1988, ed. by Kurt Luscher, Franz Schultheis and Michael Wehspaun, Universitatsverlag Konstanz, 1988 pp. 282-296. "New Family Forms in a State Socialist Society: The German Democratic Republic", Journal of Family Issues, Vol. 9, No. 3, Sept. 1988, pp. 372-396. "Women's Many Places", review essay (with Lina Fruzzetti), in Contemporary Sociology, Winter 1988. "Socialist Transformation and Gender Inequality: Women in the German Democratic Republic and in Hungary" (with Szonja Szelenyi) in David Childs, Thomas Baylis, and Marilyn Rueschemeyer, eds., East Germany in Comparative Perspective, London and New York, Routledge: