Katja M. Guenther
Assistant Professor

AB Sociology 1997 Smith College
MA Sociology 2000 UC Davis
PhD Sociology 2006 University of Minnesota

Office: 1214 Watkins Hall
Phone: (951) 827-5853
Fax: (951) 827-3330
E-mail: katja.guenther@ucr.edu

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BIOGRAPHY

Katja M. Guenther specializes in gender and other social inequalities, qualitative epistemologies, European, German, and post-socialist studies, and political sociology, especially social movements and the welfare state. Her primary research project examines the development of local women's movements in eastern Germany since the collapse of state socialism in 1989. Her research has been supported by grants through the National Science Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Prior to joining UCR, Guenther held appointments as Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University, Fullerton, and as Visiting Scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

AWARDS

Faculty Fellow, California Campus Compact/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching 2007-2009

Best Dissertation in the Social and Behavioral Sciences and Education Award, University of Minnesota 2005-2006

Anna Welsh Bright Memorial Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement, University of Minnesota 2002

PUBLICATIONS

"Understanding Policy Diffusion across Feminist Social Movements: The Case of Gender Mainstreaming in Eastern Germany." In Politics & Gender 4(4): 1-27 (2008) 

"The Rise of the Child as an Individual in Global Society" in Sudhir Venkatesh and Ronald Kassimir's Youth, Globalization, and the Law Pp. 225-283 (With Elizabeth Heger Boyle, and Trina Smith) (2007)

"A Bastion of Sanity in a Crazy World: A Local Feminist Movement and the Reconstitution of Scale, Space, and Place in an Eastern German City" in Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 13 (4): 551-575 (2006)

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