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1214 WATKINS HALL
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Guenther, Katja M

Assistant Professor of Sociology

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Sociology


Biography

 

Former Institution

California State University, Fullerton

Degrees

BA Sociology 1997

Smith College

MA Sociology 2000

University of California, Davis

PhD Sociology 2006

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Awards

2007-2009. Faculty Fellow, California Campus Compact/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Program in Service Learning for Political Engagement.
2005-6. Best Dissertation in the Social and Behavioral Sciences and Education Award, University of Minnesota.
2004-5. National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. (#0402513), with Robin Stryker
2004-5. Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School of the University of Minnesota.
2003-4. Graduate Research Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
2002. Anna Welsh Bright Memorial Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota.
2001. Fellow, Midwest Center for German and European Studies' Trans-Atlantic Institute.
1998-9. Graduate Studies Fellow, Graduate School of the University of California, Davis.


Research Area

Political sociology; post-socialist states and societies; social movements; the welfare state and comparative social policy; gender; German and European studies; qualitative methods; social problems and social change.

Publications

“The Politics of Names: Rethinking the Methodological and Ethical
Significance of Naming People, Organizations, and Places.” Qualitative Research. Forthcoming.

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

Boyle, Elizabeth Heger, Trina Smith, and Katja M. Guenther. "The Rise of the Child as an Individual in Global Society." In Youth, Globalization, and the Law, edited by Sudhir Venkatesh and Ronald Kassimir. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Pp. 255-283. (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." Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 13(4). Pp. 551-575. (2006)

"A Case Study of Eastern German Feminist Organizing, 1990-2000." Journal of Women's History 15(3). Pp. 139-43. (2003)

Hartmann, Douglas, Paul Croll, and Katja M. Guenther. "Rethinking the Race Relations Problematic in American Sociology." The American Sociologist 34(3). Pp. 20-55. (2003)