Position(s) at the Institute

Professor, International Relations/Political Science

Graduate Institute Deputy Director

Profile

PhD, The American University
Faculty member since 2009 and Deputy Director since 2010, Professor Prügl previously taught at Florida International University, where she co-directed the Miami-Florida European Union Centre of Excellence. Her research focuses on gender politics in global governance and feminism in International Relations. In addition to having published numerous journal articles, book chapters and anthologies, she is the author of The Global Construction of Gender: Home-based Work in the Political Economy of the 20th Century (Columbia University Press, 1999) and Transforming Masculine Rule: Agriculture and Rural Development in the European Union (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2011). Currently, she serves as associate editor of Politics and Gender, a journal of the Women and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Prügl also heads the Graduate Institute’s new research programme on Gender and Global Change. 

Areas of expertise

• Agriculture, land and rural development
• Civil society, social movements, Trade Unions, NGOs
• European Union
• Gender, women and public policies
• Globalisation
• Governance, local and international
• International organisations, UN
• Europe Western and Central

• Gender in International Relations with a particular concentration on global governance
• women’s labor
• The European Union and constructivism

Selected publications

Books

• Transforming Masculine Domination: Agriculture and Rural Development in the European Union. University of Michigan Press. Forthcoming.
• International Relations: One World, Many Voices. With Paul Kowert. New York: Pearson 2013 Longman. Forthc.
• Diversity and the European Union. Co-edited with Markus Thiel. New York: Palgrave, 2009.
• The Global Construction of Gender: Home-Based Work in the Political Economy of the 20th Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

Articles

• "Diversity Management and Gender Mainstreaming as Technologies of Government," Politics & Gender, volume 7, issue 01, (2011): 71-89.
• "Feminism and the Postmodern State: Gender Mainstreaming in European Rural Development," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 32, 2 (Winter 2010).
• "Does Gender Mainstreaming Work? Feminist Engagements with the German Agricultural State," International Feminist Journal of Politics 11, 2 (May 2009): 174-195.
• "Gender Orders in German Agriculture: From the Patriarchal Welfare State to Liberal Environmentalism," Sociologia Ruralis 44, 4 (October 2004): 349-372.
• "Feminism and Constructivism: Worlds Apart or Sharing the Middle Ground?" with Birgit Locher, International Studies Quarterly 45, 1 (March 2001): 111-129.
• "Gender and War: Causes, Constructions, and Critique," Perspectives on Politics 1 (June 2003): 335-342.
• "Feminism and Constructivism: Worlds Apart or Sharing the Middle Ground?" with Birgit Locher, International Studies Quarterly 45, 1 (March): 111-129.

Book Chapters

• "Gendered Knowledge in the Postmodern State: The Case of Agricultural Trade Liberalization in Europe." In The Role of Gender Knowledge and Knowledge Networks in International Political Economy, eds. Brigitte Young and Christoph Scherrer. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag. 2010.
• "Gender and European Integration," with Birgit Locher. In European Integration Theory, eds. Antje Wiener and Thomas Diez. Oxford University Press, 2009.
• "Gender and the Making of Global Markets: An Exploration of the Agricultural Sector." In Global Governance: Feminist Perspectives, eds. Shirin M. Rai and Georgina Waylen. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
• "Gender and EU Politics." In The Handbook of European Union Politics, eds. Knud Erik Jørgensen, Mark A. Pollack and Ben Rosamond. Sage Publications, 2007.

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