Women in international organisations, specifically here in Geneva, are the subject of an important new study by Dr Jaci Leigh Eisenberg. Examining the role of American women in Geneva during the interwar period (1919-1939), Eisenberg finds that these women leveraged their “outsider” position to exercise a foreign policy that not only differed from that of the U.S. government but also had heretofore unreported impacts on the League of Nations. The study was conducted as part of a PhD at the Graduate Institute, Geneva and yielded, among other publications:
- American women and U.S. accession to the International Labour Organisation. 49th Parallel 33 (Winter 2014): 25-54.
- The status of women: a bridge from the League of Nations to the United Nations. Journal of International Organizations Studies 4, no. 2 (Fall 2013): 8-24.
Jaci Eisenberg’s scholarship is recognised on Wednesday 20th April at a ceremony at Villa Moynier where she will be formally received as laureate of the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) Award 2015 for the best PhD thesis in International Studies.
The Gender Centre warmly congratulates Jaci Eisenberg on this great achievement.