Education
Harvard University; Princeton University.
Harvard University; Princeton University.
She is a Professor of Sociology and Political Science and Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition Chair at Northwestern University. She is also editor of Social Politics, published by Oxford University Press, which she co-founded with Barbara Hobson (Stockholm University) in 1994. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1975 and a Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University in 1985.
She has been a visiting professor at the European University Institute, Sciences Po in Paris and the Australian National University.
Her books include Remaking Modernity: Politics, History and Sociology (co-editor with Julia Adams and Elisabeth Clemens. Duke, 2005) and States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States (with Julia O"Connor and Sheila Shaver. Cambridge, 1999).