Ann Shola Orloff

Ann Shola Orloff (born 1953) is an American sociologist, specializing in Comparative-Historical Sociology, Gender and Social Inequalities, Sociological Theory and Political Sociology. 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 B.A. from Harvard University in 1975 and a Ph.D. 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).[1]

                                                                      She lives in Illinois with her husband, Paul. She spends her summers in Oakland with her daughter Joanna, Son in law Chris, Granddaughter Hazel and Rowan Serna

References

  1. http://www.sociology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/ann-shola-orloff.html


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