• Introductory Sociology

• Comparative Social Organization

• States and Political Institutions

• Senior Seminar: Global Transformation of Elites and Democracy

• Gender and Society

• Brussels: From Capital to Eurocapital

• Introduction to the Institutions of the European Union

• Political Science and Sociology Honor’s Thesis supervision

• Forum (Guest Lecture series with international speakers)

• Inleiding tot Genderstudies

• Interest Representation and Diversity in Europe

Ph.D.Sociology , 1985 University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.

Doctoral fellow, Sociology, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, 1973-75, 1978-81

M.A. Sociology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, U.S.A., 1973

B.A. English Literature/Sociology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, U.S.A., 1972

Comparative European public policy and organisation, especially in the area of equal opportunities policies including mainstreaming, diversity and social movements. Ongoing projects include

• Regional Parliaments, democratic representation and Euro-fitness  for the European Project
• Transnational Social Movement Organizations and Trans-issue Alliances in Europe

• ‘Building Velvet Triangles: Gender and Informal Governance’(2004) in Informal Governance and the European Union edited by Simona Piattoni and Thomas Christiansen, London: Edward Elgar 76-93.
• ‘European Gender Mainstreaming: Promises and Pitfalls of Transformative Policy Making’ (2003) Review of Policy Research, 20:1 65-88.
• Going for Gender Balance. (2002). Best seller CoE 2002.