MARILYN RUESCHEMEYER

risd connection: Professor Emerita of Sociology, History, Philosophy + Social Sciences (HPSS); taught at RISD 1977-2005

courses:
Introduction to Social Theory
Sociology of Dance
Women in Comparative Perspective
Video Sociology
Housing in America
Women in Socialist and Developing Countries

about her work: As an HPSS professor for more than 20 years, Rueschemeyer examined the sociology of cities and housing, art and the state, and, particularly, political life in post-communist Eastern Europe. Within that scope she focused on women’s social, economic and political roles, often in a comparative (East vs. West) framework. Rueschemeyer’s recent work considers women’s participation in the new realm of electoral politics in Eastern European countries.

professional appointments + activities
Visiting professor, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; affiliated investigator for Political Economy and Development program, 2003-04
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, board of directors, 1996-99
American Sociological Association, chair of Committee on International Sociology, 1993-96, and East European liaison, 1985-present
Adjunct professor of Sociology, Brown University, 1987-2005
Fellow, Harvard University Russian Research Center, 1986-present

selected publications
A Divided Left: The Social Democratic Party and the Reformed Communists in Eastern Germany in The Federal Republic of Germany at Fifty, Peter Merkl, editor. NYU Press, 1999
Participation and Democracy East and West: Comparison and Interpretations, co-editor with Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Bjorn Wittrock. M.E. Sharpe, 1998
Art, Artists’ Associations, and the State in Norway in Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society 27:3, Fall 1997
Participation and Democracy: Observations of Residential Communities of the Former GDR in Transition in The Federal Republic of Germany at Forty-five: Union Without Unity, Peter Merkl, editor. NYU Press, 1995
Women in the Politics of Post-Communist Eastern Europe, editor. M.E. Sharpe, 1994
Professional Work and Marriage: An East-West Comparison. Palgrave Macmillan, 1981

education
Brandeis University, PhD in Sociology, 1978
University of Toronto, MA in Sociology, 1966
Queens College, BA in Sociology, 1959

selected honors + awards
International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) Research Grant, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 1997
Visiting Fellow, Stockholm Institute of Soviet and East European Economics, 1992
IREX Research Grant, former German Democratic Republic, 1991, 1992
Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1990
RISD Faculty Development Grant, 1995, 1984