Visiting Associate DAAD Professor of German and European Studies
Office: 438 Thomson Hall
Phone: (206) 543-6188
email: salang@u.washington.edu
Education:
PhD Department of Political Science, Free University Berlin
Dissertation:
1997 "Politische Oeffentlichkeit und Staat. Eine historische Politologie der oeffentlichen Sphaere zwischen Demokratisierung und Disziplinierung"
(Public Sphere and State. A History of a Civic Institution Between Democratization and Bureaucratic Rule)
magna cum laude (thesis)
summa cum laude (oral defense)
1986 to 1987 Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
1985 Department of Political Science, Free University Berlin
Diplomprüfung (M.A. equivalent), grade: A
1980 to1981 New School for Social Research, New York
Department of Political Science
1980 B.A. equivalent
Departments of Political Science, Sociology and
German Studies. Albert Ludwig Universität Freiburg, FRG
Academic Employment:
2002 - Visiting Associate DAAD Professor
University of Washington, Seattle
Joint appointment at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Dept. of Political Science and Dept. of Germanics.
1997 to 2002 Assistant Professor of Political Science
Department of Social and Political Sciences, John F. Kennedy-
Institute for North American Studies, Free University Berlin.
1995 to 1997 Lecturer in Comparative Politics
Institute for Political Science, University of Leipzig.
1987 to 1991 Postgraduate Researcher
Department of Political Science, Free University Berlin.
1986 to 1987 Visiting scholar, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley.
Non-Academic Employment:
1999 - 2002 Consultant and Speechwriter for the German Federal Secretary for Family, Youth, Women and Seniors.
1998 Co-Founder (with Prof. Birgit Sauer/University of Vienna) of ARETE (Institute for Research and Consulting in
the Social Sciences).
1997 - 1999 Evaluations for the European Commission of
Urban Pilot Projects.
1991 - 1994 Political Director/Director of Public Affairs of the
Deputy Mayor and Secretary for Labor Affairs and
Womens' Issues, Berlin, FRG.
Grants & Fellowships:
2002 Federal Department of Family, Seniors, Women and Youth: Research grant "Mobilization of Women Voters for the Parliamentary Election of 2002".
2001 Federal Parliament
Evaluation grant from the Federal Enquete-Commission "The Future of Civic Engagement".
University of Vienna, Austria:
Teaching Award for Excellence in Innovative Teaching Methods (webbased teaching collaboration with Dept. of Political Science, University of Vienna).
2000 Max Planck Society/Social Science Research Council
GAFOSS grant (German-American Frontiers of Research in the Social Sciences).
German Science Foundation: IPSA Grant.
Free University Berlin, Research Grant for a comparative study "Mobilizing Urban Communities" to the United States.
Fulbright scholar
Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
1998 Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Brenner-Foundation and
Hans-Bs?ckler Foundation
Conference grant: 'Model USA: Social Justice through Growing Employment?'
(joint project with Prof. Margit Mayer, Dr. Christoph Scherrer,
FU Berlin).
1996 Short term visiting fellow
Institute for Russian, Central and Eastern European Studies Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
1986 Hamburger Foundation for Social Science Research
Research grant.
1980 Fulbright Scholarship
Department of Political Science, New School for Social Research, New York .
Publications
Books:
Lang, Sabine, Politische Öffentlichkeit im modernen Staat (The Political Public in the Modern State), Baden-Baden: Nomos Publ. 2001.
Edited Volumes:
Kreisky, Eva / Lang, Sabine / Sauer, Birgit (eds.), EU.Geschlecht.Staat (EU.State.Gender), Wien: WUV Publ. 2001.
Lang, Sabine / Mayer, Margit / Scherrer Christoph (eds.), Jobwunder USA - Modell für Deutschland? (Employment Miracle US ˆ A Model for Germany?) Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot 1999.
Lang, Sabine / Sauer, Birgit (eds.), Wissenschaft als Arbeit - Arbeit als Wissenschaftlerin (Science as a Profession ˆ Professional Women Scientists), Frankfurt a.M.: Campus Publ. 1996.
Selected Articles:
"Lokale politische Kommunikation: Öffentlichkeit im Spannungsfeld nationaler und globaler Entwicklungen" (Local political communication: The political public under national and global pressure), in: Wolfram Esser/Barbara Pfetsch (Hg.), Politische Kommunikation in vergleichender Perspektive, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag (forthcoming)
"Frauenerwerbstaetigkeit in den USA im Zeichen neoliberaler Politik" (Women's Employment and Neoliberal Politics in the United States), in: Winfried Fluck/Welf Werner (eds.), Armut und Reichtum in den USA, Frankfurt: Campus Publ. (forthcoming)
"The State of Local Publics ˆ Media and Political Communication in the Age of Glocalization", in: Wolfram Esser / Barbara Pfetsch (eds.), Political Communication in Comparative Perspective, New York: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).
"Local Political Communication and Citizen Participation", in: Philippe Maarek/Gadi Wolfsfeld (eds.), Political Communication in a New Era ˆ A Cross-National Perspective , London/New York: Routledge 2003 (forthcoming).
"Globale Oeffentlichkeit, das Internet und Netzwerkbildung" (The Global Public Sphere, the Internet and Network Formation), in: Albert Scharenberg/Oliver Schmidtke (eds.), Das Ende der Politik? Globalisierung und der Strukturwandel des Politischen, Muenster: Westfaelisches Dampfboot (forthcoming)
"Die Foerderung von buergerschaftlichem Engagement in US-amerikanischen Staedten und Kommunen" (Building Civic Engagement in US-American Cities), in: Deutscher Bundestag (Hg.), Buergerschaftliches Engagement im internationalen Vergleich, Opladen: Leske + Budrich 2002.
"Unifying a Gendered State: Women in Post 1989 Germany", in: Stuart Taberner/ Frank Finlay (eds.), Recasting German Identity. Culture, Politics, and Literature in the Berlin Republic, London: Camden House 2002, pp. 157 ˆ 172.
"Reprivatisierungen im neoliberalen Geschlechterregime" (Reprivatization in Neoliberal Gender Regimes), in: femina politica, No. 2, 2001, pp. 91 ˆ 104.
"NGOs, Local Governance and Political Communication Processes in Germany", in: Political Communication, Vol. 17, No. 4, 2000, pp. 383 - 388.
"The NGOization of feminism: institutionalization and institution building within the German's women's movements", in: Bonnie G. Smith (ed.), Global Feminisms since 1945, New York/London: Routledge 2000, pp. 290 - 304.
"Affirmative Action contra Glass Ceilings - Frauenerwerbstätigkeit in den USA", in: femina politica, Nr. 2, 2000, pp. 71 - 81.
"La communication publique pendant la période précédant les élections. Lois, r?glements et pratiques en Allemagne", in: Philippe Maarek (ed.), La Communication Publique face aux Législations Èlectorales, Paris 1999 , pp. 84 - 93.
"Affirmative Action Maßnahmen für Frauen auf dem us-amerikanischen Arbeitsmarkt" (Affirmative Action for Women on the US Labor Market), in: Sabine Lang/ Margit Mayer/ Christoph Scherrer (eds.), Jobwunder USA - Modell für Deutschland? Münster: Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot 1999, pp. 127 - 148.
"Postmoderner Feminismus und politische Praxis" (Postmodern Feminism and Political Activism, with Birgit Sauer), in: Antje Hornscheidt / Gabriele Jähnert / Annette Schlichter (eds.), Kritische Differenzen - geteilte Perspektiven. Zum Verhältnis von Feminismus und Postmoderne, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1998, pp. 74 - 92.
"Zwischen Erwerbsarbeit und Eigenarbeit - Optionen für die Gestaltung der Arbeitsgesellschaft" (Between Labor Market and Voluntary Work ˆ Prospects for Social Change), in: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (ed.), Frauen und Arbeit im Kontext nachhaltiger Entwicklung, Leipzig 1998, pp. 18 - 26.
"The NGOization of Feminism", in: Joan W. Scott/Cora Kaplan/Deborah Keates (eds.), Transitions, Environments, Translations. Feminisms in International Politics, London: Routledge 1997, pp. 101 - 120.
"Politische Öffentlichkeit und Geschlechterverhältnis" (The Political Public and Gender Relations), in: ZIF-Humboldt-Universität (eds.), Politische Kultur - Demokratie - Geschlechterverhältnis, Berlin: trafo 1997, pp. 27 - 50.
"Öffentlichkeit und Privatheit in der neueren politischen Theorie - Eine Kritik an systemtheoretischen und Rational Choice Ansätzen" (The Public and the Private in Theoretical Perspective) , in: Gabriele Wilde /Brigitte Kerchner (eds.), Staat und Privatheit. Aktuelle und historische Studien, Opladen: Leske + Budrich 1997, pp. 107 - 134.
"Frauen und Demokratie. Öffentlichkeit und Geschlechter-verhältnis" (Women, Democracy and the Gendered Public Sphere), in: Rainer Schneider-Wilkes (ed.), Demokratie in Gefahr? Zum Zustand der deutschen Demokratie, Münster: Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot 1997, pp. 245 - 267.
"Mediale politische Kommunikation und Demokratie. Überlegungen zu Selektivität und Maskulinität der elektronischen Mediendemokratie" (Communication, Media, and Democracy. Selectivity and Masculinity in the Electronic Media Democracy), in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift; Sonderband 28/1997: Geschlechterverhältnis im Kontext politischer Transformation (Eva Kreisky/Birgit Sauer/eds.), Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, pp. 98 - 119.
"Femminismo postmoderno e azione politica" (with Birgit Sauer), in: Donne. Politica.Sull' orlo del tempo, Vol. 4(36) 1997, pp. 67 - 86.
"Geschlossene Öffentlichkeit. Paradoxien der Politikwissenschaft bei der Konstruktion des öffentlichen Raumes" (The Closed Public. Paradoxes in the Construction of the Public Sphere) , in: Eva Kreisky/Birgit Sauer (eds.), Das geheime Glossar der Politikwissenschaft, Frankfurt a.M.: Campus Publ. 1996, pp. 46 - 69.
"Geschlechterordnungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Erwerbstätigkeit als Regulierungsform des Geschlechterverhältnisses" (The Labor Market as a Regulatory Force of Gender Relations), in: Comparativ. Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte und vergleichenden Gesellschaftsforschung No. 4/1996, pp. 73 - 96.
"Wissenschaftlerinnen 2000: Berliner Erklärung zur Förderung von Frauen in der Wissenschaft" (Women Scientists 2000: Berlin Declaration for the Advancement of Women in the Sciences, with Birgit Sauer) , in: Lang/Sauer (eds.), Wissenschaft als Arbeit - Arbeit als Wissenschaftlerin, Frankfurta.M.: Campus Publ. 1996, pp. 349 - 379.
"Gleichstellungspolitische Wendezeit?" (Transformations of Gender Politics? with Birgit Sauer), in: Lang/Sauer (eds.), Wissenschaft als Arbeit - Arbeit als Wissenschaftlerin, Frankfurt a.M.: Campus Publ. 1996, pp. 12 - 30.
"Öffentlichkeit und Geschlechterverhältnis. Überlegungen zu einer Politologie der öffentlichen Sphäre" (Gender in the Public Sphere. Towards a Political Science Approach to the Public) , in: Eva Kreisky /Birgit Sauer (eds.):, Feministische Standpunkte in der Politikwissenschaft - Eine Einführung, Frankfurt a.M.: Campus Publ. 1995, pp. 83 - 121.
"Politische Öffentlichkeit und Demokratie. Überlegungen zur Verschränkung von Androzentrismus und öffentlicher Teilhabe" (The Political Public and Democracy), in: Biester et.al. (eds.), Demokratie oder Androkratie? Theorie und Praxis demokratischer Herrschaft in der feministischen Diskussion, Frankfurt a.M.: Campus Publ. 1994, pp. 201 - 226.
"Geschlechterforschung, Postmoderne und die Wissenschaft von der Politik" (Gender Studies, Postmodernism and Political Science), in: Prokla - Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft, Vol 24., No. 4, December 1994, pp. 643 - 668.
"Postmoderne und Politik. Kritische Anmerkungen zum subjektlosen Pluralismus der Gegenwart" (Postmodernism and Politics. Reflections on the Loss of Political Subjectivity), in: Frithjof Hager (ed.), Geschichte denken, Leipzig: Reclam Verlag 1992, pp. 163 - 182.
"Ist die Postmoderne tot?" (Is Postmodernism Dead?), in: Leviathan, Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft, Vol. 19, 1991, No. 1, pp. 55 - 67.
"Berlin, laboratoire d`observation" (Berlin as aLaboratory) in: Bourdieu, Pierre et.al. (eds.), liber, Journal for European Culture, 1990, No.6.
Professional Affiliations and Memberships:
German Political Science Association
Co-founder of the section "Politics and Gender" of the German Political Science Association
American Political Science Association
Caucus for Women in the Berlin Parliament
International Political Science Association
International Communication Association
Western Political Science Association
Conferences/Lectures:
2003
Lecture "Gender Equality in Europe and the United States"
EURO-Seminar University of Washington.
Lecture "Assessing Gendered Citizenship in Germany and the United States", Seattle Pacific University, School of Business and Economics, Seattle.
Lecture "The Political Public and the Modern State"
University of Washington, Dept. of Germanics/Center for West European Studies.
2002
Colloquium: "Changes in Local Publics in the United States and Germany", Colloquium Series Third Sector Politics, Berlin.
Paper "Les sites Internet des collectivités territoriales: quel content et quelle forme?"
Université de Paris XII, Centre d'Études Comparées en Communication Politique et Publique, Conference on 'Communication publique et nouveaux médias: Internet et alors?
Lecture "Gender as a Category in American Politics and Political Science", Lecture Series: Issues in North American Studies, Free University Berlin.
2001
Paper "Privacy Revisited - Neoliberal Reprivatization Processes".International Conference 'Gender in Political Science', Otto-Suhr-Institute Berlin.
Lecture "Women on the German and US Labor Markets",
Lecture Series on 'Poverty and Wealth in the United States',
John F. Kennedy-Institute Berlin.
Lecture "Reprivatization in Neoliberal Gender Regimes".
University of Hannover: Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Seminar.
2000
Paper "Gender Equality: Assessing Current Theories, Strategies, and Practices", Social Science Research Council / German-American Academic Exchange.German-American Frontiers of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Symposium for Young German and American Scholars, Atlanta.
Paper "Women in the German Public - Ten Years After Unification", Bristol University, Conference "Germany 2000".
Paper: "NGOs in the German Local Public - Democratizing Governance or Reshaping Corporatism?"
University of Washington, Seattle, Center for Communication and Civic Engagement, Conference "Communicating Civic Engagement".
Presentation "How Greenpeace and other NGOs put pressure on local government", University of Washington, Center for West European Studies - Teacher Workshop "Democracy and Civic Engagement in the 21st Century in Western Europe and the United States".
Lecture: "'Breaking through the glass ceiling?' - Women on the US labor market", Free University Berlin, Lecture Series "On Wealth and Poverty".
Paper "The NGOization of Local Political Communication", Humboldt-University Berlin, Conference of the Canadian Collaborative "CityCult".
Convenor (in collaboration with Dr. Birgit Sauer, University of Vienna" of panel "Mobilizing Communities. New Structures and Strategies of Political Communication" at theInternational Political Science Association Conference, Québec.
Paper "Local Government and Citizen Participation in Germany - A Study of "Best Practice" in Public Government Communication" at IPSA Conference, Québec.
Paper (with Philippe Maarek, Université de Paris XII) "Political Communication Towards the Third Millenium" at IPSA Québec.
1999
Center for German and European Studies/Harvard University
Invited Workshop Participant : "Gender Parity and the Liberal Tradition: Proposals and Debates in Europe and the United States".
Lecture: "Media democracy and the Public Sphere", Department of Sociology, Universität Freiburg.
Paper "Local Political Communication and Citizen
Participation". IPSA, Political Communication Section, Conference: "The State of the Arts in Political Communication Research" Quebec.
Paper "The NGOization of movements - towards new systems of governance?" University of Chicago. Conference on "Politics, Rights, and Representation in the United States,France and South Africa".
Paper "The Public is Political is Personal is Public - Gender as a Category in Political Science", University of Warsaw / University of Tübingen, Joint Gender Studies Conference at the University of Warsaw.
1998
Presentation and Workshop Convenor: "Between Labor Market and Volunteerism - Options for the Future of Labor Society".Heinrich-Böll-Foundation Conference: "Women and Work within Sustainable Development".
Organizer/Convenor of Workshop (with Prof. Eva Kreisky/Dr. Birgit Sauer/University of Vienna): "The Gendered State - Transformations of the State in Europe". German, Swiss and Austrian Associations of Political Science Joint conference: "Europe between Integration and Exclusion", Vienna.
Lecture "Gender Regimes and Democracy". Federal Organization of Critical Lawyers, Göttingen.
Conference Convenor (with Prof. Margit Mayer, Dr. Christoph Scherrer) "Model USA - Social Justice Through Higher Employment?" John F. Kennedy-Institute, Freie Universität Berlin, in cooperation with the Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley and the Amerika Haus Berlin.
1997
Lecture: "Gender as a Category of the Political".
VAKAVA, Finnische Graduate School in Political Science.
Paper 'La communication publique pendant la période précédant les élections. Lois, r?glements et pratiques en Allemagne'.
CECCOPOP, Centre d'Ètudes Comparées en Communication Politique et Publique, Université Paris XII, Conference "Public government communication and electoral regulation".
1996
Lecture "The German Public Sphere in Democratic Theory and Practice", Institute for Russian, Central and Eastern European Studies/Rutgers University.
Convenor (with Prof. Barbara Epstein, University
of California, Santa Cruz) of panel on "Feminist Theories of Postmodernism in the Study of Social Conflict", University of Chapel Hill /North Carolina, Tenth Berkshire Conference on Women's History.
Paper (with Birgit Sauer/University of Vienna) "Gender Politics and Feminist Movements" at Berkshire Conference, Chapel Hill.
1995
Organizer/Convenor (with Birgit Sauer) of Berlin Senate Conference "Science as Profession - The Profession for Female Scientists", Berlin.
Paper "The NGOization of Feminism", Institute for Advanced Study/Princeton, conference "Transitions, Environments, Translations: The Meanings of Feminism in Contemporary Politics".
Paper "Paradoxes in the Construction of the Public Sphere in Political Science", Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Conference "Secret Paradigms of Political Science".
1994
Paper "Feminism and Political Agenda: The Turn from a Politics of Subjectivity towards Subjective Politics", World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Potsdam.
Lecture "A Feminist Critique of Theories on the Public Sphere",
Humboldt-University, Berlin.
Courses
Taught Comparative Politics
Introduction to Comparative Politics
Political Institutions in the United States and the FRG
Government in Parliamentary and Presidential systems
Political Participation and Public Life in Germany and the United States
Citizenship and Political Identity: A Comparison of Germany, Austria and the United States (web based teaching collaboration with Dept. of Political Science, University of Vienna)
Bowling Alone? Citizenship, Political Communication and Participation in the United States
Gender Politics in Western Europe and the US
Gender Politics in East and West Germany
Introduction to German Politics, Culture and Society
East and West German Politics in Comparative Perspective
Germany after 1945
German Unification
Political Culture in the United Germany.
Germany in Europe
Politics & Media
States and Public Spheres
Public Relations, Media and the State
Political Communication of State Bureaucracies
Public Relations Techniques
Gender & Politics
Theories of Gender Politics
Backlash?Double Bind?Time Bind? Gender Discourses in the United States and Europe
Equality, Equity, Parity: Positive Discrimination Concepts in France, Germany and the United States
Antidiscrimination and Affirmative Action Policies in Germany and the United States
General
Political Utopias at the End of the 20th Century
Literature and Politics
Writing for Social Scientists
In development
Is There a European Public Sphere?
Political Communication in Local Publics ˆ A Comparative Perspective
Web-based teaching collaboration with Political Science Depts. at the Free University Berlin and the University of Vienna: Gender in Politics