Sabine Lang

Contact
- salang@uw.edu
- (206) 685-0668
- Thomson 208
- http://www.sabinelang.org/
About
Prof. Lang is not accepting new MA or PhD students for the 2025-2026 academic year
Sabine Lang is Professor of International and European Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. From 2016 to 2024, she directed the Center for West European Studies and the European Union Center, a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. From 2021 – 2024, she held the Jean Monnet Chair in Civil Society, Inclusion, and Diversity from the European Union. She is also Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Political Science, Germanics, and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. Her work is in comparative politics with a focus on civil society, the public sphere, the nongovernmental sector, and gender politics. Her current research focuses on gendered political representation in the European Union and on EU-level public engagement processes.
Education
- Free University Berlin, Ph.D., Department of Political Science, 1997
Selected Courses
- JSIS 478 Gender and Citizenship in the Global North
- JSIS 488 Special Topics in European Studies
- JSIS 498 Readings in International Studies: Civil Society and Political Publics in a Globalizing World
- JSIS 499 Undergraduate Research
- JSIS 593 Colloquium in International Studies
- JSIS A 301 Conflict and Cooperation in Contemporary Europe
- JSIS A 302 The Politics and Cultures of Europe
- JSIS A 494 Gender & Citizenship in the Global North
- JSIS B 365 World Cities
- POL S B 447 Advanced Seminar in Comparative Politics: Gender and Citizenship in the Global North
Selected Publications
Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas -Resisting Institutions
Publication type:
Book
Co-Editor(s):
Petra Meier and Birgit Sauer
Publisher:
Springer
Publication Date:
2023
Leading from Behind -Gender Equality in Germany During the Merkel Era
Publication type:
Book
Co-Editor(s):
Petra Ahrens, Phillip M. Ayoub
Publisher:
Routledge
Publication Date:
2023
Gender Equality in Politics -Implementing Party Quotas in Germany and Austria
Publication type:
Book
Co-Author(s):
Petra Ahrens, Katja Chmilewski and Birgit Sauer
Publisher:
Springer
Publication Date:
2020
Gendered Mobilizations and Intersectional Challenges -Contemporary Social Movements in Europe and North America
Publication type:
Book
Co-Editor(s):
Jill A. Irvine and Celeste Montoya
Publisher:
Rowman and Littlefield / ECPR Press
Publication Date:
2019
Consulting Publics in European Union Gender Policies -Organizing Echo Chambers or Facilitating Critical Norm Engagement?
Publication type:
Book Chapter
Published in:
Rethinking Gender Equality in Global Governance
Publication Date:
2019
Gender Equality in Post-Unification Germany -Domestic Diffusion and EU-Level Pressures
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
German Politics Volume 26, No. 4
Publication Date:
2017
Nongovernmental Organizations
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
International Encyclopedia of Political Communication
Publication Date:
2016
European Integration and the Politics of Scale -A Gender Perspective
Publication type:
Book Chapter
Co-Author(s):
Birgit Sauer
Published in:
Gendering European Integration Theory
Publication Date:
2016
Civil Society as a Public Sphere
Publication type:
Book Chapter
Published in:
The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector
Publication Date:
2016
NGOs, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere
Publication type:
Book
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date:
2014
Gendering Federalism—Federalizing Gender -Women's Agencies and Policies in German Multilevel Governance
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
German Studies Review, Volume 33, Issue 3
Publication Date:
2010
Contested Institutionalisation -Women’s Policy Agencies and Challenges to Gender Equality in Germany
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
German Politics, Volume 18, Issue 1
Publication Date:
2009
Politische Öffentlichkeit im modernen Staat -(The Political Public in the Modern State)
Publication type:
Book
Publisher:
Nomos Publishing
Publication Date:
2001