Ann Shola Orloff

Professor of Sociology, Gender Studies and Political Science
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University
PhD, Princeton University, 1985
a-orloff@northwestern.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Ann Orloff's areas of interest include political sociology, historical and comparative sociology, gender studies, and social (including feminist) theory. Her research has focused on states, politics, and gender, particularly in the social policies of the developed world.

Orloff is the author of 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) and The Politics of Pensions: A Comparative Analysis of Canada, Great Britain, and the United States (Wisconsin, 1993); she is also co-editor of Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology with Julia Adams and Elisabeth Clemens (Duke, 2004) and The Politics of Social Policy in the United States with Margaret Weir and Theda Skocpol (Princeton, 1988). She is at work on a manuscript, entitled "Farewell to Maternalism? State Policies, Social Politics and Mothers’ Employment in the U.S. and Europe." The book will examine shifts in the gendered logics of welfare and employment policies in the United States and several other countries. Orloff continues to co-edit the journal she helped to found in 1994, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society. The journal is a forum for research on gender, politics, and policy, as well as feminist theory, from all areas of the world.

Orloff is affiliated with the Institute for Policy Research and the Center for International and Comparative Studies (CICS). She is the director of the Center for Comparative and Historical Analysis, located in CICS, and a participant in the new joint program in comparative and historical social science at Northwestern. She is also president of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 19 on Poverty, Social Welfare, and Social Policy. Orloff has held visiting positions at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and the Australian National University and has been the recipient of a German Marshall Fellowship and an award from the American Council for Learned Societies. Orloff is a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York in 2006-07.

Selected Publications

Books

Orloff, Ann S., with Julia Adams and Elisabeth Clemens, eds. 2005. Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology. Duke University Press. Subject of review symposium in International Journal of Comparative Sociology.

Orloff, Ann S., with Julia O'Connor and Sheila Shaver. 1999. States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and the United States. Cambridge University Press.

Orloff, Ann S. 1993. The Politics of Pensions: A Comparative Analysis of Britain, Canada and the United States, 1880s-1940. University of Wisconsin Press.

Orloff, Ann S., with Margaret Weir and Theda Skocpol, eds. 1988. The Politics of Social Policy in the United States. Princeton University Press.

Articles and Book Chapters

Orloff, A. S., with J. Adams and E. S. Clemens. 2006. “Time and Tide...:” Rejoinder to Abbott, Charrad, Goldstone, Mahoney, Riley, Roy, Sewell, Wingrove and Zerilli [essays on Remaking Modernity]. International Journal of Comparative Sociology 47:419-31.

Orloff, A. S. 2006. From Maternalism to “employment for all:” State policies to promote women’s employment across the affluent democracies. In The State after Statism, ed. J. Levy, 230-68. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. Available online as an IPR working paper.

Orloff, A. S., with J. Adams. 2005. Defending Modernity? High politics, feminist anti-modernism, and the place of gender. Politics and Gender 1:166-82.

Orloff, A. S., with J. Adams. 2005. Once more into the breach with Modernity: Rejoinder to Inglehart and Norris, and Young. Politics and Gender 1:500-08.

Orloff, A. S., with J. Adams and E. Clemens, eds. 2005. Social provision and regulation: Theories of states, social policies and modernity. In Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology, 190-224. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Available online as an IPR working paper.

Orloff, A. S. 2003. Markets not states? The weakness of state social provision for breadwinning men in the U.S. In Families of a New World, ed. L. Haney and L. Pollard. New York: Routledge.

Orloff, A. S., 2002. Women's employment and welfare regimes: Europe and North America. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.

Orloff, A. S. 2002. Explaining U.S. welfare reform: Power, gender, race and the U.S. policy legacy. Critical Social Policy 22:97-119.

Orloff, A. S., with R. Monson. 2002. Citizens, workers or fathers? Men in the history of U.S. social policy. In Making Men into Fathers, ed. B. Hobson. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Orloff, A. S. 2000. Ending the entitlements of poor mothers, expanding the claims of poor employed parents: Gender, 2000 race and U.S. social policy in an era of retrenchment. In Reinventing the Welfare State? Feminist Theory and Comparative Analyses of the U.S. and Europe, ed. N. Hirschmann and U. Liebert. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. (Italian translation appears in L'Assistenza Sociale, December 1999.)

Orloff, A. S. 1999. Motherhood, work and welfare: Gender ideologies and state social provision in Australia, Britain, Canada and the United States. In State/Culture, ed. G. Steinmetz, 291-320. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.

Orloff, A. S. 1998. The welfare state. In The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History, ed. W. Mankiller, G. Mink, M. Navarro, B. Smith, and G. Steinem. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Orloff, A. S. 1997. On Jane Lewis’s male breadwinner regime typology. Social Politics 4:188-202.

Orloff, A. S. 1997. The gender politics of citizenship: a comment on Louise Tilly's “Women, citizenship, and power.” International Labor and Working-Class History 52.

Orloff, A. S. 1993. Gender and the social rights of citizenship. American Sociological Review 58:303-28. Available online (JSTOR).