- Professor Emeritus
Biography
Biography
Amy G. Mazur is Claudius O. and Mary W. Johnson Distinguished Professor in Political Science at Washington State University, and Associate Researcher at LIEPP- Sciences Po, Paris. Her research and teaching interests focus on comparative feminist policy issues and comparative methodology with a particular emphasis on France.
She is currently co-convening, with Isabelle Engeli, the Gender Equality Policy in Practice Network (GEPP). In the context of GEPP, she also co-convenes the Equal Employment network and the French Team. Their edited book on Corporate Board Gender Equality just came out with Oxford University Press (link to e-book). In the summer of 2022, she co-organized a GEPP workshop on Equal Pay at the University of Bielefeld in Germany thanks to funding workshop funding she had obtained in the amount of $15k.
In 2022, she completed a mixed-method study for the Organization of Security and Cooperation of Europe on Institutional Mechanisms for Gender Equality and is currently producing a practical guide. In Spring 2022, she gave a presentation on the study at a United Nations panel organized by the OSCE. Since, 2019 She has been lead editor of French Politics (see link above). Mazur is also member of the editorial boards of Policy and Politics, European Journal of Politics and Gender, Political Research Quarterly and Palgrave’s book series on Gender and Politics.
At WSU, she is the faculty advisor to the Political Science Honor’s Society and the Political Science Club. This year she is working on a special project on reforming the Political Science Major and is chair of the School’s Scholarship Committee.
From 2020-2022, she was an Associate Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University. From 1995 to 2011, she was co convener, with Dorothy McBride, of the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State. From 2006 to 2014 she was Co Editor of Political Research Quarterly, with Cornell Clayton. In 2015, she was a Fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, in 2009, a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study and the University of Warwick, in 2007-08 and in Fall 2001 the Marie-Jahoda Professor of International Feminist Studies at Ruhr University, Bochum. In 2005-06, she was an expert for the United Nations for the Expert Group Meeting on Equal Participation of Women and Men in Decision-making Processes and rapporteur of the final meeting report. She has also been consulted by the European Union, the World Bank and the Obama Administration. She has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, the European Science Foundation, the French Ministry of Social Affairs and the Norwegian National Science Foundation.
Education
- New York University, M.A. 1986, Joint Ph.D., 1992 (Politics and French Studies)
- Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques de Paris, 1986-87. Graduate work toward Ph.D.
- Colby College, B.A., 1984
- Université de Caen, France, 1982-1983
Research Interests
Comparative Feminist Policy; Women’s Policy Agencies/State Feminism; Feminist Policy Implementation; Methodology: Conceptualization and Mixed Methods, French Politics
Recent Publications
- Gender Equality and Policy Implementation in the Corporate World: Making Democracy Work in Business. Edited with Isabelle Engeli. Oxford University Press 2022
- The Oxford University Press Handbook on French Politics. Edited with Robert Elgie and Emiliano Grossman. 2016
- The Politics of State Feminism: Innovation in Comparative Research. With Dorothy McBride and the participation of Joni Lovenduski, Joyce Outshoorn, Birgit Sauer and Marila Guadagnini. Temple University Press. 2010. Chapter 10 translated into Croatian and published in Marjeta Šinko (ed.) 2015. Žene i politika:feministička politička znanost Zagreb: Biblioteka Politička misao
- Politics, Gender, and Concepts: Theory and Methodology. Edited with Gary Goertz. Cambridge University Press. 2008
- Theorizing Feminist Policy. London: Oxford University Press. 2002