Current University Service

Director, Center for West European Studies, University of Washington, 2016 -.

Director, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, 2020-2021.

Chair, European Studies Program, University of Washington, 2017 -.

Henry M. Jackson School, University of Washington. Advisory Committee, Center for Western European Studies, University of Washington. 2002 -.

Henry M. Jackson School, University of Washington. Executive Committee, European Studies, University of Washington. 2004 -.


Past University Service

Director, Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies, University of Washington (2020 – 2021).

Chair, REECAS Program, University of Washington (2020 – 2021).

Associate Director, Henry M. Jackson School, University of Washington (2016-2017).

Chair, M.A. Program in International Studies (2013-2015).

Member, Faculty Advisory Council JSIS (2013-2016).


Other Service

Editorial Board: European Journal of Politics and Gender (2016 – ).

Editorial Advisory Board: Routledge Series on ‘Gender and Comparative Politics (2017 -).

Member of GEPP Network: Gender Equality Policies in Practice (2015 -).

GEPP Stream Leader “Political Representation” with Birgit Sauer (University of Vienna) & Petra Meier (University of Antwerp), (2018 -).

Editorial Board: Femina Politica. German Political Science and Gender (2012 – ).

Book Review Editor and Editorial Team Member: Politics and Gender – The Official
Journal of the Women and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (2013-2016).

Editorial Board: German Studies Review (2011-2016)

Committee Member: ECPG Lifetime Achievement Award. 2015.

Co-Founder: Women and Politics Section of the German Political Science Association.1992.

Co-Founder: Femina Politica (The leading German-speaking academic journal on gender and politics). 1994.

Recent reviewer for European Journal of Politics and Gender, International Journal of Feminist Politics, Journal of Civil Society, Development Policy, Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Comparative Political Studies, Political Communication, Femina Politica, Duke University Press, MacMillan Education, Routledge, Palgrave, Cambridge University Press.

Recent project reviewer for Leibnitz Society, Israel Science Foundation, German Academic Exchange Service, EWF Vienna, Flanders Research Council, Social Science Research Council.