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Lynne Haney

Associate Professor of Sociology; Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Ph.D. 1997 (sociology), California (Berkeley); M.A. 1992 (sociology); B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) 1990 (sociology), California (San Diego).

Office Address: 295 Lafayette St., Room 4122
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3:30PM - 4:30PM & Thursdays 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Phone: (212) 998-8373
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Areas of Research/Interest: Gender studies/feminist theory; political sociology; European studies; the welfare state; ethnographic methods.

External Affiliations: American Sociological Association; Sociologists for Women in Society; Social Science History Association; European Social Science History Association; Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Fellowships/Honors: American Sociological Association Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Sex and Gender, 1999; American Council of Learned Societies Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1999-2000; Faculty Fellow, The Remarque Institute, NYU, 1999-2000; Phi Beta Kappa Dissertation Award, 1996; Chancellor’s Dissertation Fellowship, 1996.

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Select Publications:
Families of a New World: Gender Politics and State Development in Global Context. Edited with Sonya Michel and Lisa Pollard (Routledge, In Press)
Inventing the Needy: Gender and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary (University of California Press, 2002.)
"Feminist State Theory: Applications to Jurisprudence, Criminology, and the Welfare State." Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 26. 2000.