Marilyn Rueschemeyer

Ph.D. in Sociology, Brandeis University
Professor of Sociology, Rhode Island School of Design;
Adjunct Professor of Sociology, Brown University;

Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
Watson Institute, Brown University
111 Thayer Street
Box 1970
Providence, R.I. 02912
401.863.2809
Marilyn_Rueschemeyer@Brown.edu

Research Interests
Women in political life in eastern Europe, urban sociology, art and the state.

Current Projects
Women members of post-communist parliaments. Chair the European Politics Seminar series at the Watson Institute; Member of the editorial collective of the journal Studies in Comparative International Development; Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, representing the American Sociological Association.

Selected Publications
Art and the State: The Visual Arts in Comparative Perspective (co-authored with Victoria Alexander), St.Antony's Oxford/Palgrave M. 2005.

Women in the Politics of Post-Communist Eastern Europe. New York and London: M.E.Sharpe Publishers 1998.

Participation and Democracy East and West (edited with Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Bjorn Wittrock). New York and London: M.E.Sharpe Publishers 1999.

Left Parties and Social Policy in Postcommunist Europe (edited with Linda Cook and Mitchell Orenstein). Westview Press, 1999.