Kimberly J. Morgan

George Washington University 202-994-2809 (tel)

Department of Political Science 202-994-7743 (fax)

Monroe Hall Suite 400 kjmorgan@gwu.edu

2115 G Street NW

Washington DC 20052

CURRENT POSITION

Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, The George Washington University.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. January 2001 Princeton University

M.A. June 1996 Princeton University

B.A. June 1992 Northwestern University (summa cum laude)

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

European politics, American and comparative social policy, women and politics, health policy and politics.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND HONORS

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship, 2008-09

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigators Award, 2006-08 co-investigator ($275,000).

National Science Foundation research grant, 2007-08, faculty associate ($130,525).

ACES Working Paper Grant, European Union, 2006 ($500).

Policy Research Scholar, George Washington Institute of Public Policy, 2003-05.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research, 2001-03.

Lipset Award for the Best Comparative Dissertation, Society for Comparative Research, 2002.

Best Dissertation Prize, Women and Politics Section of the APSA, 2001.

Best Paper Prize, Women and Politics Section, Annual Meeting of the APSA, 2001.

New York University, Institute of French Studies, postdoctoral fellow, 2000-01.

Woodrow Wilson Society of Fellows award, Princeton University, 1998-2000.

Center for Domestic and Comparative Policy Studies grant, Princeton University, 1999.

Spencer Foundation, fellowship for education research, 1998.

Chateaubriand scholarship, awarded by the French Government, 1997-98.

Ecole Normale Supérieure, support for research in France, 1997-98.

Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni, research award, 1997.

Andrew C. Mellon Foundation, doctoral research grant, summer 1996.

Council on Regional Studies, Princeton University, pre-dissertation grant, 1995.

Princeton University, full graduate fellowship, 1994-1998.

Phi Beta Kappa, 1991-92.

Book

Working Mothers and the Welfare State: Religion and the Politics of Work-Family Policies in Western Europe and the United States (Stanford University Press, 2006).

Articles in refereed journals

“The Political Path to a Dual-Earner/Dual-Carer Society: Pitfalls and Possibilities,” Politics & Society, 36, no. 3 (September 2008): 403-20.

“Les politiques du temps de l’enfant en Europe occidentale: tendances et implications.” Recherches et Prévisions no. 83 (March 2006): 29-43.

“Financing the Welfare State: Elite Politics and the Decline of the Social Insurance Model in America,” co-authored with Andrea Louise Campbell, Studies in American Political Development 19, 2 (Fall 2005): 173-95.

“Federalism and the Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States,” co-authored with Andrea Louise Campbell, Comparative Political Studies 38, 8 (October 2005): 887-914.

“The Production of Child Care: How Labor Markets Shape Social Policy and Vice Versa.” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 12, 2 (Summer 2005): 243-63. Special issue on gendering the varieties of capitalism, edited by Leslie McCall and Ann Shola Orloff.

“The Politics of Mothers’ Employment: France in Comparative Perspective,” World Politics 55, 2 (January 2003): 259-89.

“Paid to Care: The Origins and Effects of Care Leave Policies in Western Europe,” co-authored with Kathrina Zippel, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 10, 1 (Spring 2003): 49-85.

“Forging the Frontiers Between State, Church, and Family: Religious Cleavages and the Origins of Early Childhood Care and Education Policies in France, Sweden, and Germany,” Politics and Society 30, 1 (March 2002): 113-48.

“Gender and the Welfare State,” Comparative Politics 34, 1 (October 2001): 105-24.

“A Child of the Sixties: The Great Society, the New Right, and the Politics of Child Care,” Journal of Policy History 13, 2 (March 2001): 215-50.

Short essays and reviews

“The Religious Foundations of Policies for Working Parents,” European Studies Forum 38, 1 (Spring 2008): 50-6.

Review of The Welfare State That Nobody Knows (Christopher Howard) and Welfare Discipline (Sanford Schram), in Perspectives on Politics, vol. 6, no. 1 (March 2008): 177-78.

“Caring Time Policies: Trends and Implications,” in APSA European Politics and Society Newsletter, vol. 6, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2007): 8-9.

Book review of Généalogie de la morale familiale by Rémi Lenoir, in French Politics, Culture, and Society 24, 3 (Winter 2006): 140-2.

“Policy Feedbacks and the European Welfare State,” in APSA European Politics and Society Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 2006): 8-10.

“Child Care and the Liberal Welfare Regime: A Review Essay,” Review of Policy Research 20, 4 (December 2003): 743-48.

Book review of Confessions of an Interest Group: The Catholic Church and Political Parties in Europe by Carolyn M. Warner, in French Politics, Culture, and Society (Fall 2001): 131-4.

“Welfare: International Historical Perspectives,” forthcoming in the Chicago Companion to the Child (University of Chicago Press).

Book chapters

“Constricting the Welfare State: Tax Policy and the Political Movement against Government.” In Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality, edited by Joe Soss, Suzanne Mettler, and Jacob Hacker (NY: Russell Sage, 2007).

“Towards the Europeanization of Work-Family Policies? The Impact of the EU on Policies for Working Parents.” Forthcoming in Gender Issues and Women's Movements in the Enlarged European Union, edited by Silke Roth (London, New York: Berghahn Books).

“The Religious Origins of Work-Family Policies in Western Europe.” Forthcoming in Religion, Class Coalitions, and Welfare State Regimes, edited by Kees van Kersbergen and Philip Manow (Cambridge University Press).

“The Politics of Time: Methodological and Theoretical Issues in Comparing and Explaining Work-Family Policies” Forthcoming in States, Famlies and Children: The ‘Time Politics’ of Child Care and School Education in Post-War Europe, edited by Karen Hagemann and Cristina Allemann-Ghionda (Berghahn Press).

“The Political Path to a Dual-Earner/Dual-Carer Society: Pitfalls and Possibilities,” Forthcoming in Janet Gornick and Marcia Meyers, eds., Institutions for Gender Egalitarianism: Creating the Conditions for Egalitarian Dual Earner / Dual Caregiver Families (Verso Press).

“Does Anyone Have a Libre Choix? Child Care and the Crisis of the Welfare State in France,” in Sonya Michel and Rianne Mahon, eds., Child Care Policy at the Crossroads: Gender and Welfare State Restructuring (Routledge Press 2002).

Current papers in progress

“The Origins of Tax Systems: A French-American Comparison,” with Monica Prasad, conditional acceptance, American Journal of Sociology.

“Caring Time Policies: Trends and Implications,” forthcoming, Comparative European Politics.

“Policy Feedbacks and the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003: The Political Ramifications of Policy Change,” with Andrea Campbell, revise and resubmit.

“The Medicare Modernization Act and the New Politics of Medicare,” with Andrea Louise Campbell.

“Explaining Pathways of Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry: A Test of Two Hypotheses.”

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

George Washington University Washington D.C.

Assistant Professor of Political Science, 2001-present

Courses: Politics of Western Europe (undergraduate), Women and Politics (undergraduate), Introduction to Comparative Politics (undergraduate), Comparative Politics (graduate), Comparative Social Policy (graduate).

New York University NYC

Post-doctoral fellow, 2000-01

Course: Comparative Politics of the Welfare State

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

“Veto Player or Agent of Reform? Congress and the Politics of Social Security and Medicare.” Paper presented at The Seniors’ Entitlement Crunch: The Politics of Social Security and Medicare Reform, May 12, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Discussant of Paul V. Dutton’s book, Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, October 18, 2007.

“Policy Feedbacks and the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003: The Political Ramifications of Policy Change,” presented at Johns Hopkins University, Sept. 28, 2007.

“Political Perspectives on Financing Social Benefits,” presented at the National Academy of Social Insurance Annual Meeting, “For the Common Good: What Role for Social Insurance?” February 1-2, 2007, Washington D.C.

“Gender and the Welfare State: The Religious Origins of Work-Family Policies in Western Europe.” Lansing-Lee Seminar in Global Politics, University of Virginia, October 27, 2006.

Discussant for a panel on “Family Well-Being, Public Policy, and Economic Growth: Lessons from History and Insights for the Future.” National Academy of Social Insurance seminar, September 19, 2006, Washington D.C.

“Taxation and the Politics of Poverty and Inequality in America: 1945 to the Present,” Comparative Politics Seminar, Northwestern University, April 25, 2005.

“Conciliation vie professionnelle, vie familiale : leçons d’une lecture comparative,” presented at a conference-debate, Des politiques en direction des femmes et des familles, Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France, September 2, 2004.

“The Origins of American Child Care Policy,” Bush Center for Child Development, Yale University, March 26, 2004.

“Federalism, Risk-Pooling and Social Policy: The Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States,” with Andrea Campbell, paper presented to the seminar on the Politics of Public Policy, Yale University, April 24, 2003.

“Federalism, Risk-Pooling and Social Policy: The Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States,” with Andrea Campbell, at the German Study Group, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, February 26, 2003.

“The Politics of Child Care,” presentation at the Sawyer Seminar, “It’s Not Your Dad’s Welfare State Anymore: Institutions, Norms, and the Transformation of Welfare as We Know It,” University of Virginia, November 15, 2002.

“The Contemporary Politics of Child Care in France: The Complex Political Legacies of Past Policies,” at “Wanted: A Child Care Policy for Canadians,” a conference sponsored by Carleton University and the Family Network of Canadian Policy Research Networks, Ottawa, Canada, October 18, 2002.

“Paid to Care: The Origins and Effects of Care Leave Policies in Western Europe,” Economic Sociology Workshop, Princeton University, September 16, 2002.

“Whose Hand Should Rock the Cradle? Comparative Perspectives on Child Care Policy and Politics,” Children’s Research Group, Yale University, April 25, 2002.

“Women and the European Welfare State,” Council on European Studies, Yale University, January 29, 2002.

“Gender and the Welfare State: French Child Care Policy in Comparative Perspective,” Institute of French Studies, New York University, April 3, 2001.

“Church and State in the Origins of Child Care in Europe,” presentation at the Workshop on Gender and Inequality, Sociology Department, New York University, Nov. 17, 2000.

“Religion and Gender in the Welfare State: The Making of Child Care Policy in Advanced Industrialized States,” invited presentation at the University of Pittsburgh, Oct. 26, 2000.

“Church, State, and Family: The Making of ‘L'Exception Française’ in Child Care Policy,” presentation at the Center for European Studies, New York University, Oct. 6, 2000.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION

Discussant for a panel, “The Historical Roots of Modern Retirement: Britain, France, and the Unitd States in Comparative Perspective.” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington DC, January 3-6, 2008.

“Policy Feedbacks and the Politics of Medicare.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, August 30-September 2, 2007.

“Pharmaceutical Politics in Coordinated Market Economies: Continuity or Change?” Presented at the Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, August 30-September 2, 2007.

Discussant for a panel, “Expanding the Welfare State? The Reform of Long-Term Care in Europe and the United States.” Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, August 30-September 2, 2007.

“Policy Preemption and the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act.” Paper to be presented at the 2007 International Conference: Law and Society in the 21st Century, Berlin, Germany, July 25-28, 2007.

Discussant for a panel at “The German Half-Day Model: A European Sonderweg? The ‘Time Politics’ of Child Care, Pre School and Elementary School Education in Post-War Europe.” University of Cologne, Cologne Germany, March 1-3, 2007.

“The Political Path to a Dual-Earner/Dual-Carer Society: Pitfalls and Possibilities,” presented at a Real Utopias Confgerence on Institutions for Gender Egalitarianism: Creating the Conditions for Egalitarian Dual Earner / Dual Caregiver Families, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 4-5, 2006.

“The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 and the New Politics of Medicare,” co-authored with Andrea Louise Campbell, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 1, 2006.

“The Origins of Tax Systems: A French-American Comparison,” co-authored with Monica Prasad, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Aug. 31, 2006.

“The Politics of National Sales Taxation in France and the United States,” co-authored with Monica Prasad, presented at the 2006 Policy History Conference, Charlottesville, VA. Co-organized this panel on taxation with Andrea Campbell.

“Religion and the Origins of Family Policies in Western Europe.” Presented at a conference on Religion and the Welfare State, the Max Planck Institute, Köln, Germany, May 5-6, 2006.

“The Politics of Time: Methodological and Theoretical Issues in Comparing and Explaining Work-Family Policies,” Keynote address to the workshop, “Welfare State Regimes, Public Education and Child Care:Theoretical Concepts for a Comparison of East and West.” Potsdam, Germany, March 30-August 1, 2006.

“Financing the Welfare State: US Tax Politics in Comparative Perspective,” presented at the International Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting of the Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC-19) Chicago, September 8-10, 2005.

Discussant for a panel, “Public Child Care Expansion: Why Now?” at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., September 1-4, 2005.

Discussant for the Women’s Caucus on Political Science APSA pre-conference, “Emerging Paradigms: Residual Issues,” Washington D.C., August 31, 2005.

“The Tax Revolt and the Welfare State,” presented at “Making the Politics of Poverty and Inequality: How Public Policies are Reshaping American Democracy,” University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 21-22, 2005.
“The Politics of Work-Family 'Reconciliation' Policy: Does the EU Matter?” paper presented at the conference on Gender Issues and Women’s Movements in the Enlarged European Union,” University of Pennsylvania, February 25-26, 2005.

“Caring Time Policies: Trends and Implications,” presented at the International Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting of the Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC-19) Paris, France, September 2-4, 2004.

“Religion and the Gendered Welfare State,” presented at a conference on Religion and the Welfare State, the Max Planck Institute, Köln, Germany, April 30-May 1, 2004.

“Family Values Meets the Tax Code: The ‘Marriage Penalty’ and Other Gendered Impacts of American Tax Policy,” Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Research Network on Gender, State and Society Miniconference, Baltimore, MD, November 13, 2003.

“Family Values Meets the Tax Code: The Strange Career of the Marriage Penalty as an Issue in American Politics,” 25^th Annual Meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, D.C., November 7, 2003.

Presentor and participant in “Prospects for Women’s Equality in a Changing and Global Political Economy: Varieties of Capitalism, Labor and Gender,” workshop at Northwestern University, October 10-11, 2003, organized by Ann Shola Orloff.

“The End of Social Solidarity? The Decline of the Social Insurance Model in America,” co-authored with Andrea Campbell, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 28-31, 2003.

Nominated for the best paper award in the Politics and History section of the APSA.

Discussant for “Looking Forward in Labor Policy and Gender: The Future of Parental Leave,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 28-31, 2003.

Discussant and paper presenter at the International Sociological Association Annual Meeting of the Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC-19) Toronto, Canada, August 21-24, 2003.

“Federalism and the Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States,” SASE’s Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 26-28, 2003.

“Federalism and the Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States,” presented with Andrea Campbell at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Annual Meeting, Aspen Colorado, May 28-31, 2003.

“Federalism and the Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States,” at the Structure and Organization of Government Research Committee of IPSA annual meeting, Washington D.C., May 22-24, 2003.

“Federalism, Risk-Pooling and Social Policy: The Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States,” presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, April 3-6, 2003.

“Paid to Care: The Origins and Effects of Care Leave Policies in Western Europe,” co-authored with Kathrina Zippel, presented at the 13^th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 14-16, 2002. Co-organized this panel, “Stagnation, Change, or More of the Same? Gender, Politics and Public Policy in European Welfare States.”

Chaired panel, “Changes in Gender Politics in Europe,” at the 13^th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 14-16, 2002.

Discussant for “The Political Economy of Child Care: Japan in Comparative Perspective,” a conference at Yale University, January 18, 2002.

“American Exceptionalism and the Welfare State,” Social Science History Association conference, Chicago, Nov. 15-18, 2001.

“Conservative Parties and Working Women in France,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2001. Co-organized this panel, entitled “Women and Conservative Parties: Gender, Politics, and Public Policy in Europe and the United States.”

“Cash for Care: The Origins and Impacts of the Private Model of Child Care Provision in the United States,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2001.

“Unmasking the Hidden Welfare State: The Origins and Impacts of the Private Model of Child Care Provision in the U.S.,” Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Washington, D.C., June 8-9, 2001.

“Globalization, Welfare State Retrenchment, and the Social Citizenship of Women in Western Europe,” Social Policy and Transformations of the European Welfare States, workshop of European Union Center of New York, March 2, 2001.

“Women and the Multi-Tiered Politics of Citizenship in Europe,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 2000.

Winner of the Best Paper Award, Women and Politics Section of the APSA

Participant in the mini-conference on Women and Politics, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., Aug. 30, 2000.

“The Politics of Child Care Policy in Comparative Perspective,” European Social Science History Association meeting, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Apr. 12-15, 2000.

“French Child Care Policy and the Crisis of the Welfare State,” workshop on Gender and Welfare State Restructuring, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Apr. 12, 2000.

“Women and Children in the Trente Glorieuses: Day Care Policy in Post-World War Two France,” American Historical Association conference, Chicago, Illinois, Jan. 6-9, 2000.

“The Politics of Early Childhood Education in the French Third Republic,” Social Science History Association conference, Fort Worth, Texas, Nov. 11-14, 1999.

“Race, Class, and the Politics of American Child Care,” conference on Comparative Research on Welfare States and Gender, Univ. Wisconsin Madison, Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 1997.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Co-chair, program committee for the Politics & History Section of the APSA Annual Meeting 2009.

Elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance, Fall 2006.

Served on the National Academy of Social Insurance Policy Research Project, “Designing a Long-Term Care System for the Future,” 2003-05.

Associate Editor, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, & Society

Editorial board member, French Politics, Culture and Society.

Served on the APSA’s Greenstone prize committee for the best book published in Politics and History, 2001-2.

Reviewer for Acta Politica, American Political Science Review, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, French Politics, French Politics, Culture and Society, Gender and Politics, Governance, Social Politics, Social Problems, South European Society and Politics, Theory and Society, Women, Politics & Public Policy, World Politics.

LANGUAGES

French: fluent.

Dutch: intermediate.