B.A University of Michigan
Ph. D. Harvard University
President's Associates Presidential Professor and Director of Women's and Gender Studies Program
Fields: Comparative Politics, East European Politics, Women and World Politics, Religion and Violence
Professor Irvine was named a President's Associates Presidential Professor in Spring `10. She is the director of the OU Women's and Gender Studies Program.
Teaching: Women and the Military, Religion and Violence, Religion, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, Women and World Politics, Women, Religion and Secularism, and Feminist Theory.
Dr. Irvine is the author of The Croat Question, Partisan Politics and the Formation of the Yugoslav Socialist State (1995 ) and co-editor of State-Society Relations in Yugoslavia, 1945-1991 (1997). She has published articles in East European Politics and Societies, Problems of Postcommunism and Politik and Gender, Nationalities Papers and contributed chapters to several edited volumes. She is also the author of several government reports including a co-authored report for USAID entitled "Croatia Democracy and Governance Activities Impact on Political Change: 1995-2000," (2002). Her research interests focus on gender, democratization and ethno-religious conflicts worldwide. Dr. Irvine's research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, The U.S. Fulbright Program, the National Council for Soviet and East European Research, the International Research and Exchanges Board, the Fulbright-Hays Program, the University of Oklahoma, and Harvard University.
Books:
Forthcoming:
Jill Irvine and Maureen Hays Mitchell, eds. Gender and Democratization in Societies at
War, forthcoming with Pennsylvania State University Press
Published:
Natalija, Life in the Balkan Powderkeg, 1880-1956, (with Carol Lilly), Central European
University Press
State-Society Relations in Yugoslavia, 1945-1992, Melissa Bokovoy, Jill Irvine and Carol
Lilly, eds., St. Martin's Press, 1997.
The Croat Question: Partisan Politics in the Formation of the Yugoslav Socialist State.
Westview Press, 1994.
Book Chapters and Journal Articles:
Forthcoming:
"Exporting the Culture Wars: Concerned Women for American and Global Activism," in Women of the Right: Comparisons and Exchanges Across National Borders, Kathleen Blee and sandra Deutsch editors, Penn State University Press, forthcoming in 2011.
"Right-wing Women in the Balkans, 1990-2005," in Women of the Right: Comparisons and Exchanges Across National Borders, Kathleen Blee and Sandra Deutsch editors, Penn State University Press, forthcoming 2011.
Published: “The Croatian Spring and the Dissolution of Yugoslavia,” in State Collapse in South-Eastern Europe: New Perspectives on Yugoslavia’s Disintegration, Lenard Cohen and Jasna Dragovic Soso, eds., Purdue University Press, 2007 “Women’s Organizations and Critical Elections in Croatia,” Politics and Gender 3:1
(March 2007): 7-32
“Boys Must Be Boys, Gender and the Serbian Radical Party, 1990-2000,” (with Carol
Lilly), Nationalities Papers, 35:1 (March 2007): 93-120
“The Gulen Movement and Turkish Integration in Germany,” in Yuksel A. Aslandogan
and Robert A. Hunt, eds. Muslim Citizens in a Globalized World, IID Press, 2006
"Negotiating Interests: Women and Nationalism in Serbia and Croatia 1990-1997 (coauthored
with Carol Lilly)," East European Politics and Societies, 16:1 (Winter 2002).
"The Gendered Nature of Conflict in Kosovo," (co-authored with Carol Lilly), in Politik
(11), (Summer 1999).
"Public Opinion and the Political Position of Women in Croatia," in Marilyn
Rueschemeyer, ed., Women in the Politics of Postcommunist Eastern Europe, M.E.
Sharpe, 1998.
"Ultranationalist Ideology and State-building in Croatia, 1990-1996," Problems of Post-
Communism, vol.44, no.4(July/August 1997).
State-Society Relations in Yugoslavia, 1945-1992," in State-Society Relations in
Yugoslavia, 1945-1992, Melissa Bokovoy, Jill Irvine and Carol Lilly, eds., St. Martin's
Press, 1997.
"Nationalism and the Extreme Right in the Former Yugoslavia," The Far Right in
Western and Eastern Europe," Luciano Cheles, Ronnie Ferguson and Michalina
Vaughan, eds. Longman, 1995.
"Tito, Hebrang i hrvatsko pitanje, 1943-1945," in Casopis za suvremenu povijest, 21 (1)
1992.
"Tito, Hebrang and the Croat Question, 1944-1945," East European Politics and
Societies (Spring 1991).
Government Reports
“USAID/Croatia Democracy and Governance Activities Impact on Political Change:
1995-2000,” co-authored with Lynn Carter, Eugene Lin, Bruce Kay and Ann Phillips,
October 2002
"Nationalism and State-building in Croatia, 1990-1996," Report solicited by National
Council for Soviet and East European Research, 1996.
"Extreme Right Parties and the Extremist Electorate in Croatia, 1990-1995," Report
solicited by the National Council for Soviet and East European Research, 1996"
CONFERENCE PAPERS
�"The Double Boomerang Effect: Women's Organizations and the Implementation of UNHCR 1325." Paper presented at the annual convention of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, 16-20 February 2010.
"Women's Organizations and the Implementation of UNSCR 1325 in the Balkans." Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, 11-15 November 2009.
“Women Writing Lives: the Diary of Natalija Matic Zrnic, 18880-1956.” Paper presented
at the Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies, Washington DC, 16-19 November 2006.
“From the Ethics of Care to the Ethics of Politics: Gender and Democratization in
Croatia, 1990-1995.” Paper presented at the Conference on Gender and Democratization
in Societies at War, Colgate University, 6-7 October 2006.
“From Civil Society to Civil Servants, Women’s Organizations and Critical Elections in
Croatia, 1990-2000.” Paper presented at the Thirteenth Berkshire Conference of Women
Historians, Scripps College, 2-5 June 2005.
“The Croatian Spring and the Dissolution of Yugoslavia.” Paper presented at the
Conference on Rethinking the Dissolution of Yugoslavia,” Centre for South-East
European Studies, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College,
London, 18-19 June 2004.
“The Role of Women’s Organizations in the 2000 Elections in Croatia,” paper presented
at the 2003 Croatia Summer Institute on Race, Gender and Ethnicity, Institute for
Teaching and Research on Women, Porec, Croatia, 2-6 June 2003.
"Negotiating Interests: Women and Nationalism in Serbian and Croatia, 1991-1996."
Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies, St. Louis, 15-19 November 1999.
"Extreme Right Opinion and the Transition to Democracy: the Croatian Case." Paper
presented at the Annual Convention of the American Political Science Association,
Boston, 1-4 September 1998.
"Extreme Right Parties and the Politics of Postcommunist Transformation in Croatia."
Paper presented at the Annual Convention for the American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies, Seattle, 22-25 November 1997.
"The Communitarian Critique of Liberalism and Its Implications for the Role of Local
Government in the Transition to Democracy in Eastern Europe." Paper presented at the
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Conference on the Role of Local Government in the Transition to Democracy in Eastern
Europe, Nis, Yugoslavia, 13-17 November, 1997.
"Ethnic Mobilization and the Development of Political Parties in Serbia." Paper presented
at the Conference on Political Parties in Postcommuniust Eastern Europe, Belgrade, 23-
26 May, 1996.
"State and Nation in Yugoslavia, 1945-1992." Paper presented at the Annual Convention
of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, 19-21
November, 1994.
"Ultranationalists in Serbia and Croatia, 1990-1994." Roundtable presentation at the
Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies,
Philadelphia, 19-21 November 1994.
"Nationalism and the Extreme Right in the former Yugoslavia." Paper presented at the
Annual Convention of the American Political Science Association, New York, 1-4
September 1994.
"State-Building and Nationalism in Eastern Europe." Paper presented at the Annual
Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies,
November, 1993.
"The Federal Debate in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia during the Interwar Period."
Paper presented at the annual Convention of the American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 1992.
"The Croat Question and the Formation of the Yugoslav Socialist State." Paper presented
at the Junior Scholars' Training Seminar. Wilson Center, Washington, DC, August 1992.
"Peasants, Partisans and Political Change in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945." Paper presented at
the Annual Convention of the Western Political Science Association, April, 1992.
"State-Building and Factional Struggle in the CPY during the Yugoslav Revolution,"
Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies, October 1990.
WORK IN PROGRESS
A scholarly article examining the role of American women’s religious organizations,
particularly Concerned Women for America, in global governance and human rights
discourse
A study of the role of gender in Turkish integration in Germany
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