Ann Shola Orloff
Department of Sociology

Ann Orloff, Professor of Sociology, Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research Northwestern University
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1985

Ann Orloff's areas of interest include political sociology, historical and comparative sociology, sociology of gender, and social (including feminist) theory. Her research has focused on states, politics, and gender, particularly in the social policies of the developed world.

Orloff is the author of two books, States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism, and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States with Julia O'Connor and Sheila Shaver (Cambridge, 1999) and The Politics of Pensions: A Comparative Analysis of Canada, Great Britain, and the United States (Wisconsin, 1993); she is also co-editor of two books, Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology with Julia Adams and Elisabeth Clemens (Duke, 2004) and The Politics of Social Policy in the United States with Margaret Weir and Theda Skocpol (Princeton, 1988). She is at work on a manuscript, tentatively entitled "Farewell to Maternalism?," that examines shifts in the gendered logics of welfare and employment policies in the U.S. and several other countries. Orloff continues to co-edit the journal she helped to found, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society. The journal is a forum for research on gender, politics, and policy, as well as feminist theory, from all areas of the world.