Elisabeth Prügl
Professor
International Relations/Political Science
Graduate Institute of International Studies Geneva
Switzerland
Biography
Faculty member since 2009 and former Deputy Director of the Graduate Institute from 2010 to 2014, Professor Prügl directs the Institute’s Gender Centre. In the course of her academic career in the US and Switzerland her research and teaching have focused on gender politics in international governance. She has published extensively on issues including the regulation of home-based labor, gender and agriculture in the European Union, and the neoliberalization of feminism.
Research Interest
She currently directs several research projects, including the DEMETER project on land commercialization, gendered agrarian transformation and the right to food; a project on the gender dimensions of violent conflict; and another on gender experts and gender expertise. She is a member of the UN’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Civic Participation.
Publications
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Elisabeth Prügl (2012)Feminism and the Figure of Man. International Studies Review 14: 656-660.
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Elisabeth Prügl (2011)“If Lehman Brothers had Been Lehman Sisters …â€: Gender and Myth in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis. International Political Sociology 6: 21-35.
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Elisabeth Prügl (2011) "Diversity Management and Gender Mainstreaming as Technologies of Government,". Politics & Gender 7: 71-89.
