Professor Maxine Molineux from Institute for the Study of the Americas, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
10 March 2011
At 16:00 in Room 6.345 and afterwards in the Sociology Common Room.
Maxine Molyneux is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, where she teaches and supervises Doctoral students on Latin American Development policy and practice, gender, politics, social policy, memory and migration.
She has written extensively in the fields of political sociology, gender and development, human rights and social policy, and has authored books on Latin America, Ethiopia and South Yemen. She has acted as senior adviser, consultant and researcher to UNRISD, and has undertaken funded research for the UK’s Department for International Development, the ILO, and other development policy agencies. Her current research is on social protection, rights, and citizenship and the link between economic and social policy in Latin America.
Maxine Molyneux is on the Editorial Boards of Economy and Society, the Journal of Latin American Studies, and Development and Change. She is the editor of the ISA/Palgrave ‘Studies of the Americas’ Series and the ISA in-house book series.
