Alessandra Rusconi – CV & Publications – Stand 08/2010
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests: Social Inequalities and Gender; Work, Family and Occupational Careers; Sociology of the Life Course; Education Policy; Comparative Social Research. Education 2003
Free University, Berlin, Germany. Dr. phil. in Sociology, (Ph.D. equivalent). Thesis: Leaving the Parental Home in West Germany and Italy: Opportunities and Constraints
1997
University of Florence, Italy. Laurea in Political Science, (M.A. equivalent). Thesis: : La demografia nella Germania dell’est fra oriente ed occidente (Demographic Changes in Eastern Germany before and after Reunification)
Academic Positions 2007-present
Senior Researcher at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), Research Unit “Skill Formation and Labor Markets” (Director: Prof. Dr. H. Solga) and Co-Principal Investigator of the project ”The Entwined Life Courses of Academic Couples” (funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)).
2004 - 2007
Senior Researcher at the University of Bremen, Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology (EMPAS) and in the project “International Education Politics” (Director: Prof. Dr. A. Weymann) of the Collaborative Research Center 597 “Transformation of the State”(funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)).
2003 – 2004
Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin, Independent Research Group “Lack of Training: Employment and Life Chances of the Less Educated” (Director: Dr. H. Solga)
2001 – 2003
Junior Researcher at the Young Academy at the BerlinBrandenburg Academy of Science and the German Academy of Scientists Leopoldina, in the project “Dual Careers” of the Research Group “Academic Policy”.
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1998 – 2001
Doctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin, Center for Sociology and the Study of the Life Course (Director: Prof. Dr. K.U. Mayer).
1997 – 1998
Student Apprentice at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin, Center for Sociology and the Study of the Life Course, in the project „Transformation of the East German Labor Market“ (Principal Investigators: Dr. M. Diewald, Dr. H. Solga).
1996
Student Assistant at the University of Florence, Department of Political Science and Sociology, in the project “Lone Mothers in Italy” (Principal Investigator: Prof. R. Trifiletti).
Grants, Scholarships 2007 – 2010
The Entwined Life Courses of Academic Couples, Project within the BMBF Research Programme „Strategies for Implementing Equal Opportunities for Women in Education and Research“; funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the European Social Fund (ESF). Co-Principal Investigator (with Prof. Dr. H. Solga).
2008
Travel Grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the First ISA Forum of Sociology (not claimed).
2004 – 2007
International Education Politics, Project within the Collaborative Research Center 597 “Transformation of the State”; funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Member of the Research Staff and Project Application as a Senior Researcher.
2004
Entwurf zum 4. Landesgleichstellungsbericht zur Anwendung und Wirksamkeit des Landesgleichstellungsgesetzes des Landes Brandenburg, Expertise on behalf of the Brandenburg State Ministry for Labor, Social Affairs, Health and Women. (with Dr. S. Wagner).
1998 – 2001
Max Planck Society Doctoral Fellowship.
1996 – 1997
Erasmus Scholarship (Free University, Berlin, Germany).
Teaching experience 2006- 2007
Macro-Data Analysis in International Comparison, Graduate Seminar on Quantitative Research Methods for M.A. Students in Sociology and Social Research, University of Bremen. Goffman – Interaction, Representation & Deviant Behavior, Undergraduate Theory Seminar for B.A. Students of Sociology, University of Bremen.
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2005-2006
Pros and Cons of Rational Choice Theories, Undergraduate Theory Seminar for B.A. Students of Sociology, University of Bremen. Critical Theory & Practice, Undergraduate Theory Seminar for B.A. Students of Sociology, University of Bremen.
2004-2005
Rational Choice Theory and its Applications, Undergraduate Theory Seminar for B.A. Students of Sociology, University of Bremen. From Critical Theory to a Theory of Communicative Action, Undergraduate Theory Seminar for B.A. Students of Sociology, University of Bremen.
2004 - 2007
Supervision of several Bachelor and Master Theses in Sociology, University of Bremen.
Peer reviewer 2009 - present
Review of Research Proposals for: Swiss National Science Foundation; National Research Programme “Gender Equality” (NRP 60).
2007 - present
Review of Manuscripts for: Journal of Marriage and Family; Gender, Work & Organization; European Education.
Board, Organizational and Administrative Activities 2007-2009
2005 - 2007
Planning and Coordination of the Interdepartmental Academic Colloquium “Employment, Partnerships, and Life Courses” at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB). Academic Representative of the Interdisciplinary Examination Board for the Intermediate Examination in „Education Studies“, University of Bremen. Planning and Coordination of the Academic Colloquium at the Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology (EMPAS), University of Bremen. Conceptualization and Creation of the Website for the Chair „Social Theory: Education, Employment and the Life Course“, University of Bremen.
2004 - 2007
Planning and Coordination of Undergraduate and Graduate Courses for the Chair „Social Theory: Education, Employment and the Life Course“, University of Bremen. Academic Representative of various Doctoral and Postdoctoral (Habilitation) Committees at the University of Bremen.
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2005
Planning and Organization of the International Workshop „New Arenas of Educational Governance“, at the Collaborative Research Center 597 “Transformations of the State”, 23-24 September, University of Bremen (with Dr. K. Martens and K. Leuze).
Further Methodological and Didactical Training 2009
Cross-sectional und Longitudinal Multilevel Modeling, 2 days Workshop at the Free University, Berlin. Sequence Analysis in Social Sciences, 1 day Workshop at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB).
2008
Multilevel Analysis, 2 days Workshop at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB).
2007
Data Analysis Using Stata, 1 day Workshop at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB).
2005
Political Networks Analysis: Theoretical and Methodological Background, 2 days Workshop at the Collaborative Research Center 597 “Transformation of the State”, University of Bremen. Motivational Teaching and Learning at Universities - Reflection, most frequent Problems and Activating Solutions, 2 days Academic Didactical Seminar at the University of Bremen. The Planning and Organization of Academic Courses, 2 days Academic Didactical Seminar at the University of Bremen.
1999
Social Science Data Analysis and Collection, 4 weeks Summer School at the University of Essex, Colchester. Event History Analysis, 1 week Spring Seminar at the Central Archive for Empirical Social Research, Cologne.
1998
Statistical Methods, 1 week Autumn Seminar at the Center for Historical Social Research, Cologne.
Language skills Italian
mother tongue
German
proficient user
English
proficient user
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Publications [* peer-reviewed] Monographs and Edited Volumes * Martens Kerstin, Alessandra Rusconi and Kathrin Leuze (Eds.) (2007). New Arenas of Educational Governance – The Impact of International Organizations and Markets on Educational Policymaking. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave. Rusconi, Alessandra (2006). Leaving the Parental Home in Italy and West Germany: Opportunities and Constraints. Aachen: Shaker Verlag. Articles in Scientific Journals and Book Chapters Rusconi, Alessandra and Heike Solga (2010) Doppelkarrieren – Eine wichtige Bedingung für die Verbesserung der Karrierechancen von Frauen. In: Gramespacher, Elke, Julika Funk and Iris Rothhäusler (Eds.): Dual Career Couples an Hochschulen. Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich, pp. 37-55. * Jakobi, Anja P. and Alessandra Rusconi (2009). Lifelong Learning in the Bologna Process: European Developments in Higher Education. Compare, 39 (1): 51-65. Solga, Heike and Alessandra Rusconi (2008). Das schwierige Unterfangen von Doppelkarrieren in Akademikerpartnerschaften – Ergebnisse des Mikrozensus 2004. In: Gabriele Rolf, Markus Zwick und Gert G. Wagner (Eds.), Fortschritte der informationellen Infrastruktur in Deutschland. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 324-337. * Rusconi, Alessandra and Heike Solga (2007). Determinants of and Obstacles to Dual Careers in Germany. Zeitschrift für Familienforschung 19 (3): 311-336. * Balzer, Carolin and Alessandra Rusconi (2007). From the Commission to the Member States and Back? A Comparison of the Bologna and Bruges-Copenhagen Processes. In: Martens, Kerstin, Alessandra Rusconi and Kathrin Leuze (Eds.), New Arenas of Educational Governance -– The Impact of International Organizations and Markets on Educational Policymaking. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 57-75. * Leuze, Kathrin, Kerstin Martens and Alessandra Rusconi (2007). Introduction. In: Martens, Kerstin, Alessandra Rusconi and Kathrin Leuze (Eds.), New Arenas of Educational Governance -– The Impact of International Organizations and Markets on Educational Policymaking. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 3-15. * Weymann, Ansgar, Kerstin Martens, Alessandra Rusconi and Kathrin Leuze (2007). International Organizations, Markets and the Nation State in Education Governance. In: Martens, Kerstin, Alessandra Rusconi and Kathrin Leuze (Eds.), New Arenas of Educational Governance -– The Impact of International Organizations and Markets on Educational Policymaking. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 229-341. Rusconi, Alessandra (2005). Irse de casa in Alemania: ¿Una nueva vía hacia la independencia?. Revista de Estudios de Juventud, 71: 95-107. Solga, Heike, Alessandra Rusconi and Helga Krüger (2005). Gibt der ältere Partner den Ton an? Die Alterskonstellation in Akademikerpartnerschaften und ihre 5
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Bedeutung für Doppelkarrieren. In: Heike Solga and Christine Wimbauer (Eds.), „Wenn zwei das Gleiche tun...“ Ideal und Realität sozialer (Un-)Gleichheit in Dual Career Couples. Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich, pp. 27-52. * Rusconi, Alessandra (2004). Different pathways out of the parental home: A comparison of West-Germany and Italy. Journal of Comparative Family Studies 35 (5): 627-649. Solga, Heike and Alessandra Rusconi (2004). Deutsche Hochschule und ihr ambivalentes Verhältnis zu Doppelkarrieren in Akademikerpartnerschaften. In: Günther Vedder (Ed.), Familiengerechte Hochschule: Analysen, Konzepte, Perspektiven. Frankfurt a.M.: Hertie-Stiftung, pp. 64-89. Professional expertise Rusconi, Alessandra and Sandra Wagner (2004): Entwurf zum 4. Landesgleichstellungsbericht zur Anwendung und Wirksamkeit des Landesgleichstellungsgesetzes des Landes Brandenburg nach dessen Inkrafttreten am 06.Juni 1994 (Berichtszeitraum: Juli 2000 bis Februar 2004). On behalf of the State Ministry for Labor, Social Affairs, Health and Women, State of Brandenburg. Research Reports, Working Papers and other Publications Leuze, Kathrin and Alessandra Rusconi (2009). Haben Professionen ein Geschlecht? Öffentliche Perspektiven und private Hindernisse. Forum Wissenschaft, 26 (4), pp. 18-21 Leuze, Kathrin and Alessandra Rusconi (2009). Karriere ist Männersache. Auch hochqualifizierte Frauen haben im Job schlechtere Chancen. WZB-Mitteilungen, 123, S. 2225 Leuze, Kathrin and Alessandra Rusconi (2009). Should I Stay or Should I Go? Gender Differences in Professional Employment. WZB Discussion Paper SP I 2009-501. Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Berlin.§ Jakobi, Anja P. and Alessandra Rusconi (2008). Opening of Higher Education? A Lifelong Learning Perspective on the Bologna Process. WZB Discussion Paper SP I 2008502. Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Berlin.§ Leuze, Kathrin, Tilman Brand, Anja P. Jakobi, Kerstin Martens, Alexander Nagel, Alessandra Rusconi and Ansgar Weymann (2008). Analysing the Two-Level Game. International and National Determinants of Change in Education Policy Making. TranState Working Papers N. 72. University of Bremen (SFB 597), Bremen.+ Rusconi, Alessandra and Heike Solga (2008). A Systematic Reflection upon Dual Career Couples. WZB Discussion Paper SP I 2008-505. Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Berlin.§ Rusconi, Alessandra and Heike Solga (2008). Herausforderung Doppelkarriere: Auch in Akademikerpaaren steckt die Frau beruflich zurück. WZB-Mitteilungen, 119, pp. 15-18. Rusconi, Alessandra and Heike Solga (2004). Alters- und Erwerbskonstellationen in Akademikerpartnerschaften: ein Vergleich zwischen 1971 und 1997. Arbeitsbericht der AG „Wissenschaftspolitik“ der Jungen Akademie, Berlin. 6
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Rusconi, Alessandra and Heike Solga (2004). Kommt der Partner mit? – Die Sicht der Hochschulen. In: Deutscher Hochschullehrerinnenbund e.V. (Ed.), Hochschulfrauen als akademische Nomaden? Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Mobilität. Berlin, pp. 58-69. Rusconi, Alessandra and Heike Solga (2004). Dual Careers: Akademikerpartnerschaften an deutschen Hochschulen. In: Cosima Schuster (Ed.), Physikerinnen stellen sich vor. Dokumentation der Deutschen Physikerinnentagung 2003. Augsburger Schriften zur Mathematik, Physik und Informatik, Band 3. Berlin: Logos Verlag, pp. 144-157. Rusconi, Alessandra (2003). Altersund Erwerbskonstellationen in Akademikerpartnerschaften – Empirische Analysen mit dem Mikrozensus 1997. Arbeitsbericht der AG „Wissenschaftspolitik“ der Jungen Akademie, Berlin. Rusconi, Alessandra (2002). Academic dual-career couples in the U.S. Arbeitsbericht der AG „Wissenschaftspolitik“ der Jungen Akademie, Berlin. Rusconi, Alessandra (2002). Dual Careers – Insights from Social Research in Western Europe and Germany. Arbeitsbericht der AG „Wissenschaftspolitik“ der Jungen Akademie, Berlin. Rusconi, Alessandra (2002). „What can universities do?” Dual-career policies at American universities. Arbeitsbericht der AG „Wissenschaftspolitik“ der Jungen Akademie, Berlin. Rusconi, Alessandra and Heike Solga (2002). Verflechtung von beruflichen Karrieren in Akademikerpartnerschaften. Arbeitsbericht der AG „Wissenschaftspolitik“ der Jungen Akademie, Berlin. The WZB Discussion Papers of the Research Unit “Skill Formation and Labor Markets” are available online: www.wzb.eu/bal/aam/discussion_papers.de.htm
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Lectures and Conference Presentations [* invited guest lectures] International 7/2010
The timing of career steps in German Academia – The role of gender, relationships & disciplines. Paper presented at the 17th ISA World Congress of Sociology. RC 52: Sociology of Professional Groups, Session 09: Gender & the Professions. Gothenburg/Sweden, 11-17. July.
6/2010
Gender differences in the timing of career steps in German Academia. Paper presented Equalsoc Final Conference, Session: Gender and Careers. Amsterdam/The Netherlands, 4-5. June.
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11/2009
* Partnerschaften und Karrieren von Frauen an deutschen Hochschulen. Lecture at the Symposium: Dual Career Couples – Neue Herausforderungen für Hochschulen. Abteilung Gleichstellung und Gleichstellungskommission. University of Zurich/Switzerland, 13. November (with H. Solga).
9/2008
A Systematic Reflection upon Dual Career Couples. Paper presented at the first ISA Forum of Sociology: Sociological Research and Public Debate. RC 02: Economy and Society, Session 03: Varieties of Capitalist Gender Regimes. Barcelona/Spain, 5 – 8 September.
5/2007
Institutional and individual constraints of an “un-gendered” order of professions. Paper presented at the ISA-RC32 „Women in Society“ & EKKE, Interim International Conference: Women and Citizenship in a Local/Global World. Athens/Greece, 31 May-1 June.
7/2006
* From the Commission to the Member States and Back? A Comparison of the Bologna and Bruges-Copenhagen Processes. Paper presented at the 20th IPSA World Conference, Panel: Education Policy and International Organizations. Fukuoka/Japan, 9-13 July.
9/2005
Opening of Higher Education? A Lifelong Learning Perspective on the Bologna Process. Paper presented at the 7th Conference of European Sociological Association (ESA) Rethinking Inequalities, Torun/Poland, 9-13 September.
7/2005
Crossing Frontiers to and within Higher Education: A Lifelong Learning Perspective on the Bologna Process. Paper presented at the 37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology Frontiers of Sociology, Stockholm/Sweden, 5-9 July (with A.P. Jakobi).
7/2002
Different pathways out of the parental home: A comparison of WestGermany and Italy. Paper presented at the XV ISA World Congress of Sociology. RC 34: Sociology of youth. Brisbane/Australia, 5-15 July.
9/2001
Italy and West-Germany different pathways out of the parental home: Opportunities and constrains. Paper presented at the International Conference Family Forms and the Young Generation in Europe. University Milano-Bicocca, Milan/Italy, 20-22 September.
9/2000
Leaving the parental home in West-Germany and Italy. Paper presented at the 7th Workshop of the European Research Network on Transition in Youth. Antwerp/Belgium, 7-10 September.
National 6/2010
* Gemeinsam Karriere machen: Wissenschaftskarrieren von Frauen, nur im Doppelpack? Lecture at the Seminar Series FrauenArbeitsWelten. Tübingen University, 30. June. 8
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6/2010
* Gemeinsam Karriere machen: Wissenschaftskarrieren von Frauen, nur im Doppelpack? Lecture at the IAB-Colloquium. Nürnberg, 24. June.
4/2010
* Zwei Karrieren eine Familie: Doppelkarrieren in der Wissenschaft. Lecture at the theme night „Doppelkarrierepaare in der Wissenschaft“. Ruhr-University of Bochum, 28. April.
2/2010
* Karrieren von Akademikerinnen. Lecture at the Symposium Wissenschaft & Geschlecht – Karrieren und Barrieren auf dem Weg an die Spitze. University of Hamburg, 18-19 February.
11/2008
* Doppelkarrieren in der Wissenschaft – Eine systematische Betrachtung. Lecture at the Best-Practice-Workshop Duale Karrieren in Theorie und Praxis and the Seminar Series Wissenschaft, Chancengleichheit, Frauenförderung. University of Constance, 27–28 November.
5/2008
* Flexibel, aber einsam?’ Wissenschaft als Lebensentwurf. Lecture at the Informationstag: Wissenschaft als Beruf. Stiftung des Deutschen Volkes. Cologne, 16. May.
1/2008
* Institutional and Individual Constraints of an “Un-gendered” Order of Professions. Lecture at the EMPAS Colloquium, University of Bremen, 23. January (with K. Leuze).
11/2006
* Determinanten und Hindernisse von Doppelkarrieren. Lecture at the 10th Congress of German female Physicists, Panel: Women in Science. Technische Universität Berlin, 2-5 November.
5/2006
* Doppelkarrieren: Herausforderungen für Paare und Hochschulen. Lecture at the Informationstag: Wissenschaft als Beruf. Stiftung des Deutschen Volkes. Cologne, 12. May.
1/2006
* Doppelkarrierepaare als Herausforderung für die Hochschule. Lecture at the Seminar Series: Gleichheit (der Geschlechter?) – Freiheit (der Wissenschaft) – Brüderlichkeit (wer mit wem?). University of Constance, 19. January.
9/2005
From the Commission to the Member States and Back? A Comparison of the Bologna and Bruges-Copenhagen Processes. Paper presented at the International Workshop: New Arenas of Education Politics, SFB 597 „Transformation of the State“. University of Bremen, 23./24. September (with C. Balzer).
6/2005
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Dual Careers: Labor Force Participation and Occupation and its Dependence on Partnership. Lecture at the LIFE Seminar: Biological, Psychological, and Social Constraints on Learning Development Across the Life Course. International Max Planck Research School (LIFE). Berlin, 3. June.
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10/2004
Her career gets started after his – and… Paper presented at the 32. German Congress of Sociology, Ad-hoc Group Wenn zwei das Gleiche tun - Ideal und Realität sozialer (Un-)Gleichheit in Dual Career Couples. Munich, 4-8 October.
1/2004
* Kommt der Partner mit? Die Sicht der Hochschulen. Lecture at the Public Colloquium: Hochschulfrauen als akademische Nomaden? Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Mobilität. Deutscher Hochschullehrerinnenbund e.V. Berlin, 24 January.
11/2003
* Dual Careers: Akademikerpaare an deutschen Hochschulen. Lecture at the 7h Congress of German female Physicists, Panel: Women in Physic. Augsburg, 6.-9. November.
10/2003
* Dual Careers: Akademikerpaare an deutschen Hochschulen. Lecture at the Arbeitsausschusses Förderung der Wissenschaftlerinnen der Max Planck Gesellschaft. Berlin, 15. October (with H. Solga).
3/2003
* Doppelkarrieren in Akademikerpartnerschaften an deutschen Hochschulen. Lecture at the seminar of the Arbeitskreises Chancengleichheit der DPG: Improving the Status of Women in Physics. Bad Honnef, 27-29 March.
2/2003
* Verflechtung von beruflichen Karrieren in Akademikerpartnerschaften. Lecture at the Symposium: Verflechtung von beruflichen Karrieren in Akademikerpartnerschaften. DFG and Stifterverband. Bonn, 24. February.
9/2000
Leaving the parental home in West-Germany and Italy – Opportunities and constraints. Paper presented at the International Workshop: Leaving Home - A European focus. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, 6-8 September.
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