DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Ann Orloff is Professor of Sociology and Political Science, and Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition Chair at Northwestern University.  She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1985, and her B.A. from Harvard University in 1975.

Orloff's areas of interest include political sociology, social policy, sociology of gender, historical and comparative sociology, and social and feminist theory. Her research focuses on gendered social policies and feminist politics in the global north.