Joya Misra

Education and Interests

(Ph.D., Emory, 1994)

Comparative Political Economy, Race/Gender/Class, Welfare States, Methods & Statistics.

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Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications

• Dan Clawson, Doug Anderton, Naomi Gerstel, Joya Misra, Randall Stokes, Robert Zussman, and Michael Burawoy (Eds.) . 2007. Public Sociology:  Michael Burawoy and his Critics.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
• Joya Misra and Lucian Jude. 2008. “The Effect of Family Policy on Women’s Employment Rates Historical Evidence from France and the Netherlands.” Lane Kenworthy and Alexander Hicks’ Method and Substance in Macro-Comparative Analysis.  New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.  
• Joya Misra, Stephanie Moller, and Michelle Budig. 2007. “Work-Family Policies and Poverty for Partnered and Single Women in Europe and North America.” Gender & Society. 21: 804-827.
• Joya Misra, Michelle Budig, and Stephanie Moller. 2007."Reconciliation Policies and the Effects of Motherhood on Employment, Earnings, and Poverty." Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. 9(2):135-155.
  
• Joya Misra, Jonathan Woodring, and Sabine Merz. 2006. "The Globalization of Carework: Immigration, Economic Restructuring, and the World-System."  Globalization. 3(3): 317-332.
• Joya Misra and Leslie King. 2005.  "Gender and State Policies." In Thomas Janoski, Robert Alford, Alexander Hicks, and Mildred's Schwartz's Handbook of Political Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Joya Misra, Stephanie Moller, and Marina Karides. 2003. "Envisioning Dependency: Changing Media Depictions of Welfare Recipients in the 20th Century." Social Problems. 50(4): 482-504.
• Irene Browne and Joya Misra. 2003. "The Intersection of Gender and Race in Labor Markets." Annual Review of Sociology. 29: 487-513.
• Joya Misra.  2003. “Women as Agents in Welfare State Development: A Cross-National Analysis of Family Allowance Adoption.” Socio-Economic Review.  1: 185-214.
  

Recent Presentations

• Joya Misra, Michelle Budig, and Irene Boeckmann. 2009. “A Cross-National Perspective on Gender, Parenthood, and Employment” Paper presented at the RC 19 Meetings of the International Sociological Association, Montreal.
• Michelle Budig, Joya Misra, and Irene Boeckmann. 2009. “Work-Family Policies and the Wage Penalty to Mothers.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco.
• Joya Misra, Michelle Budig, and Irene Boeckmann. 2008. “The Motherhood Wage Penalty in Cross-National Perspective: Do Family Policies Matter?” Paper presented at the RC 19 Meetings of the International Sociological Association, Stockholm.

Funded Projects

• NSF. The Cross-National Effects of Work-Family Policies on the Wage Penalty for Motherhood Using Multi-level Model.s (200-2009)
• NSF. The Cross-National Effects of Work-Family Policies on the Wage
  Penalty for Motherhood" (2006-2008)
• NSF. Gender, Culture, and the State: Family Policy in Conservative Countries. (2001-2004)