Amy Mazur
Amy Gale Mazur (born May 5, 1962) is an American political scientist and professor at Washington State University, as well as an associate researcher at the Centre d’Études Européennes at Sciences Po, Paris. Education. Mazur attended University of Caen Normandy in 1982-1983 and attained her B.A. at Colby College in 1984. She completed graduate work at Sciences Po in 1986-1987. She obtained her M.A. in 1986 and in 1992 her Ph.D. in Politics and French Studies at New York University. Career. Mazur's research and teaching interests focus on comparative feminist policy, women’s policy agencies /state feminism, feminist policy implementation, conceptualization and mixed methods, and French politics. She is the co-convener of the Gender Equality Policy in Practice Network (GEPP) and the associate editor of "French Politics". She is one of the founders of the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State (RNGS). From 2006 to 2014, Mazur was coeditor of "Political Research Quarterly", with Cornell Clayton. In 2015, she was a fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities; in 2009, a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study and the University of Warwick; and in Fall 2001 the Marie-Jahoda  Professor of International Feminist Studies at Ruhr University Bochum. In 2005–2006, she was an expert for the United Nations for the Expert Group Meeting on Equal Participation of Women and Men in Decision-making Processes and rapporteur of the final meeting report. Mazur has also been consulted by the European Union, the World Bank, the International Labour Organization and the Obama Administration. She has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, the European Science Foundation, the French Ministry of Social Affairs and the Norwegian National Science Foundation.