Jill A. Irvine

B.A University of Michigan
Ph. D. Harvard University
Associate Professor in Religious Studies Program and Director in Women's Studies Program

 

Fields: Comparative Politics, East European Politics, Women and World Politics, Religion and Violence Professor Irvine, formerly a faculty member of the Political Science Department, rejoined the University of Oklahoma in 2005 where she now divides her time between the Religious Studies Program and the Women's Studies Program.   She teaches courses on Religion and Violence, Religion, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, Women and World Politics, Women, Religion and Secularism, and Feminist Theory. Dr. Irvine is the author of The Croat Question, Partisan Politics and the Formation of the Yugoslav Socialist State (1995 ) and co-editor of State-Society Relations in Yugoslavia, 1945-1991 (1997 ) . She has published articles in East European Politics and Societies, Problems of Postcommunism and Politik and Gender, Nationalities Papers and contributed chapters to several edited volumes.  She is also the author of several government reports including a co-authored report for USAID entitled "Croatia Democracy and Governance Activities Impact on Political Change: 1995-2000," (2002).   Her research interests focus on gender, democratization and ethno-religious conflicts worldwide.

Dr. Irvine's research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, The U.S. Fulbright Program, the National Council for Soviet and East European Research, the International Research and Exchanges Board, the Fulbright-Hays Program, the University of Oklahoma, and Harvard University.