Dorit Geva Explained

Dorit Geva
Occupation:political sociologist
Education:New York University, PhD, 2006
Discipline:Political Sociology
Sub Discipline:social and political theory, politics of gender and sexuality, and comparative and historical sociology

Dorit Geva is a Canadian political sociologist who specialises in political sociology, social and political theory, politics of gender and sexuality, and comparative and historical sociology. She is Professor of Politics and Gender at the Institute for Political Science, University of Vienna. Formerly, she was Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology and was Founding Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Central European University .[1] While at CEU, she was part of a team that created the BA in Culture, Politics and Society at CEU.[2] She is known for her research on right-wing politics in Europe, and for her research on establishment of the US draft system and its history of racial and gender discrimination. Geva is Chair of Publications Committee of Social Science History Association (SSHA) from 2021.[3]

Research and career

Geva earned her PhD in sociology from New York University in 2006. She held a Vincent Write Fellowship in Comparative Politics at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (2006-2007), Italy, and was then a Harper Schmidt Fellow (2007-2011) at University of Chicago.[4] She had also been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Budapest, and at the European Institute for Advanced Studies at Collegium de Lyon.[5]

In 2011, Geva joined the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University (CEU). She was the Chair of the department from 2017 to 2019 before being appointed the first dean of undergraduate studies at Central European University in 2019. She was promoted to Full Professor in 2021.[6] From 2024, she became Professor of Politics and Gender at the Institute for Political Science, University of Vienna. She was the MA supervisor of Ahmed Samir Santawy, a CEU student who had been jailed in Egypt.[7]

Conscription and family politics

Geva's book Conscription, Family, and the Modern State: A Comparative Study of France and the United States was published in 2013. The book examines how fathers were treated by military systems when conscription was institutionalized in France and then the United States.[8] Her work on the United States Selective Service System shows how the draft system was never designed for universal military service, and how men who support families economically have long been deferred from the draft. In later research she has shown how the local draft board system was based on a distinctly American method of “rational informality,” where loose rules from federal guidelines gave local draft board members the power to decide who would be drafted and who would be deferred. The result has been a discriminatory conscription system which has always drafted more African American men because they were not seen as family breadwinners who could benefit from draft deferments.[9] She has also argued that the Selective Service System needs to be disbanded because it was designed to discriminate.[10] Her book has also been translated in German.

Far-right politics in Europe

Between 2012 and 2016, Geva received a European Commission Marie Curie Career Integration Grant to study political dynasties within political parties. Her work focused on the gender politics of right-wing parties and on transformations in European party politics.[11] This led her to study the French National Front, whose leadership changed from Jean-Marine Le Pen to his daughter, Marine Le Pen. She has written on the difference between, but also the connections between, right-wing ideologies and populist performances, and how they are  connected by gendered symbolism, and also on how Marine Le Pen can perform masculine populist repertoires.[12] [13] Her work on new forms of rightwing politics has focused on epistemic politics, including within anti “gender ideology” activism in France. With Felipe Santos, she has written about the rise of right-wing anti-globalists and their influence on establishing far-right educational institutions in Europe.[14]

Her work on how neoliberalism has merged with older forms of far-right politics in Europe has garnered widespread attention. She coined the term “ordonationalist” to capture this development, focusing especially on how Viktor Orbán's Hungary is forging a new type of state and political regime.[15]

Publications

Books

Articles and book chapters

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dorit Geva CEU People. 2022-02-21. people.ceu.edu. en.
  2. Web site: 2020-11-18. Bachelor of Arts in Culture, Politics and Society CEU Undergraduate Studies. 2022-02-21. CEU Undergraduate. en.
  3. Web site: SSHA Officers. 2022-02-21. ssha.org.
  4. Web site: Dorit Geva. 2022-02-21. geva.ca.
  5. Web site: Dorit Geva European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme 2018-2019. 2022-02-21. www.2018-2019.eurias-fp.eu.
  6. Web site: Dorit Geva appointed Professor Central European University. 2022-02-21. www.ceu.edu.
  7. Web site: Letters of Support for Ahmed Samir Central European University. 2022-02-21. www.ceu.edu.
  8. Web site: 2016-02-08. The gender politics of military service FifteenEightyFour Cambridge University Press. 2022-02-21. en-US.
  9. Geva. Dorit. 2015-07-01. Selective Service, the Gender-Ordered Family, and the Rational Informality of the American State. American Journal of Sociology. 121. 1. 171–204. 10.1086/681985. 147495849 . 0002-9602.
  10. Geva. Dorit. 2015-04-01. Dependency as a Keyword of the American Draft System and Persistence of Male-only Registration. Polity. 47. 2. 199–224. 10.1057/pol.2015.6. 152359164 . 0032-3497.
  11. Web site: Dorit Geva European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme 2018-2019. 2022-02-21. www.2018-2019.eurias-fp.eu.
  12. Web site: "A Beautiful Night with Marine:" Marine Le Pen and Gender-Hegemonic Charisma. 2022-02-21. www.europenowjournal.org. en-US.
  13. Web site: Schultheis. Emily. 2017-05-07. Marine Le Pen's Real Victory. 2022-02-21. The Atlantic. en.
  14. Web site: Undercurrents: Episode 89: Europe's far-right educational institutions. 2022-02-21. undercurrents.libsyn.com. en.
  15. Web site: Video: Dorit Geva on 'Orbán's Ordonationalism as Post-Neoliberal Hegemony'. 2022-02-21. Theory, Culture & Society Global Public Life. en-GB.
  16. Book: Geva, Dorit. Conscription, Family, and the Modern State: A Comparative Study of France and the United States. 2013. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-107-02498-4. Cambridge.