Dorit GevaDorit Geva is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University. She received a PhD in sociology at New York University. Geva was the Vincent Wright Fellow in Comparative Politics at the Robet Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (2006-7) and spent four years as a Harper Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago (2007-11) teaching social theory in the College Core. Her work has been published in Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and Society; The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science; and Armed Forces and Society. She is a member of the American Sociological Association, the Council for European Studies, the American Political Science Association, ATGENDER (the European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation) and the Social Science History Association. Funding for the research in this book was provided by the Social Science Research Council's International Dissertation and Research Fellowship, a US National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant and the US Department of Education's Foreign Languages and Area Studies fellowship. Read More Read Less