Jill A IrvineJill Irvine is Presidential Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is founding director and currently co-director of the OU Center for Social Justice. Irvine received her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University Her teaching and research interests include social movements, political mobilization, and transnational activism, with a focus on gender. She has written numerous books, articles, chapters andgovernment reports on ethno-religious movements and democratic transformations in Eastern Europe. Her work has been supported among other funding agencies by the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, The Fulbright Scholar Program, the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, and the International Research and Exchanges Board. Read More Read Less