Julie Mostov

Position:	Professor of Political Science & Associate Vice Provost for International Programs
Field:	Political theory, Feminist theory, Southeastern Europe
Office:	Randell Hall, Suite 235
Phone:	(215) 895-6793
Email:	mostovj@drexel.edu
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Personal Statement

I am the Associate Vice Provost for International Programs, and a Professor of Political Science at Drexel University. I specialize in studies on the politics of national identity, sovereignty, citizenship, and gender and I have a particular interest in Southeastern Europe .

My recent publications promote the notion of soft-borders, transnational citizenship, and relational sovereignty, and explore gender and sexuality in the politics of national identity. Publications related to this work include, Soft Borders: Rethinking Sovereignty and Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, May, 2008) as well as my book with Rada Ivekovic, From Gender to Nation, (University of Bologna/Longo Editore, 2002 and Zubaan Press 2004); "Soft Borders and Transnational Citizens;" "'Our Women''/'Their Women': Symbolic Boundaries, Territorial Markers, and Violence in the Balkans;" "Sexing/ Desexing the Nation/Body;" and "Women and the Radical Right: Ethnocracy and Body Politics."

In addition to this academic research, I have been actively involved in development projects in Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, and Moldova, and programs and grants to stop violence against women in the U.S. and abroad.

Education

A.B., Political Science, Mount Holyoke College,1972
M.A., Political Philosophy, University of Belgrade, 1980
Ph.D., Political Theory, New York University, 1985

Recent Publications

Soft Borders: Rethinking Sovereignty, and Democracy (New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2008).
From Gender to Nation. Co-editor with Rada Ivekovic, (New Delhi, India: reissued by Zubaan Press, 2004).
Power, Process, and Popular Sovereignty. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992).

Courses Usually Taught

PSCI 120 -- History of Political Thought
PSCI 323 -- Comparative Political Though
PSCI 329 -- Theories of Justice