Frader’s research focuses on the historical and cultural foundations of social inequality, particularly gender inequality. A current project focuses on the history of gender equality policies of the European community since the Treaty of Rome (1957) and their impacts on member states. A second project examines the place of gender and racial difference in French colonial thinking and practice.
Frader is a faculty associate at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, where she is Co-chair of the European Politics Seminar. She is also a founding member of the Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies (currently based at MIT). Frader has held visiting professorships at the Ecole des Hautes études en Sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, at the University de Paris VIII, and at the University of Aston, Birmingham, UK. At Northeastern she teaches undergraduate courses on Imperialism and Colonialism; Gender and Society in Modern Europe; and Nations, Nationalism and Globalization. Her graduate courses include historical methodology; gender, colonialism, and post-colonialism; and gender and society in the modern world.
This information is accurate for the time period that the affiliate is affiliated with CES.
Affiliations
Professor of History, Northeastern University
CES Seminar Co-chair & Local Affiliate, Harvard University