Laurel Weldon

Background

About Laurel Weldon

Weldon (University of Pittsburgh, is Distinguished SFU Full Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University in Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She was previously Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of the Purdue Policy Research Institute (PPRI) at Purdue University in Indiana, USA. In 2015, Weldon held the O’Brien Residential Fellowship in the Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism at McGill University, Canada. She is founding co-editor of the journal Politics, Groups and Identities, and together with a team of eleven others, will take up the editorship of the American Political Science Review in Summer 2020. At Purdue University, she was founding Director of the Center for Research on Diversity and Inclusion (2012-2015), interim Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs (2013-2014) and (very briefly) Acting Provost (2014). Professor Weldon’s work focuses on the role of social movements in influencing public policy; on violence against women; representation and public policy; women, work and poverty; and on comparative and international research that is global in scope. Weldon has won numerous awards, including, most recently, the Best Book Award from the Human Rights Section of the International Studies Association for her 2018 book The Logics of Gender Justice co-authored with Mala Htun. She has consulted for international organizations such the UN and the World Bank as well as national, state, local and Indigenous governments.