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     Christina Ewig


Title: Assistant Professor
Website: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/cewig/web
Joint Appt: Women's Studies
Office: 107A Ingraham Hall
Office Hours: By Appointment
Phone: (608) 262-9622
Has Voicemail: Yes
E-Mail: cewig@wisc.edu
Keywords: Democratization, Development, Gender, Health Policy, Latin America, Political Economy, Public Policy, Social Policy


Christina Ewig has a joint appointment in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies and Political Science. She teaches courses on Latin American politics, gender and politics, global feminisms, and comparative gender and welfare policy.  Her research centers on gender, race and social policy in Latin America. She has a book under contract with Pennsylvania State University Press in which she analyses the politics of neoliberal health sector reforms and their impacts on women’s lives in Peru. She also has a second project underway which compares the politics of health reforms and their effects on gender equity in Peru, Mexico, Colombia and Chile. In addition to contributions to edited volumes, she has published articles in the Latin American Research Review, Social Politics, and Feminist Studies. Her research has been supported by a Fulbright New Century Scholars award and a Rockefeller residential fellowship.
 


Recent Publications

Christina Ewig: “Gender Equity and Health Sector Reform in Colombia: Mixed State-Market Model Yields Mixed Results” (with Amparo Hernández Bello). 2009. Social Science & Medicine 68(6):1145-1152.   
Christina Ewig (and Stephen J. Kay): “New Political Legacies and the Politics of Health and Pension Re-reforms in Chile.” In Daniel Béland and Brian Gran, eds., Public and Private Social Policy: Health and Pension Policies in a New Era (New York: Palgrave, 2008), pp. 249-268.   
Christina Ewig “Reproduction, Re-reform and the Reconfigured State: Feminists and Neoliberal Health Reforms in Chile.” In Isabella Bakker and Rachel Silvey, eds., Beyond States and Markets: The Challenges of Social Reproduction (New York: Routledge Press, 2008).