Professor
of Diplomacy and World Affairs,
Occidental
College
Contact
info:
jsjaquet@oxy.edu
Jane S. Jaquette is Professor of Politics Emerita (2005) at Occidental
College. A specialist in international relations and
Latin America, she did her undergraduate degree in
Political Science at Swarthmore College (1964) and her
Ph.D. at Cornell University (1971), where she wrote her
dissertation on the politics of development in Peru.
She began teaching at Occidental College in 1969 and,
shifting her focus to women’s issues, edited a
comparative anthology on women and politics (1974),
while continuing to publish on contemporary Peru. From
1979 to 1981 she worked as a policy analyst in the Women
in Development (WID) Office at the US Agency for
International Development (USAID).
At Occidental, Jaquette was actively involved in college governance,
serving several terms on the tenure and promotions and
curriculum committees and as chair of the College’s Core
program. She received the outstanding junior and senior
faculty awards at Occidental, and was named the Bertha
Harton Orr Professor in the Liberal Arts in 1992. As
chair of the Diplomacy and World Affairs department from
1995 to 2003, she helped it expand from two to four full
time faculty members and worked to involve students in
departmental governance, encouraging the resuscitation
of Perspectives, now a biannual journal of
student essays on international issues. In 2005, Dr.
Jaquette gave up full time teaching to devote more time
to research and writing; she resumed teaching part time
at Occidental in 2007
Dr.
Jaquette has edited six books and published more than
fifty articles on topics ranging from Peruvian politics
in the 1960s and 70s and international feminism to
political theory, with a special emphasis on women’s
movements and democratization in Latin America. Her
essays have appeared in World Politics, Foreign
Policy, Signs, Journal of Democracy,
International Feminist Journal of Politics and in
many collections. Her edited and co-edited books include
The Women’s Movement in Latin America: Feminism and
the Transition to Democracy (1989); The Women’s
Movement and Latin America: Participation and
Democracy (1994); Women and Democracy: Latin
America and Central and Eastern Europe (1998);
and Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and
Practice (2006). Her manuscript, Defending
Realism: Power and Citizenship in Machiavelli and Hobbes,
is under review. She is currently editing a new book on
contemporary feminist activism in Latin America, to be
published by Duke University Press.
In
addition to her governance responsibilities at
Occidental, Jaquette served as president of the
Association for Women in Development (AWID) in 1990-91,
and as president of the 4,000-member Latin American
Studies Association (LASA) from 1995 to 1997. She has
been a visiting fellow at Nuffield College (Oxford), the
Women and Public Policy Program at the John F. Kennedy
School, Harvard, the Latin American Program at Stanford,
and FLACSO (Chile), and is an Adjunct Professor
(Research) at the Watson Institute for International
Studies at Brown University. In 2005 she was recognized
by the Status of Women Commission and the City Council
of Los Angeles for her work on international women’s
issues. She is a founding member of the Pacific Council
on International Policy and a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations as well as several other professional
associations.
