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| Leah Seppanen Anderson
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Assistant Professor, Politics and International Relations
On faculty since 2003
Phone: (630) 752-5876
Fax: (630) 752-7037
Email: Leah.S.Anderson@wheaton.edu
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Ph.D., Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2003.
M.A., Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1999.
B.A., Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, 1995, summa cum laude.
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Professional and Personal Interests
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Anderson was first attracted to the study of politics when the Berlin Wall collapsed and communist countries embarked on the construction of new political regimes. Her fascination with political transition and, for some countries in the region, democratization, led her to focus her graduate study and research on democratic theory and Central European politics. She studied Czech social policy for a year (2000-2001) in Prague, Czech Republic on a Fulbright Fellowship and returned to Prague in the summer of 2005 to begin a new research project on the creation of healthcare policy in other Central European states, with the Slovak Republic next on the list. Dr. Anderson is also interested in Central European states, the European Union, women in politics, and feminism.
Some of Dr. Anderson's favorite things are live music, traveling, and successfully growing flowers. She and her husband, Nate, a fiction and free-lance writer, are active members of a local church.
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Comparative Public Policy
Postcommunist Politics
Introduction to Comparative Politics
European Politics
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Membership in Professional Societies
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American Political Science Association, 1999 to present
Christians in Political Science, 2000 to present
International Studies Association, 2003 to present
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Research
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Individual: comparative health policy, postcommunist politics, European Union, gender and politics.
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Anderson, Leah Seppanen. "EU Gender Regulations in East: The Czech and Polish Accession Process," East European Politcs and Societies, February 2006.
Anderson, Nate and Leah Seppanen Anderson. "New Nations, Old Problems: Why Eastern Europe's Evangelicals are Growing against the Odds" Christianity Today, October 2005.
Anderson, Leah Seppanen. "Constructing Policy
Networks: Social Assistance Reform in the Czech Republic."
International Journal of Public Administration vol. 26, 2003.
"EU Legitimacy in the East: Gender Equality Regulation and EU Enlargement," Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Association, Chicago, IL, April 15-April 18, 2004.
"International and Domestic Effects on Postcommunist Welfare State Development," Junior Scholars Training Seminar, Wye River, Maryland, August 2003. Conference sponsored by East European Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC.
"Regulating Women and
the Family: Czech Policy-making Since 1989." Annual Meeting
of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 21-24, 2002.
Anderson, Leah Seppanen. 2001. "Complex Policy Networks:
The International, National, and Local Forces Shaping Social
Policy Reform in the Czech Republic." Annual Meeting
of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco,
August 30-September 2.
Seppanen, Leah. 2001. "Social Policy Reform in the Czech
Republic, 1989 to the Present." Gender Studies Center
Research Methodologies Seminar, Prague, Czech Republic, March
6.
Seppanen, Leah. 1999. "Where are the Women? Lessons from
Postcommunist Feminism in the Former German Democratic Republic
and Former Czechoslovakia, 1989-1996." Southern Political
Science Association Annual Meeting, Savannah, Georgia, November
5.
Seppanen, Leah. 1998. "Feminism after the Fall: The Women's
Movements in Central Europe Since 1989." Piedmont Slavic
Colloquium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, October
22.
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