Associate Professor
Stephen Leacock Building, Room 713
855 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2T7
Tel.: 514-398-6851
Fax: 514-398-3403
E-Mail: kathleen [dot] fallon [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Kathleen Fallon)
Office: Leacock 835
Research Areas
Political Sociology; Social Movements; Gender; International Development; Africa
Biography
(Ph.D. Indiana University, 2002) Associate Professor, at McGill University since 2002.
Assistant Professor at McGill University since 2002. Professor Fallon interests lie within political sociology, international development, and gender studies. Specifically, she focuses on women’s social movements, women’s political rights, and democracy within sub-Saharan Africa, as well as other developing countries. She has done in-depth field research within Ghana, examining how democratization influenced both women’s rights and the emergence of the women’s movement. Additionally, through comparative analyses and using both qualitative and quantitative methods, she has explored how types of democratic transitions influence women’s political representation.
Selected Publications
Fallon, K. 2008. Democracy and the Rise of Women’s Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Viterna, J., Fallon K., and Beckfield J. (forthcoming). How Development Matters: A Research Note on the Relationship between Development Democracy, and Women’s Political Representation. International Journal of Comparative Sociology.
Viterna J., and Fallon K. (2008). Democratization, Women’s Movements, and Gender-Equitable States: A Framework for Comparison. American Sociological Review. 74 (3): 668 – 689.
Bradshaw, Y., K. Fallon,and J. Viterna. 2005. "Wiring the World: Access to Information Technology and Development in Poor Countries." in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 23: 375-397.
Fallon, K. 2004. "Using Informal Networks to Seek Formal Political Participation in Ghana.” in The Power of Informal Networks, edited by Mangala Subranamian and Bandana Purkayastha. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Fallon, K. 2003. "Getting Out the Vote: Mobilizing Women's Political Participation within the Emerging Democracy of Ghana." in Mobilization 8: 273-296
Fallon, K. 2003. "Transforming Women's Citizenship Rights within an Emerging Democratic State: The Case of Ghana." in Gender and Society. Vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 525-544.
Fallon, K. 2003. "The State of Women in Ghana." in A. M. Tripp and L. Walter (eds.), Women's Issues Worldwide Series,. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishers.
Fernández-Kelley, P. and K. M. Fallon. 2000. "Gender: How is Golbalization Affecting Inequalities between Men and Women?" in Y. Bradshaw, J. Healey and R. Smith (eds.), Sociology for a New Century. Boston: Pine Forge Press, pp. 239-274.
Courses Taught
Undergraduate Courses:
SOCI 270: Sociology of Gender
SOCI 370: Gender & Development
SOCI 489: Gender, Deviance, & Social Control
Graduate Seminars:
SOCI 530: Sex and Gender
Research Grants
2004-2007 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada: Standard Research Grant: “Women, Democratization, and Political Participation in Ghana”
2003-2006 Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture: “Women’ s Organizations, Development, and the Use of Information Technology: A Case Study of Ghana”
2002-2004 Research Development Fund for a New Researcher: McGill Internal Grant