Camilla Reuterswärd

Kort presentation

Dr. Reuterswärd's research focuses on gender and politics with emphasis on the politics of contentious gender policies such as abortion and same-sex rights in developing contexts. Within this area, her work centers on party politics, social movements, and religious institutions with an empirical focus on Latin America. She has published work in Comparative Politics, European Journal of Politics & Gender, Social Politics, Latin American Politics & Society, and Development & Change, among others.

Biografi

Dr Reuterswärd obtained her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019 and begun a post-doctoral fellowship at the SCRIPTS Cluster, Freie Universität zu Berlin, the same year. Prior to joining the Department of Government at Uppsala University, she was a Research Fellow at the Governance Cluster at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. She holds a Bachelor degree in Political Science with emphasis on Development Studies from Uppsala University.

Forskning

Dr Reuterswärd's work focuses primarily on moral or doctrinal gender policies, that is, gender equality policies that include a contentious moral component. Her work has focused mostly on abortion politics, where she has interests in understanding the behavior of different parties as well as political regimes. She is also interested in institutions broadly conceived, e.g. the design of laws and policies, but also how issues such as abortion feature in constitutions and their design. Beyond these areas, Dr. Reuterswärd has an interest in social movements, both liberal and conservative activism as it relates to doctrinal gender policies, as well as in the field of religion and politics, where her research focuses primarily on the political influence of organized religion, especially the Catholic Church.