Kristine works with Shahra Razavi on projects of gender and development, specifically relating to gender-egalitarian policy change. She compiles and edits resources for ongoing projects on religion, politics and gender, employment and social protection, informal markets, the social economy of care, and women's economic and social rights.
Prior to joining UNRISD, Kristine worked on various projects related to gender quotas, women's political participation, human rights and authoritarianism at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. She has worked as a researcher at the Center of Arab Women for Training and Research (CAWTAR) in affiliation with UN-INSTRAW (UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women) in Tunis, Tunisia, continuing the research she started during her period as a Fulbright scholar in Tunisia. Additionally, she worked on evaluations and contracts at USAID's Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance bureau in Washington, DC. She completed an MSc in Development Studies at Lund University and a BA in Political Science and French at Bates College in the United States.
Her research interests include social and political change in North Africa and the Middle East, gender quotas and state-sponsored feminism in Scandinavia and the Middle East, the interface between the state and civil society, and state human rights abuses.
Recent Publications:
- "Gendered Impacts of Globalization: Employment and Social Protection." with S. Razavi, C. Arza, E. Braunstein and S. Cook (UNRISD, Geneva, 2012)
- "Arab Spring, Islamist Summer ... Feminist Fall?" (openDemocracy, October 2011)
- "Fear the Islamists, and the secularists too? Tunisian women in post-Arab Spring electoral politics" (UNRISD, Geneva, 2011)
- "Tunisia: Will democracy be good for women's rights?" (openDemocracy, June 2011)
- "Unjustifiable Means to Unjustifiable Ends: Delegitimizing Parliamentary Gender Quotas in Tunisia." al-Raida (Issue 126-127, 2010)
- "Mandated Spaces for Marginalized Faces: Gender Quotas in the Middle East." (Lund University Center for Middle Eastern Studies: Lund, Sweden, 2010)
- "Discourses of Domination: Women's Political Rights, Human Rights Abuses and Strategic Politics of Public Legitimacy in Tunisia." (Lund University Press: Lund, Sweden, 2010)
- "The Quandary of Gender Quotas in Tunisia: Representations and Perceptions at the Local Level." (CAWTAR/UN-INSTRAW: Tunis, Tunisia, 2010)