Gefjon Off, PhD

I am excited to be developing and teaching my own full bachelor-level courses in Comparative Politics/ Political Behavior with a gender perspective.

First, I teach a “Gender and Politics” course considering gender differences in political behavior, gendered political candidate recruitment, gender quotas, violence against women in politics, role model effects and backlash dynamics against feminism. The course guides students in conducting their own empirical research on a related topic.

Second, my course on the “Political Behavior of Marginalized Groups” considers theories of representation, intersectionality and social identity, the political behavior of different genders, ethnic minorities, disabled people and LGB people. The course entails an introduction to basic descriptive visualization of quantitative survey data in R, teaching students to visualize group differences in political behavior.

Third, I teach “Introduction to Political Science” at the bachelor level, and fourth, a seminar guiding students in developing their own research project at the master level.

Previously, I have taught on courses in Political Science, European Studies, research design and quantitative methods in English, Swedish and German language.

I enjoy supervising students in writing their Bachelor and Master theses in the fields of political behavior, the populist radical right, and gender and politics.