Diana Zoelle, Ph.D.

Phone: (570) 389-4919
Fax: (570) 389-2094
E-mail: dzoelle@bloomu.edu
Office: 213A Bakeless Center for Humanities

 

Diana Zoelle is Associate Professor of Political Science at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. She holds a PhD (1997) and an MA (1993) in Political Theory from University of Maryland – College Park, an MPA (1990) from University of Missouri – Columbia, a BS (1987) in Public Administration from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, and an AAS (1985) in Accounting from Butler County Community College.

Her areas of specialization are human rights, feminist political theory, normative political theory, and public administration. Her book, Globalizing Concern for Women’s Human Rights: The Failure of the American Model (New York, St. Martin’s Press, 2000), analyzes and critiques the sociopolitical, economic and legal systems of the United Sates in that they have “precluded the incorporation of the rights of women on an equal basis with the rights of men.” Her current focus is the investigation of pragmatic approaches to protection of women’s human rights – the linguistic innovations that are the function of the United Nations in the absence of transcendent “Truth.” Zoelle was a consultant to the Fund for Peace Women’s Program in Washington, DC, 1993-94. She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Notre Dame (1995-1997) in the Joan B Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. At Bloomsburg, she teaches courses in History of Political Thought, American Political Thought, Globalization and the United Nations, Women’s Human Rights, and Feminist Political Theory. She also advises the Bloomsburg University Model United Nations Student Organization, which she founded in 2002.

Curriculum vitae (pdf)


Books

Globalizing Concern for Women’s Human Rights: The Failure of the American Model (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000).


Peer-reviewed Articles/Book Chapters

“Promoting Freedom from Poverty: Political Mobilization and the Role of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union” Feminist Review, 82, 2006 (with Jyl Josephson).

“Making Democratic Space for Poor People: The Kensington Welfare Rights Union,” in Charting Transnational Democracy : Beyond Global Arrogance, eds. Janie Leatherman and Julie A. Webber (New York, Palgrave, 2005).(with Jyl Josephson)


Other articles and reviews:

“Human Rights: Women” Encyclopedia of Issues in US Public Policy, Cengage Learning, 2008.

“History of Women’s Human Rights” Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Oxford University Press, 2007.

“(Re) Playing Reality: Using Movies as Simulations in International Relations Classrooms” PS: Political Science & Politics, 2008.

Rosiska Darcy de Oliviera. “In Praise of Difference: Emergence of a Global Feminism,” for National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 2001.

“Rights of Women: A Guide to the Most Important United Nations Treaties on Women’s Human Rights,” for National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 1999.

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