Joyce Mushaben is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri - St. Louis.  (website)

Holding a Ph.D from Indiana University, she has held Visiting Professorships at Washington University, the Ohio State University, at German universities in Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Erfurt and the Humboldt University of Berlin. She served as a resident scholar at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (Washington DC), the Hessian Foundation for Peace & Security Studies, the Center for Youth Research (Leipzig) and at the Chinese Academy for Social Sciences (Beijing).  Her publications cover studies of East and West German identity;  feminist, anti-nuclear and right-extremist movements; European immigration/integration policies; comparative welfare state developments; and a host of EU gender policies.  Her research has been funded, inter alia, by the Fulbright Commission,  the German Academic Exchange Service, the Ford Foundtion, the German Marshall Fund and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Her books include From Postwar to Post-Wall Generations: Changing Attitudes towards  the National Question and NATO in Germany (1998); The Changing Faces of Citizenship: Integration and Mobilization among Ethnic Minorities in Germany (2008); and Gendering the  European Union: New Approaches to Old Democratic Deficits (2012, co-edited with Gabriele Abels). 

A former Director of Women's & Gender Studies and President of the German Politics Association (USA), her professional experience has further included service on Executive Boards of the interdisciplinary German Studies Association, the International Association for the Study of German Politics, national Fulbright and Berlin Program Selection Committees, and the Alexander von Humboldt Association of the United States.

Nominator's Quote: "As part of the CES founding-generation (but still 'young & dynamic'), Mushaben has participated in nearly every (formerly biennial) CES meeting dating back to the early 1980s. She has mentored countless women in the US and Germany, is a dynamic speaker, and generates a sense of international community wherever she lands."