Jill Niebrugge Brantley is a Scholar-in-Residence at The American University. Prior to coming to American University she was a Visiting Professor of Sociology at The University of Iowa and has also taught at several schools in the Washington, D.C. area.  She earned her BA at Pomona College and her PhD at the University of Kansas.  Her research interests are the history of sociology and social thought, sociological theory, sociology of gender, and the dynamics of race, class and gender stratification. She is co-author with Patricia Lengermann of The Women Founders: Sociology and Social Theory, 1830-1930 and several works in feminist sociological theory.  She and Pat are currently at work on a participant observation study using classical feminist theory to analyze the social movement arising in the wake of Hillary Clinton's 2008 Presidential campaign.