Joyce Marie Mushaben is a Curators’ Professor of Comparative Politics and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She has spent over 17 years researching in Germany,  focusing on East/West/multi-cultural “German” identities, European immigration and integration policies, EU gender policies, comparative welfare states, as well as on peace, ecology and Neo-Nazi youth movements. Her work has been generously funded over the years by the DAAD, the Fulbright Commission, the Ford Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, inter alia.  Her books include From Post-War to Post-Wall Generations: Changing Attitudes towards the National Question and NATO in the Federal Republic of 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, co-edited with Gabriele Abels (2012). Her current book-in-progress is titled Becoming Madam Chancellor: Angela Merkel and the Berlin Republic (forthcoming, 2016). In 1999 she received the Trailblazer’s Award for her contributions to gender equality at the UM-St. Louis; in 2007 she was honored with the Chancellor’s Award for Research Creativity, and in 2012 she became the recipient of the Governor’s Award for Teaching Excellence. One of only six women to be named Curators’ Research Professor during the 50-year history of the UM-St. Louis, she is commonly known as Dr. J.