Isabelle Engeli is currently a lecturer in political science at the University of Geneva and will start in Fall 2011 at the University of Ottawa.
 
In 2008-2010, Isabelle was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. She has taught class on comparative public policy, comparative research design, comparative politics, gender and politics as well as political behavior and social movements at the European University Institute, University of Geneva and University of Lausanne.
 
Her research interest within the fields of comparative politics, public policy and political representation include agenda setting and policy change, political representation, as well as gender and morality politics.
Isabelle's Ph.D. dissertation examined the extent to which public controversies with a moral dimension, such as abortion and assisted reproductive technology, lead to significantly different types of government action. The study demonstrates the importance of taking into account the configurational impact of institutional interests and ideal factors to explain the evolution of public policies on controversial issues.

Her current research splits into two branches. First, she is analyzing, within ESF research projects, the dynamics of agenda setting and policy change. She is currently involved in the Comparative Policy Agendas Project (http://www.comparativeagendas.org), which aims at developing systematic quantitative analysis of issue attention and politicization in Europe and North America across time. She is also involves in a systematic comparative study of politicization and policy making on morality issues such as euthanasia, embryo and stem cell research and same-sex marriage across West European countries.
Second, she is working on political representation and the gender dynamics in elections. She analyzes compositional and conditional gender effect in turnout, political attitudes and women's access to elective bodies. In addition, she has a strong interest in comparative research design and methodology.

Isabelle has published on comparative public policy, political representation and electoral behavior. Besides her Ph.D. dissertation, Isabelle Engeli has recently co-edited a book on gender and public policy. Her work appears in Political Research Quarterly (forthcoming), Comparative European Politics, French Political Science Review, Swiss Political Science Review and in various books.