Social Science Research Council
Yasmine Ergas is consultant to the Council for program development and external relations. Between 1985 and 1991, Yasmine served on the Council’s staff, where she led the initiative to establish a program on the social consequences of the AIDS epidemic and staffed the Committee on Western Europe.
Yasmine holds honors degrees in sociology from the Universities of Sussex and Rome and a J.D. from the Law School of Columbia University, where she also received a certificate for achievement with honors from the Parker Program in International and Foreign Law. She has been a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a research associate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard, and a Pembroke Fellow at Brown University. In addition, she was an articles editor of the Columbia Law Review and has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation and the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Padova, has taught at the Universities of Bari and Macerata and has served as a consultant for numerous international organizations including the OECD, WHO and UNESCO. As a member of the Committee on International Trade of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Yasmine led a project on child labor and international trade. She has also served on the Committee on World Sociology and the international Research Planning Group on Gender Politics and Public Policies. She was a founding editor of Memoria: rivista di storia delle donne. Yasmine’s publications include Nelle maglie della politica (Milan: 1986), “Growing Up Banished: A Reading of Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum,” now in the anthology edited by Harold Bloom, The Diary of Anne Frank (Philadelphia: 1999), “The Subject of Women” in M.Perrot and G.Duby (general editors) A History of Women (Cambridge: 1994); and “Child Care Policies in Comparative Perspective” in OECD, Lone Parents: The Economic Challenge (Paris: 1990). Her essays have been translated into numerous languages including Portuguese, Japanese, French and German.
In her capacity as an attorney, Yasmine has served on the staff of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and Studio Legale Grande-Stevens Pedersoli.
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