has taught comparative and North American politics at Freie Universität Berlin since 1990 and is an Associate Fellow at the Center for Metropolitan Studies at Technical University Berlin. Her research focuses on comparative politics, urban and social politics, and social movements. She has published on various aspects of contemporary urban politics, urban theory, (welfare) state restructuring, and social movements. She co-authored Nonprofits in the Transformation of Employment Policies (2004), co-edited Urban Movements in a Globalising World (2000), Cities for People not for Profit (2013), Neoliberal Urbanism and Its Contestations (2013), and Urban Uprisings: Challenging the neoliberal city in Europe (2016). Email: mayer@zedat.fu-berlin.de