Joanna Regulska
Professor of Women’s Studies and Geography and Chair of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University

Professor Regulska is a Professor of Women’s Studies and Geography and is Chair of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. She is the founder and director since 1989 of the Local Democracy Partnership (formerly Local Democracy in Poland) Program, Rutgers University. In 1996-98 she was a co-director of the Program on Gender and Culture at the Central European University in Budapest. Most of her research and teaching concentrates on women’s agency, political activism, grassroots mobilization and construction of women’s political spaces beyond the nation-state. She has also conducted extensive work on the impacts of political and economic restructuring on the process of democratization, citizens’ participation and decentralization in Central and Eastern Europe. Her current multi-year project, supported by the National Science Foundation and conducted jointly with colleagues from Poland and the Czech Republic, focuses on women’s agency, the European Union and eastern enlargement. Her research and policy work has been extensively supported (over $9 million) by public institutions and private foundations. Most recently she has edited and/or co-edited Women’s Activism in Public Sphere (Wydawnictwo OSKA, 1999), Being Active (Wydawnictwo OSKA, 1998) and Informational Policy at the Local Level (1995, 2nd edition 1997). Currently she is working on two edited volumes, with Drs. Jasmina Lukic and Darja Zavirsek, Gender and Citizenship: Contentions and Controversies, and with Dr. Malgorzata Fuszara, Women’s Rights within the Context of European Integration. Dr. Regulska has published over 90 articles and chapters and has presented over 100 papers at national and international meetings of learned societies. Professor Regulska serves on the editorial boards of Environmental Planning C: Government and Policy, Samorzad Terytorialny (Local Government) and Katedra.