Dean of International Programs: Joanna Regulska, Ph.D.

Professor Joanna Regulska (Geography and Women's and Gender Studies) is the Dean of International Programs at Rutgers. In addition to teaching, she founded and directs the Local Democracy Partnership Program and was a co-director of the Program on Gender and Culture at the Central European University, Budapest. Most of her research and teaching concentrates on women’s agency, political activism, grassroots mobilization and construction of women’s political spaces. She has also conducted extensive work on the impacts of political and economic restructuring on democratization, citizens’ participation and decentralization in central and eastern Europe. Currently she is collaborating on Shaping Women’s Agenda and Public Discourses in the Enlarged Europe (in English); Cooperation or Conflict: State, Union and Women (in Polish) and with B. Smith, Reinventing Gender of Europe For her contributions to the development of local democracy, local government reform and empowerment of women in public life she was awarded, by the President of Poland, the Knight Cross of the Order of Restitution of the Republic of Poland and The Cavalier Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.