Department of Women's and Gender Studies 162 Ryders Lane Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08903

CURRENT POSITIONS 2001 - Chair, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University 1998 - Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies and Geography Rutgers University 1989 - Director, Local Democracy Partnership, Rutgers University

RESEARCH INTERESTS Broadly defined my research focuses on democratization as it has been exemplified at the local level and on the role that diverse actors state, civil society and market-play in this process. Specifically, my scholarly inquiries address three distinct but interrelated areas: 1) the process of decentralization and devolution of power during the regime changes, 2) the policy implications of such changes, and 3) the role that gender relations play in these processes.

Books, Dissertations 2006 (Forthcoming) With Jasmina Lukic and Darja Zavirsek (eds.) Women and Citizenship in Central and East Europe. Ashgate Publisher.

1999 With Agata Zakrzewska and Ann Graham, Being Effective in Public Life, (Wydawnictwo OSKA, Warsaw, 1999) 125 pages.

1998 With Agata Zakrzewska and Ann Graham, Being Active (Wydawnictwo OSKA, Warsaw, 1998) 174 pages.

1995 Informational Policy at the Local Level. (Wydawnictwo Samorzadowe, Warsaw, Poland, in Polish) 206 pages. (Second edition, 1997).

1982 Women's Role in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Migration Trends. PhD Dissertation.

1977 Theory and Practice of British Planning System. Warsaw, Poland: Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee for Space Economy and Regional Planning. 70 pages.