Ewa K. Strzelecka is a Visiting Fellow at VU Amsterdam and an Assistant Professor at the University of Wrocław (Poland). Previously, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie researcher at VU Amsterdam, where she led the EU-funded research project 'Rethinking Peace-building: Women, Revolution, Exile, and Conflict Resolution in Yemen.' She has also served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Granada, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Nova University of Lisbon (Portugal), and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). Additionally, she has held Visiting Scholar positions in India, South Africa, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Spain, the UK, the US, Yemen, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Western Sahara, Mozambique, and Bolivia.
With a PhD in Social and Political Science, four Master's degrees and equivalent studies in Cultural and Religious Studies, Social Anthropology, Gender and International Development, and Migration and Social Intervention, Ewa's academic expertise transcends disciplinary boundaries between political science, social anthropology, gender, migration, and peace studies. She has worked at the crossroads of academic research, development practice, and policy advising in more than 15 countries across the globe.
Ewa K. Strzelecka has received several prestigious awards for her research work in Yemen and beyond, including the Spanish Association of Political Science (AECPA) Prize for the Most Outstanding Book Chapter (2019); the Extraordinary PhD Award from the University of Granada (2018); the AECPA Proxime Accessit Prize for the Best PhD Thesis in Political Science (2017); the Politeya Award for the Best Manuscript from the Spanish National Research Council (2016); and the Juan J. Linz Proxime Accessit Prize for the Best PhD Thesis from the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies (CEPC), Spanish Ministry of Presidency (2015).
She is the author of Mujeres en la Primavera Árabe: construcción de una cultura política de resistencia feminista en Yemen (Women in the Arab Spring: the Construction of a Political Culture of Feminist Resistance in Yemen, CSIC, 2017).
Her primary research interests encompass conflict and peace-building, refugees and forced migration, women's movements, gender justice, diversity, human rights, revolutions, transnational activism, international development, feminist foreign policy, and the complexity of social and political change in and beyond the Middle East and North Africa.
