Dr Ewa K. Strzelecka

Ewa K. Strzelecka is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and a member of the EU-funded Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Wrocław (Poland), a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), and an Associate Fellow at the German think tank CARPO: Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient. She is a former Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands). She has previously held academic positions in Spain, Portugal and South Africa, and has undertaken visiting fellowships in more than sixteen countries, including the UK, USA, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Spain, Yemen, Israel/Palestine, Western Sahara, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, India, Mozambique and Bolivia. She has worked at the intersection of academic research, peace and development practice, and policy advising in over fifteen countries worldwide.
 

Holding a PhD in Social and Political Science and four Master’s degrees or equivalent diplomas in Cultural and Religious Studies, Social Anthropology, Gender and International Development, and Migration and Social Intervention, Ewa’s expertise spans political science, social anthropology, gender, migration, and peace and conflict studies.

She is an award-winning author whose work focuses on conflict and peacebuilding, women’s rights movements, feminist foreign policy, refugees and forced migration, development, gender justice, human rights, diversity, revolutions, diplomacy, and the complexity of socio-political change in and beyond the Middle East and North Africa. An expanded version of her prize-winning PhD thesis was published as 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).

 
Between 2021 and 2024, she led the EU-funded MSCA-IF Peace Women project: Rethinking Peace-building: Women, Revolution, Exile, and Conflict Resolution in Yemen, advancing both scholarly understanding and policy practice in gender-responsive peacebuilding in Yemen and internationally.

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