Draft:Ewa K. Strzelecka

Ewa K. Strzelecka is a scholar specialising in peace and conflict studies, social anthropology, political science, international development, gender studies, and refugee studies. She is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. Previously, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Background
Ewa K. Strzelecka was born in Poland and grew up in a family affected by political repression and forced displacement. She has studied and documented revolutionary and protest movements in various countries, including Yemen, Western Sahara, Egypt, Bolivia, Spain, and her native Poland.

Her research work focuses on global issues such as poverty, inequality, injustice, forced migration, refugees, conflicts, and peacebuilding, conducted in over 15 countries worldwide.

Education
Ewa K. Strzelecka holds a PhD degree in Social Science from the University of Granada, with a thesis titled "Género, Cultura, Islam y Desarrollo: Construcción de una Cultura Política de Resistencia Feminista en Yemen," (Gender, Culture, Islam and Development: the Construction of a Political Culture of Feminist Resistance in Yemen) completed in 2015 at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration.

She also holds Master's degrees in Cultural and Religious Studies, Social Anthropology, Gender and International Development, and Migration and Social Intervention. Her education included long-term fellowships at the Department of Gender Studies at SOAS in London, UK, and Arabic studies in Egypt and Yemen.

Career
Ewa K. Strzelecka has held various academic positions, including Research Associate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Granada, Postdoctoral Researcher at the NOVA University Lisbon, and Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. She has also been a researcher at the University of Granada and a lecturer at the Complutense University of Madrid. Additionally, she has held visiting scholar positions in Poland, Germany, Spain, the UK, the US, Yemen, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Western Sahara, Mozambique, and Bolivia.

Between 2021 and 2024, she led the EU-funded Peace Women project: "Rethinking Peace-building: Women, Revolution, Exile, and Conflict Resolution in Yemen," which examines the roles of female refugees and exiled activists in revolutions and peace efforts.

Ewa K. Strzelecka is also an award-winning author with a thematic focus on topics such as peace-building, women's rights movements, refugees, forced migration, development, gender justice, human rights, diversity, revolutions, feminist foreign policy, and socio-political change in and beyond the Middle East and North Africa. Her book, "Women in the Arab Spring: The Construction of a Political Culture of Feminist Resistance in Yemen" (Mujeres en la Primavera Árabe: construcción de una cultura política de resistencia feminista en Yemen), published by CSIC Press in 2017, provides insights into the role of women activists in the 2011 Yemeni uprising, and highlights the construction of a political culture of feminist resistance in the face of political turmoil.

Ewa K. Strzelecka has worked as an expert in policy advising and development practice globally. She is an associate fellow at the Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO-Bonn), Germany.

Publications
Ewa K. Strzelecka is the author of several publications focusing on peace-building, women's rights movements, refugees, forced migration, development, gender justice, human rights, diversity, revolutions, feminist foreign policy, and socio-political change. Notable works include:
 * Women in the Arab Spring: the Construction of a Political Culture of Feminist Resistance in Yemen (Mujeres en la Primavera Árabe: construcción de una cultura política de resistencia feminista en Yemen), 2017.
 * Gender, Culture, Islam and Development: the Construction of a Political Culture of Feminist Resistance in Yemen (Género, Cultura, Islam y Desarrollo: Construcción de una Cultura Política de Resistencia Feminista en Yemen), 2015.
 * Economy and Human Development: multidisciplinary perspectives (Economía y desarrollo humano:Visiones desde distintas disciplinas, co-authored with J. Guardiola and G. Gagliardini), 2009.

Awards and Recognition
Ewa K. Strzelecka has received several awards and prizes, including:


 * Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship; her project proposal in the ST-SOC category ranked in the top 1% of over 11,500 applicants in 2020;
 * Spanish Association of Political Science (AECPA) Prize for the Most Outstanding Book Chapter (2019);
 * Extraordinary PhD Award from the University of Granada (2018);
 * AECPA Proxime Accessit Prize for the Best PhD Thesis in Political Science (2017);
 * Politeya Award for the Best Manuscript from the Spanish National Research Council (2016).
 * 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).