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Monika Gabriela Bartoszewicz ( Polish pronunciation: [mɔˈɲi.ka ɡabˈrʲjɛ.la bar.tɔˈʂɛ.vʲit͡ʂ], née Dąbrowska [dɔmˈbrɔf.ska]; born 1980 in Łódź, Poland) – Polish political scientist, scholar of international relations and international security, awarded with PhD in international relations, academic lecturer and publicist.

Education
Graduated in international relations at the Faculty of International and Political Studies at the University of Łódź (Poland) and International Security Studies at the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews (Scotland). She was an intern at the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. She was a research assistant of the European Survey of Youth Mobilization – an international research project on youth radicalization on the European continent. In 2011, she conducted an independent study for the Scottish Prison Services on the radicalisation of converts to Islam in prisons.

She received her PhD in 2013 at the University of St Andrews on the basis of her doctoral disseration Controversies of Conversions: Exploring the Potential Terrorist Threat of European Converts to Islam,  which analyses the potential terrorist threat posed by European converts to Islam. To this end, she conducted an interdisciplinary fieldwork on this issue, as well as on issues of identity and belonging considered from a security perspective, in Scotland, England, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Poland.

Teaching
She was an E.MA Fellow and a lecturer of international relations at the European Interuniversity Center for Human Rights and Democratization (Centro Europeo Inter-universitario per i Diritti Umani e la Democratizzazione) in Venice (Italy) (2011–2013), visiting lecturer at the Jagiellonian University (2015–2016), assistant professor and lecturer at the Vistula University in Warsaw (2015–2017). Since 2018, she has been an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science at the of Masaryk University (Fakulta sociálních studií Masarykovy univerzity) in Brno (Czech Republic).

Research and contribution to knowledge
The axis of her research interests is international security with particular emphasis on political violence in asymmetric conflicts, specifically in contemporary Islamic terrorism (especially related to jihadism), and her field of expertise is the diagnosis and counteracting radicalisation and terrorist activity of European converts to Islam. In her dissertation, she presents, among others, her own concept of threat assessment for converts to Islam based on a typology taking into account the motivational structure of potential terrorists.

Another focus of her work is research on non-linear and cross-sectoral security threats in the context of the emerging fortress Europe (“Festung Europa”), mainly in lieu of securitisation of migration and the terrorist threat on the continent. Her theses are a continuation of the Copenhagen School aproach and focus on the ramifications of threats present at the sub-state level (societal security), especially in the context of cultural security.

Other roles and memberships
She is an expert and evaluator of is an expert at the European Commission’s Research Executive Agency (REA), the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Foundation for Polish Science expert, and a scientific reviewer for, among others „Journal of Terrorism Research”, „International Journal of Pedagogy, Innovation and New Technologies”, „Securitologia”, and a member of the academic board of the „Oriental Law Review”.

She participates in the works of the National Advisory Group as part of the European Commission's DARE program (Dialogue About Radicalisation and Equality), devoted to the extreme right, as well as Islamist radicalisation processes and their consequences for Europe.

Shee is also a member of scientific societies, including British International Studies Association (BISA) in Birmingham and Center for Security Research (CeSeR) in Edinburgh.

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