Position Title
FRI Advisory Board Member
Vice Provost and Dean of Global Affairs
Distinguished Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies
Joanna Regulska has published on transnational women’s political agency, the spatiality of political activism, states’ visible and invisible violence against women and decentralization reforms. She is the author and co-author of eight books, among them Between Mayor and Vicar: Women’s Role in Polish Local Government (1990-2016) (with M. Grabowska and E. Rekosz-Cebula, Warsaw, Poland 2018); Women and Gender in Postwar Europe: From Cold War to European Union (with B. Smith, eds., Routledge 2012) and the author of over one-hundred articles and chapters. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the European Commission, the Ford Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, Andrew Mellon Foundation and other funding agencies. She co-established graduate degree programs in gender studies at the Central European University, Hungary and the Tbilisi State University, Georgia. In recognition of her scholarly contributions, she received the 2022 Outstanding Achievement Award from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies.
Related to her role as leader of UC Davis Global Affairs, she has initiated and led diverse educational, research and partnership projects and programs, around the world. For these contributions, the institutions where she worked received awards: NAFSA’s Paul Simon Award, APLU's Comprehensive Internationalization, and AIEA's Innovative Excellence in Internationalization. She was awarded the First Institute of International Education SIO of the Year Award (2019), was inducted into the National Academy of International Education (2021) and received the Charles Klasek Award for Outstanding Service to the Field of International Higher Education (2022). Currently, she serves as a member of NAFSA’s Board of Directors and as Vice President for Public Policy and Practice, and as a member of the University of Montpellier’s First International Advisory Board, among other appointments. For more than three decades Regulska has led large-scale programs that have transformed institutions, established collaborative partnerships, and substantially improved globally focused services for students, faculty, and staff—and has raised more than $9 million in public and private project support.