Person

Wejnert, Barbara

1956

Geboren in Polen

Barbara Wejnert is an Associate Professor in the Department of Transnational Studies, founding chair of the department of Global Gender Studies at the University at Buffalo and a former faculty member and director of academic program at Cornell University. She is an author of 10 books (the last Diffusion of Democracy published with the Cambridge University Press), and nearly 70 scholarly articles and chapters in academic books. Her research concerns worldwide diffusion of democracy, and the effects of democratization on the well-being of societies, especially on women and girls.

"My title: Associate Professor, Department of Transnational Studies, State University of New York, University at Buffalo. I never changed name: Barbara Wejnert is my name. I was born in 1956."

2008-present Associate Professor, Department of Transnational Studies, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; 2005-08 Chair, Associate Professor, Department of Global Gender Studies, University at Buffalo; 2004-05 Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, Cornell University; 1997-03 Visiting Professor and Senior Researcher, Departments of Human Development & Development Sociology, Cornell University; 1996-98 Director of Eastern European Academic Program-EEAP, International Studies, Cornell University; 1994-96 Visiting Associate Professor, European Studies & Department of Sociology, Cornell University; 1988-94 Assistant to Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Georgia Southern University; 1987-88 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Florida

Education: 1987 Ph.D. A. Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, Sociology; 1982 Doctoral Studies, University of Leiden, Netherland; 1982 M.A. With Distinction, A. Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Sociology; 1980 B.A. Cum Laude, A. Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Sociology