Elzbieta Matynia


Elzbieta Matynia is director of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies headquartered at The New School for Social Research. The center’s year-round activities include summer institutes in Poland and South Africa and mesh with her own research in political and cultural sociology focusing on democratic transitions in Eastern Europe and beyond, and more recently on the concept of borderlands in the emerging “shared Europe”. Her main areas of interest are political sociology, the history of social thought, sociology of culture and art, democratic theory and practice, women and democracy, and public memory in the context of globalization.