Anna Gwiazda is Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. Before joining King’s in 2010, she worked at Trinity College Dublin. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at the European University Institute in Florence and the Australian National University. She obtained her PhD degree from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, an M.A. in Political Science from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and a BA in Economics from the University of Radom, Poland.

Research

Anna’s research broadly engages with questions of democracy and gender, with a particular focus on women’s political representation and participation, gender and political parties and feminist movements.

Currently, Anna is working on several projects. She is a co-investigator on the ERC (UKRI) Synergy Project QUALREP: The Quality of Women’s Political Representation. She is also researching gendered democratic backsliding and democratic resilience as well as political responses to violence against women.

She has edited two special issues: Politics and Gender in Eastern Europe in Politics & Gender and Women’s Political Representation in Central and Eastern Europe in East European Politics.

Anna's book Democracy in Poland (Routledge, 2016) examined the quality of Polish democracy since 1989. The book has been reviewed in several academic journals, including West European Politics, East European Politics, Slavic Review and Democratization.

Teaching

• Gender Politics and Public Policy (postgraduate module)
• Women & Politics (third-year undergraduate module)