Her own research in political and cultural sociology focuses 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. She is the author of Performative Democracy (Yale Cultural Sociology Series, Paradigm, 2009).
Elżbieta Matynia
Sept. 12, 2011, 1:41 p.m.
Elzbieta Matynia is Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York and director of NSSR’s Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, whose year-round activities include summer institutes in Poland and South Africa.