Karolina Kulicka, PhD '20
As a former civil servant (the Ministry of Finance; the Ministry of the Environment in Poland; the National Center of Research and Development) and a representative of Poland to the European Union and the United Nations, Karolina Kulicka is interested in gender equality in public administrations.
Karolina's dissertation examined gender inequality in the Polish civil service system. Her research focuses on gendered organizations, institutional mechanisms of sustaining inequality as well as public service institutions. With experience in both academia and non-academic professions, she links academic theory with practice and strives to come with strategies to shatter the status quo of class, race and gender inequality.
Karolina received the International Peace Scholarship and support from the Goethe Institute and the government of Singapore. She is a Public Administration Theory Network Fellow.
Since earning her PhD in spring 2020, Karolina has returned to Poland.
Email: kkulicka@buffalo.edu
Karolina Kulicka chairing a United Nations working group meeting in Chisinau, Moldova, 2011
The feminist theory will best prove its usefulness if it is used as a toolbox to shatter the status quo of inequality. – Karolina Kulicka
Awards and Honors
- UB Humanities Institute PhD Fellowship
- P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship (IPS), The International Peace Scholarship Fund
- Public Administration Theory Network Fellowship
- Mark Diamond Research Fund
- The Isabel S. Marcus International Research Fellowship, UB Gender Institute
- Goethe Institute Fellowship, Goethe Institute Europanetzwerk Deutsch Programme, Germany's Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institute
Recent Publications
- "Doing Administration, Doing Gender: Repairing Political Neutrality with a Feminist Toolbox" - Administrative Theory & Praxis, 0: 1-17, 2019 Online
- "Not Refugees but Rapists and Colonizers: The “European Migration Crisis” through Object-Relation Theory" – philoSOPHIA, 2017, Volume 7, Issue 2