Dr. Jill M. Bystydzienski is a retired university professor who taught sociology and women’s and gender studies courses, conducted research and published articles and books in three different academic institutions for about 40 years. She chaired academic departments and directed multiple programs. Her most recent research examined the barriers and opportunities for women and people of color in STEM fields. She has been a co-principal investigator and researcher on two National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE Institutional Transformation awards (one at Iowa State and another at Ohio State) and a PI on two NSF Research on Gender in Science and Engineering collaborative grants that supported a seven-year study of a cohort of diverse young women who explored pathways to engineering. In autumn 2015 she had a Fulbright Research Fellowship to study women’s organizations that work to improve the status of women in STEM in Poland.
She also has done research and taught courses on women, gender and politics in international and global perspective, with politics broadly defined to encompass established political institutions and women's movements, organizations, and actions. Some of her research in this area focused on women’s organizations, movements and feminisms in post-Soviet countries.
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