Maria Dziembowska
C.Phil. Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles. 2008
M.A. Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles. 2005.
B.A. Political Science. B.A German Literature, Haverford College, Haverford, PA. 1998.
Office: Haines 234
Fax: 310-206-9838
E-mail:
mdziembo@ucla.edu
Subfield
Class, Politics and Society; Economic Sociology
Research Interests
Research Associate (funded through the UCLA Academic Senate Grant), UCLA Department of Sociology. Professor Ruth Milkman. Present.
Independent Researcher, Summer 2004. Conducted interviews with workers and representatives of the three major trade union organizations in Poland. The objective of this research was to analyze what role Polish trade unions play in industrial relations and how workers perceive the ability of unions to express and defend their economic and social interests at the firm, national and European level.
Independent Researcher, Summer 2003. Conducted interviews and collected archival materials available in Poland to study the social consequences of different methods of privatization used during Poland’s transition from command to market economy.
Research Assistant, UCLA Department of Sociology. Professor Michael Mann. Winter 2003. Research for book: “The Incoherent Empire” Verso 2003.
Research Assistant, UCLA Department of Sociology. Professor Peter Kollock. Winter 2003. Conducted review of theoretical literature and empirical research on "social capital".
Research Assistant, Haverford College Department of Sociology. Professor Suava Zbierski-Salameh. 2002. Reviewed sociological literature on agrarian collectivity structures in post-socialist Poland, Hungary, Romania and East Germany for a book on the social effects of new economic and political policies on property relations in transitioning economies.
Notes
WORK IN PROGRESS
• There-based political development and here-based activism (dissertation research on Polish immigrant workers in Chicago)
• "Day Labor Organizing in Los Angeles" (historical analysis of day labor immigrant organizing campaigns in LA)
• “Labor weakness in Poland” (a socio-historical analysis of organized labor in Poland, changing structure of the working class and the ability of existing models of labor representation to strengthen the political and economic position of labor in the context of international trade and globalization)
• “Social determinants of party choice after the fall of Communism.” (analysis of the relationship between political choice and social class in late post-socialist Poland)
• “The social cost of Solidarity” (a historical analysis of workers’ struggles for democracy during and after state socialism)
• “Reflections on Poland’s Developmental Experience” (a socio-historical analysis of the effect of political institutions on economic outcomes in the post-socialist Poland)
Grants and Awards
• UCLA Summer Graduate Research Mentorship, 2005.
• UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies FLAS Title IV Fellowship (German), 2004-2005.
• UC Berkley Institute for European Studies Pre-dissertation Fellowship, Summer 2004.
• UCLA Department of Sociology Funding Grant, 2003-2004.
• UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies Summer Fellowship, Summer 2003.
• Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Political Studies Summer Internship, 2003/2004.
Advisors
Professor Ruth Milkman
Professor William G. Roy
Professor Sanford Jacoby
Professor Michael Mann
Professor Ruben Hernandez-Leon
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