About
Biography
Christina Ewig is Professor of Public Affairs and Faculty Director of the Center on Women, Gender and Public Policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. She is currently working on a book that measures whether electing more women and indigenous peoples to political office in Latin America changes policy agendas to be more inclusive. The book compares Peru, Colombia and Ecuador. She has also published widely on gender, race and Latin American social policy including the historical formation of Latin American social policy; the politics and effects of market-oriented social policy reforms following economic adjustment in the 1990s and 2000s; and the more recent shift toward more generous and equitable social policies. Her book, Second-Wave Neoliberalism: Gender, Race and Health Sector Reform in Peru (Penn State University Press, 2010) won the Flora Tristán Award for the best book on Peru, 2010-12, from the Peru Section of the Latin American Studies Association. Her research on health reforms in Chile, Colombia, and Brazil has been published in journals such as Comparative Political Studies and World Development, among others. Professor Ewig's research has been supported by a number of sources, including a Fulbright New Century Scholars award, a Rockefeller residential fellowship, and a Woodrow Wilson Center International Center for Scholars residential fellowship. As Faculty Director of the Center on Women, Gender and Public Policy, Professor Ewig works to stimulate research, teaching and public engagement on gender and its intersections with other forms of inequality. She leads the Humphrey School’s academic programming on gender and public policy, including teaching graduate courses on gender, intersectionality, and public policy. She also leads the Center’s research portfolio, which is centered on finding evidence-based policy solutions to gender-based disparities, with specific expertise on Minnesota.
Education
PhD in Political Science (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001)
Recent Publications
Ewig, C. & Friedman, E. J. (2023). Women’s Movements in Latin America: From Elite Organizing to Intersectional Mass Mobilization. In F. M. Rossi (Ed.), Oxford Handbook on Latin American Social Movements. Oxford University Press: Oxford
Ewig, C., Bombyk, M. & Dorman, A. (2020). COVID-19's Unequal Impacts on Minnesota Workers: A Race and Gender Lens. Center on Women, Gender and Public Policy: Minneapolis, MN USA
Ewig, C. (2020). Ethnic Parties and Indigenous Substantive Representation in Ecuador, Representation,
Ewig, C., Bombyk, M., Graham, L. & Ritter, J. (2020). 2020 Status on Women and Girls in Minnesota. Women's Foundation of Minnesota: Minneapolis, MN USA
Ewig, C. (2018). Forging Intersectional Interests: Women's Substantive Representation in Bolivia, Politics & Gender, 14(3), 433-459
Blofield, M. & Ewig, C. (2017). The Left Turn and Abortion Politics in Latin America, Social Politics, 24(4), 481-510
Rousseau, S. & Ewig, C. (2017). Latin America's Left-Turn and the Political Empowerment of Indigenous Women, Social Politics, 24(4), 425-451
Blofield, M., Ewig, C. & Piscopo, J. M. (2017). The Reactive Left: Gender Equality and the Latin American Pink Tide, Social Politics, 24(4), 345-369
Courses
News and Media
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Pandemic Sharpens Gender and Racial Inequalities Among Minnesota Workers
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Research Updates
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In the Media
UMN Humphrey School Report: COVID Sharpens Inequalities Among Minnesota Workers
Asian American Press, 12-12-2020
Women of Color at Higher Risk for Layoffs, COVID Exposure at Work, Report Says
Minnesota Reformer, 12-10-2020
COVID-19 'Sharpens' Inequalities Among MN Workers, U Research Finds
WCCO TV, 12-09-2020
Women of Color in MN Face Higher Risks, Layoffs, During Pandemic, UMN Study Finds
Star Tribune, 12-09-2020
Glass Ceiling Podcast: The Future of Female Leadership
Women's Business Development Center, 10-26-2020
Is Bolivia's Vote a Comeback for Latin America's Left?
Christian Science Monitor, 10-23-2020
How Kamala Harris Might Lead an Economic Recovery
The 19th, 08-17-2020
100 Years Later, Today’s Activists Can Learn from the Suffrage Movement
Star Tribune, 08-09-2020