Dr Eva Polonska-Kimunguyi - Researcher Profile

Biography

Eva Polonska obtained her PhD from the University of Melbourne where she studied media and audiovisual policy of the European Union. Her thesis was titled “Culture, Identity and Trade in the European Union: Regulation of Television Content in the Global Era.” She received a Master of Arts in Political Science and Journalism from the University of Warsaw, Poland. Dr Polonska also worked as a journalist for Polish national television. She has lectured in media and contemporary European politics, democracy and global politics and is now a lecturer of European studies at Monash University. Her interests include media, cultural policies and the relationship between media and politics. She has recently published a book on Culture, Identity and Trade: Regulation of Television Content in the Enlarged European Union and has another forthcoming titled Transitions Revisited: Central and Eastern Europe Twenty Years after the Soviet Union.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSPHY

Institution: The University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 2009

MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS

Institution: The University of Melbourne, Australia

Year awarded: 2009

JOURNALISAM AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Institution: The University of warsaw, Poland

Year awarded: 1996

Publications

Books

Polonska-Kimunguyi, E., Kimunguyi, P. (eds), 2012, Transitions Revisited: Central and Eastern Europe twenty years after the Soviet Union, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warsaw, Poland.

Polonska-Kimunguyi, E., 2011, Culture Identity and Trade: Regulating Television Content in the Enlarged European Union, Lambert Academic Publishing, Saabrucken Germany.

Book Chapters

Polonska-Kimunguyi, E.D., 2012, Glasnost 20 years after: Media and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe revisited, in Transitions Revisited: Central and Eastern Europe Twenty Years After the Soviet Union, eds Eva Polonska-Kimunguyi and Patrick Kimunguyi, Scholar Publishing House, Warsaw Poland, pp. 64-82.

Polonska-Kimunguyi, E.D., 2012, Viewers into Europeans? Polish media laws and the construction of pan-European identity, in Transitions Revisited: Central and Eastern Europe Twenty Years After the Soviet Union, eds Eva Polonska-Kimunguyi and Patrick Kimunguyi, Scholar Publishing House, Warsaw Poland, pp. 245-272.

Polonska-Kimunguyi, E., 2010, The WTO and cultural industries. Is free trade good for Europe?, in New Europe, new world?: The European Union, Europe, and the challenges of the 21st century, eds Pascaline Winand, Alfonso Martinezz Arranz, Natalie Doyle, Peter Lang, Brussells, Belgium, pp. 127-145.

Journal Articles

Polonska-Kimunguyi, E., Kimunguyi, P., 2011, The making of the Europeans: media in the construction of pan-national identity, International Communication Gazette [E], vol 73, issue 6, Sage Publications Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 507-523.

Polonska-Kimunguyi, E., 2010, In defence of content quotas: free speech and the regulation of television in the European Union, Media and Arts Law Review [P], vol 15, issue 3, August 2010, LexisNexis Butterworths, Australia, pp. 340-360.

Polonska-Kimunguyi, E., 2010, Polish media laws and the European Union, Proceedings of the Institute for European Studies, Journal of Tallinn University of Technology [P], vol 8, issue December 2010, Department of International Relations, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia, pp. 116-143.

Conference Proceedings

Polonska-Kimunguyi, E., 2010, Media and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: the promise of 1987 revisited, Media, Democracy and Change: Refereed proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference 2010, 7 July 2010 to 9 July 2010, Australian and New Zealand Communication Association, Canberra, Australia, pp. 1-14.