Jessica M. Zychowicz Ph.D.

Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. is the author of many books, articles and chapters. She holds a Doctorate from the University of Michigan and a BA from the University of California Berkeley. She is currently Senior Director of Global Initiatives and Deputy to the Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Initiatives at University of California San Diego, where she co-leads international relations, exchanges, global research partnerships and strategy.

 

Previously she served as Director of Institute of International Education (IIE) International Office Kyiv/Europe, one of seven offices on the globe, and Executive Director of the Fulbright Program U.S.-Ukraine. She is an Associate Advisor to the Human Rights Graduate Program at the University of Arizona involving teaching and research.
 

She is an award-winning author of a monograph that has also been translated and published into Polish, acclaimed by Vogue Polska and MSN, as well as into Ukrainian. She has held key research fellowships and taught at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs; the University of Alberta in Canada; and Uppsala University in Sweden. She has been a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Kyiv Mohyla National Academy of Ukraine. She serves on international professional boards in academia and the arts and has also curated exhibitions of contemporary art, most recently as an author and consultant on the “100 Years of Self-Determination” exhibition at Irish Museum of Modern Art. She has given many invited public keynote lectures at universities and museums in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.