Joanna Woronkowicz

Assistant Professor

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Phone:: (812) 855-0401
Email:: jworonko@indiana.edu
Room Number:: SPEA 341

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2011
M.A., American University, 2007
B.F.A., University of Windsor, 2004

Courses

Cultural Planning and Urban Development
Statistical Analysis for Effective Decision-Making

Biography

Dr. Joanna Woronkowicz conducts research in nonprofit management and cultural policy. She joined SPEA in 2013, and prior to that served as the senior research officer at the National Endowment for the Arts.

Within the field of nonprofit management, Woronkowicz studies the processes and consequences of investing in capital for major facilities projects. She also conducts research on artist employment and broad issues related to cultural policy.

Woronkowicz has published in journals, including International Journal of Cultural Policy, Nonprofit Management & Leadership, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Cultural Trends, and more. Her 2014 co-authored book, Building Better Arts Facilities: Lessons from a U.S. National Study (Routledge), documents the processes several nonprofit cultural organizations went through building new or renovating existing facilities.

In 2017, she was co-recipient of one of the National Endowment for the Arts' (NEA) largest grants ever given for research to support a study of higher education investments in physical and programmatic arts infrastructure in the U.S. In 2013, she received an NEA grant to study the employment behavior of artists around the Great Recession.

Highlights

Faculty Fellow, Indiana University Public Policy Institute (2017)
Trustee's Teaching Award (2016)
Senior Research Officer, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Research Analyst, NORC at the University of Chicago
Research Associate, Cultural Policy Center, University of Chicago
Research Assistant, Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.

In the News

"London is a world leader in historic preservation" - CCTV America, May 18, 2016
"IU SPEA professor of cultural policy found her platform for research after years on the stage" - Inside IU Bloomington, April 20, 2016
"Why Every Art Museum Should Launch a Pop-Up Satellite" - The Atlantic, CityLab, July 21, 2015
"Heavily in debt, Newseum considered risky strategy to improve finances" - Washington Post, July 1, 2015
"Indiana University researchers awarded grant to study employment behavior of artists" - IU Newsroom, May 11, 2015
"Musical Instrument Museum" - Arizona Republic, April 21, 2015
"Vancouver Art Gallery faces near-impossible task of raising money for a new facility" - The Vancouver Sun, April 17, 2015

Selected Works

“Who Goes Freelance? The Determinants of Self-Employment for Artists,” (with D. Noonan), Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (Sept. 29, 2017)
“Community Engagement and Cultural Building Projects,” Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society (21 September 2017)
“The Effects of Capital Campaigns on other Nonprofits’ Fundraising,” (with J. Nicholson-Crotty), Nonprofit Management & Leadership (2017)
“Performance Measurement as Policy Rhetoric: The Case of Federal Arts Councils,” (with T. M. Rabovsky and M. Rushton) International Journal of Cultural Policy, DOI: 10.1080/10286632.2017.1290611 (2017)
“Is Bigger Better? The Effect of Nonprofit Facilities Projects on Financial Vulnerability,” Nonprofit Management and Leadership 27 (1), 79-94 (2016)
"Building New Performing Arts Centers” in Performing Arts Center Management," (Eds. Patricia Dewey Lambert and Robyn Williams). New York/London: Routledge (2017)
Building Better Arts Facilities: Lessons from a U.S. National Study (with N. Bradburn and D. C. Joynes). New York: Routledge (2014)
“Art-making or Place-making? The Relationship between Open-air Performance Venues and Neighborhood Change,” Journal of Planning Education and Research, 36 (1) 49-59 (2015)
“Artists, Employment, and the Great Recession: A Cross-Sectional Analysis Using U.S. Current Population Survey Data,” Cultural Trends 24 (2): 154-64. (2015)
“The determinants of cultural building: Identifying the demographic and economic factors associated with cultural facility investment in U.S. metropolitan statistical areas between 1994 and 2008,”Cultural Trends 22 (3/4): 192-202 (2013)