- Phone:
- (812) 855-0401
- Email:
- jworonko@iu.edu
- Research areas:
- Cultural Policy and Arts Administration
- Methods Econometrics and Data Management
- Nonprofit Management and Philanthropy
- Policy Analysis
- Areas of Interest:
- Cultural economics
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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
- Financial Management for Nonprofit Organizations
Biography
Joanna Woronkowicz is a cultural economist who conducts research on labor, capital, and technological investments in arts and culture. She joined O’Neill in 2013 and prior to that was the senior research officer for the National Endowment for the Arts. Woronkowicz is co-founder and faculty director of the Center for Cultural Affairs and co-director of the Arts, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab. Her first book, Building Better Arts Facilities: Lessons from a U.S. National Study, was published by Routledge in 2015. Her book, Artists at Work: Rethinking Policy for Artistic Careers, is forthcoming in the fall of 2025 with Stanford University Press.
Highlights
- Co-founder and faculty director, Center for Cultural Affairs
- Association for Cultural Economics International Executive Board
- Advisory Board Member, Zurich Centre for Creative Economies
- IU Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (2019)
- Fulbright Specialist Program, Zurich, Switzerland (2019)
- Co-director, Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Lab; Center for Cultural Affairs
- Trustee's Teaching Award (2016)
- Senior Research Officer, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
In the News
- "The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures struggles to keep its ego in check — like the ill-fated Newseum before it" - Washington Post, January 27, 2022
Selected Works
- “The Value of an Arts Degree: Career Success and Inequality,”American Behavioral Scientist, (2023)
- “Reluctantly Independent – Motivations for Self-Employed Artistic Work in the US,” (with T. Feder) Journal of Cultural Economics, (2022)
- "Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation,"Journal of Cultural Economics, (45) 519–526, (2021)
- "Build It and will They Come?: The Effect of Investing in Cultural Consumption Amenities in Higher Education on Student-Level Outcomes," (with S. Mughan, J. Sherrod Hale), Research in Higher Education, (2021)
- "More than STEM: spillovers from higher education institution infrastructure investments in the arts," (with D.S. Noonan, J.S. Hale), The Journal of Technology Transfer, (September 26, 2020)
- “Entrepreneurship among Nonprofit Arts Organizations: Substituting between Wage and Flexible Labor,” (with D. Noonan and K. LeRoux) Public Administration Review (2019)
- “How Have Recent Health Insurance Expansions Affected Artist Occupations?” (with A. Soni, S. Freedman and K. Simon) Journal of Cultural Economics (2019)
- "Who Goes Freelance? The Determinants of Self-Employment for Artists,” (with D. Noonan) Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 43(4): 651-672 (2017)
- "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)