- Phone:
- (812) 855-0401
- Email:
- jworonko@indiana.edu
- Research areas:
- Cultural Policy and Arts Administration
- Methods Econometrics and Data Management
- Nonprofit Management and Philanthropy
- Policy Analysis
- Areas of Interest:
- Cultural economics
SPEA 341
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
Dr. Joanna Woronkowicz is a cultural economist who conducts research on artist labor markets and cultural facilities investments. She joined O’Neill in 2013, and prior to that served as the senior research officer at 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 was published by Routledge in 2015. She is currently working on a book manuscript on Being an Artist in America.
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
- "What the Fall of the Newseum Says About News, and Museums" - Citylab, March 7, 2019
- "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
- “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)
