Irina Tomescu-Dubrow is a professor of sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). She conducts survey-based research on social stratification and social change, and relatedly, on survey data harmonization. Irina is the PI of the project “Structures and Futures: The Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN 1988-2023” (2022-2025, polpan.org/en/) funded by Poland’s National Science Centre, and was co-PI of the NSF-funded SDR project on ex-post harmonization of cross-national survey data (asc.ohio-state.edu/dataharmonization). Since 2021, Irina is the director of the Graduate School for Social Research (gssr.edu.pl) of the PAN Institutes of Philosophy and Sociology, Psychology, and Political Studies, while also co-directing the Cross-national Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training (CONSIRT, consirt.osu.edu) program of The Ohio State University and PAN.
Research interests: Methodology of the Social Sciences, Survey Data Harmonization, Social Transformations, Social Stratification, Political Sociology, Social Psychology
Contact: [email protected], [email protected]
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7941-522X
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Irina-Tomescu-Dubrow
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/irina-tomescu-dubrow-666217188
Selected publications:
Tomescu‐Dubrow, Irina, Wolf, Christof., Slomczynski, Kazimierz M., Jenkins, J. Craig, Editors. 2024. Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences. Wiley. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119712206
Tomescu‐Dubrow, I., Slomczynski, K. M., Wysmulek, I., Powałko, P., Li, O., Tu, Y., … & Lavryk, D. 2024. Harmonization for Cross‐National Secondary Analysis: Survey Data Recycling. Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences, 145-167. (Tomescu-Dubrow I., Wolf Ch., Slomczynski K.M., Jenkins J. C., eds) Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119712206.ch9
Slomczynski, Kazimierz M., Michał Kotnarowski, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, and Joshua K. Dubrow. Editors. 2023. Poland: Thirty Years of Radical Social Change. Brill.
Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Zbigniew Sawinski, Anna Kiersztyn, Krystyna Janicka, Danuta Życzyńska-Ciołek, Ilona Wysmulek, Michal Kotnarowski. 2021. “The Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN” European Sociological Review doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcab017
Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow and Ilona Wysmulek. 2021. “Survey Data Quality in Analyzing Harmonized Indicators of Protest Behavior: A Survey Data Recycling Approach” American Behavioral Scientist doi.org/10.1177/00027642211021623
Kwak, Joonghyun, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Joshua K. Dubrow. 2020. “Youth, Institutional Trust, and Democratic Backsliding” American Behavioral Scientist 64(9), 1366-1390. doi 10.1177/0002764220941222
Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina, Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow, Anna Kiersztyn, Katarzyna Andrejuk, Marta Kołczyńska, and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski. 2019. The Subjective Experience of Joblessness in Poland. Springer.
Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina, Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Henryk Domański, Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow, Zbigniew Sawiński, Dariusz Przybysz. 2018. Dynamics of Class and Stratification in Poland. Budapest: CEU Press.
Dubrow, Joshua K. and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow. 2016. “The Rise of Cross-National Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences: Emergence of an Interdisciplinary Methodological Field.” Quality and Quantity 50(4): 1449-1467. DOI 10.1007/s11135-015-0215-z (online first, 2015)
Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Joshua K. Dubrow and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski. 2013. “Ecological Determinants of Local Government Opposition to Federal Policy” Journal of Urban Affairs 36(3): 401-419. DOI: 10.1111/juaf.12049
Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina. 2011. “Effects of Future Orientations on Income Attainment and Social Class: An Analysis of Polish Panel Data.” Polish Sociological Review 4: 515-532.