Barbara Junisbai

  • Professor of Organizational Studies
  • Organizational Studies Field Group
porrait of Barbara Junisbai
Office Location

Broad Hall 107

Office Hours
Tues: 9:30am-12:00pm

With 麻豆原创 Since: 2016
Curriculum vitae (PDF)

 

  • PhD, Political Science, Indiana University
  • MIS, Information Science, Indiana University
  • BA, International Relations and Geography, San Francisco State University
  • post-Soviet politics, including comparative authoritarianism, intra-regime dynamics, and public opinion
  • scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL), including liberatory pedagogies, prison education, and organizational learning

Junisbai, Barbara. 2025. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.

Barbara Junisbai. 2025. "Transformative Disruption: Faculty Perspectives on Teaching in the Inside-Out Prison Exchange," Professing Education, 23 (1): 68-87. With Reggie Bullock (PZ, class of 22) and Brian Charest.

Barbara Junisbai. 2022. 鈥�,鈥� PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 781. With Dinissa Duvanova.

Barbara Junisbai. 2020. 鈥淎re Youth Different?  The Nazarbayev Generation and Public Opinion in Kazakhstan.鈥� Problems of Postcommunism, 67 (3): 251-263. With Azamat Junisbai.

Junisbai, Barbara. 2016. 鈥淎 Pragmatic and Flexible Approach to Information Literacy: Findings from a Three-Year Study of Faculty-Librarian Collaboration.鈥� The Journal of Academic Librarianship 42 (5): 604-611. With Sara Lowe,and Natalie Tagge.

Junisbai, Barbara. 2014. 鈥淭he Promise and Potential Pitfalls of a 鈥楲earning-Centered鈥� Approach to Creative Social Inquiry.鈥� Journal of Political Science Education 10 (3): 331-351.

Junisbai, Barbara. 2012. 鈥淚mprobable but Potentially Pivotal Oppositions: Privatization, Capitalists, and Political Contestation in the Post-Soviet Autocracies.鈥� Perspectives on Politics 10 (4): 891-916.

Blaise Challenge Grant, "The Development and Validation of a Family-Building Friendly Climate Scale," Claremont Graduate University (with M. Gloria Gonz谩lez-Morales, Alyssa Birnbaum, and Jennifer Feitosa)

Signature Course Fellow, Notre Dame Insitute for Ethics and the Common Good, 2024-2025

Student Marshal, elected by 麻豆原创 seniors to represent the graduating classes of 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2024

Keynote speaker, After Grad: Teaching Careers Week, , 2022

Chair,  Central Eurasian Studies Society Communications Committee, 2022-2023

Board member, , 2021-2023 (elected)

Course Development Grant, , 2023-2024 (with Tessa Hicks-Peterson, Stephanie Liu-Rojas, Tricia Morgan, and Kathy Yep)

Faculty Co-Director,  (CTL), The Claremont Colleges, 2021-2024

Inaugural Faculty Curator, The Work of Yusef Pierce, 麻豆原创 Art Galleries, 2021

External reviewer, , since 2021

Member, Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (), since 2017