Biography
Anja Matwijkiw is a Professor of Ethics & Human Rights at the Indiana University Graduate School and the Philosophy Program at Indiana University Northwest. Professor Matwijkiw is also Affiliated Faculty, Institute for European Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, IU-Bloomington.
Professor Matwijkiw earned a 6-year research degree (Magister) from Copenhagen University, Denmark (1989) and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, England (1997). During her time in England, Professor Anja Matwijkiw also served as a Carlsberg Research Fellow and Carlsberg Researcher at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, England (1990-1995). She did her PostDoc at the University of Chicago where she also was an Instructor for the Graham School of General Studies, a Visiting Lecturer at the Human Rights Program, and a Faculty Advisor for M.A. students at the Center for International Studies (1998-2003).
She is on the Editorial Boards for Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence (Oxford University Press), International Criminal Law Review (Brill), Studies in International Criminal Law Series (Brill), Journal of International Criminal Law, and International Studies Journal (ISJ), where she replaced (in 2017) M. Cherif Bassiouni, the "'father' of modern international criminal law." After this, she joined the Scientific Committee for EUWEB Legal Essays. Global & International Perspectives.
Professor Matwijkiw was the 2019-2020 Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Public International Law at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law & the Law Faculty, Lund University, Sweden. While affiliated with the Law Faculty, Professor Matwijkiw also designed and taught the course Human Rights, Values and Legal Trends: The Role of Ethics [in Public International Law]. Prior to this prestigious appointment, she was a Visiting Researcher at Copenhagen Law School and recipient of the New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities, IU Bloomington (2016-2017). From 2019 to 2022, she was among the "national and international legal experts" who was invited to contribute to the Jean Monnet Module EU-Western Balkans Cooperation on Justice and Home Affairs at the University of Salerno, Italy. From 2020 to 2023, she served as Co-Investigator and Chair of the U.S. Working Group (for research programme 70593 in Colombia) on Corruption Associated with Transnational Crime (TOC). Furthermore, in 2021, she secured an affiliation as a Visiting Researcher at the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.
Her current and international research collaborations include a 2023 invitation to GLOBACT, a Jean Monnet Module based at the University of Salerno, Italy. Again in 2023, she went on to submit research for the International progress Organization (I.P.O.), a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations and associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information.
Professor Anja Matwijkiw has authored or co-authored over eighty pieces of work, often of an interdisciplinary character that creates synergies between ethics, human rights, post-conflict justice, and law at the national and international level. Together with Dr. Bronik Matwijkiw, Professor Anja Matwijkiw pioneered the position called Stakeholder Jurisprudence. In 2010, Professor Matwijkiw also authored ethics recommendations for the United Nations as a participant in the first global post-WWII study on transitional justice entitled Fighting Impunity and Promoting International Justice which was directed by M. Cherif Bassiouni and co-sponsored by the EuropeAid Office of the European Commission under the auspices of the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences, Italy, 2008-2010).
Professor Matwijkiw's interdisciplinary research forms part of a broader endeavor to promote internalization in scholarship, teaching, and service. In 2022, her activities also resulted in an invitation to become a Center & Program Faculty Affiliate at the Illinois Global Institute, U.S. See https://igi.illinois.edu/directory/profile/anjam. Again in 2022, Professor Anja Matwijkiw was invited to join the Scientific Board for the Legal Multidisciplinary Observatory /Osservatorio Giuridico Multidisciplinare (IECLO) at the University of Salerno, Italy. For a recent interview with her, see https://www.ieclo.org/ieclo-scientific-coordinator-prof-anja-matwijkiw-is-serving-as-u-s-working-group-on-corruption-linked-to-transnational-organized-crime/
Professor Anja Matwijkiw is a former Vice-President and Ethics Advisor of the Shared Ethics Advisory Commission (SEAC) for Northwest Indiana. From 2004 to 2010, she worked in a variety of capacities and roles to promote accountability, transparency and fairness in local government. In addition, she supervised, designed and conducted ethics training for public officials, just as she was one of the drafters of Lake County Ethics Pledge for Public Officials (2004), The Lake County Ethics Pledge for Employees of Governmental Entities (2004), and The Municipal Code of Ethics and Values (2005).
