About

Associate Professor of Political Science at the Complutense University of Madrid. Her lines of research are equality policies, especially adoption and implementation, in the European Union and Spain, and feminism and democracy. She directs the Gender and Politics research group (GEYPO ref. 970799) with María Bustelo, is PI of a WP and the UCM team in the Horizon Europe CCINDLE project on democracy and feminism (Ref: 101061256, 2022-2026) and researcher in the DEMOC project on gender and political representation (Ref. EXI077/21/000001). Her latest monographs are Gender and Political Analysis (with Johanna Kantola, Palgrave, 2017) and The Symbolic Representation of Gender (with Petra Meier, Ashgate, 2014). Recent articles have been published in Policy & Politics, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Common Market Studies, Social Politics, International Political Science Review, and Policy and Society. She has edited the special issues ‘De-democratization and opposition to gender equality politics in Europe’ (Social Politics 2021, with Johanna Kantola and Ruth Rubio), ‘Populism and Feminist Politics’ (International Political Science Review 2020, with Johanna Kantola), ‘Care policies in practice’ (Policy and Society 28, 4, 2019, with Rossella Ciccia) and ‘Policymaking from a Gender + Equality Perspective’ (Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, 38, 1, 2017, with Petra Meier and Mieke Verloo). She has directed and participated in different national and international research projects and carried out research visits at Florence Scuola Normale Superiore (IT), and the universities of Radboud (NL), Antwerp (B), and Aalborg (DK). She has been recognised three research ‘sexenies’ and an ‘outstanding research trayectory’ according to ANEP I3 Program. She has been a coordinator for the evaluation of gender research projects in the social sciences panel of Spain’s National Research Agency (2018-2021) and an elected member of the Board of Directors for the Spanish Political Science Association AECPA (2013-2017 and 2017-2022).

Publications

Alonso, Alba, Rossella Ciccia & Emanuela Lombardo (2023) A Southern European model? Gender regime change in Italy and Spain, Women’s Studies International Forum 98 open access https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2023.102737

Caravantes, Paloma & Emanuela Lombardo (2022) The symbolic representation of the ‘People’ and the ‘Homeland’ in Spanish left populism: an opportunity for feminist politics?, Journal of Contemporary European Studies DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2022.2090322

Lombardo, Emanuela & Petra Meier (2022) Challenging boundaries to expand frontiers in gender and policy studies, Policy & Politics, 50(1): 99-115(17), DOI: 10.1332/030557321X16309516650101

Tildesley, Rebecca, Emanuela Lombardo & Tània, Verge (2022) Power Struggles in the Implementation of Gender Equality Policies: The Politics of Resistance and Counter-resistance in Universities. Politics & Gender 18(4): 879-910. Open access doi:10.1017/S1743923X21000167

Kantola, Johanna & Emanuela Lombardo (2021) Challenges to democratic practices and discourses in the European Parliament: Feminist perspectives on the politics of political groups. Social Politics 28(3): 579-602, Special issue: De-democratization and opposition to gender equality politics in Europe. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxab022

Lombardo, Emanuela, Johanna Kantola, & Ruth Rubio (eds) (2021) De-democratization and opposition to gender equality politics in Europe, Introduction of the special issue, Social Politics 28(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxab030

Lombardo, Emanuela & María Bustelo (2021) Sexual and sexist harassment in Spanish universities: policy implementation and resistances against gender equality measures. Journal of Gender Studies 31(1): 8-22 Open access, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2021.1924643

Kantola, Johanna & Emanuela Lombardo (2020). Strategies of right populists in opposing gender equality in a polarized European Parliament. International Political Science Review, Populism and Feminist Politics Monograph. Open access, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512120963953.

Kantola, Johanna & Emanuela Lombardo (2020) Introduction to the Special Issue: Populism and Feminist Politics, International Political Science Review. Open access, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512120972609

Lombardo, Emanuela & Alba Alonso (2020). Gender regime change in decentralized states: The case of Spain. Special issue: Theorizing changes in gender regimes and gendered institutions, Sylvia Walby & Karen Shire (eds.). Social Politics, 27(3), 449–466. Open access, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxaa016

Kantola, Johanna & Emanuela Lombardo (2019) Populism and Feminist Politics: the Cases of Finland and Spain. European Journal of Political Research, 58(4), 1108-1128. Open access, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512120972609

La Barbera, MariaCaterina & Emanuela Lombardo (2019) Towards equal sharing of care? Judicial implementation of EU equal employment and work–life balance policies in Spain. Policy & Society, 38(4), 626-642. Open access, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2019.1661560

La Barbera, MariaCaterina y Emanuela Lombardo (2019) The Long and Winding Road: A Comparative Policy Analysis of Multilevel Judicial Implementation of Work‒Life Balance in Spain. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 21(1), 9-24. Open access, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2017.1363949

Lombardo, Emanuela & Johanna Kantola (2019) European Integration and Disintegration: Feminist Perspectives on Inequalities and Social Justice. Journal of Common Market Studies, 57, 62-76. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12949

Ciccia, Rossella & Lombardo, Emanuela (2019) Care policies in practice: how discourse matters for policy implementation. Policy & Society, 38(4), 537-553. Open access, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2019.1702278

Email: elombardo@cps.usm.es