Anna Cieslik is an Assistant Professor at New Jersey City University, Geography Department, and a Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. She is an urban geographer with an interest in gender, immigration and diversity in urban context. She received her PhD from Clark University (2011) where she worked on Polish migration to London and migrants’ perceptions of urban environments.  She has published in National Identities, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and in an edited volume ‘The International Handbook on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism: Global and Development Perspectives’.