Liliana Kowalski

Writing

Notes & Essays

Thinking out loud on policy, research, and the gap between the two.

May 2026

Research Notes

Policy Diffusion After Dobbs

What the spread of abortion legislation tells us about how policy actually moves through American government.

March 2026

Essay

The Credential and The Contract

Higher education in the United States functions as a racial project––reproducing inequality while invoking the myth of the great equalizer to justify the result.