Dr Renata Hryciuk

In my research I focus mainly on gender, politics, food and eating, and popular culture. I conducted my fieldwork in Poland, Lithuania and Mexico. I received my PhD from the Graduate School for Social Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2008. In my dissertation I analyse the construction of motherhood discourse and experience of being a mother in colonias populares of Mexico City. I was awarded research grants from the Mexican government (1999-2000, 2005-2006) and received the Norwegian Governmental Scholarship to be a visiting scholar at the University of Oslo (2006). I am the co-editor of a two-volume reader in gender and anthropology (Gender. Perspektywa antropologiczna [Gender. An Anthropological Perspective], co-edited with Agnieszka Kościańska). Currently, in collaboration with Dr. Elżbieta Korolczuk, I am editing a volume on motherhood in Poland entitled: Pożegnanie z Matką-Polką? Dyskursy, praktyki i reprezentacje macierzyństwa we współczesnej Polsce (Farewell to the Polish Mother? Discourses, Practices, and Representations of Motherhood in Contemporary Poland).

Teaching:
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology:
Anthropology of Food and Eating
Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
Nationalism and the Politics of Everyday Life
The Anthropology of Latin America

Gender Studies at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw:
Gender in an Anthropological Perspective
Gender Studies at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Farewell to the Polish Mother? Discourses, Practices, and Representations of Motherhood in Contemporary Poland (co-taught with Elżbieta Korolczuk)
Institute for Regional and Global Studies, University of Warsaw:
Gender and Development
Lifelong Learning Programme at the University of Warsaw (Uniwersytet Otwarty):
Mexico and Mexican Culture