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Area of interest:
ethnology, symbolic culture in Poland, Ukraine and other Slavic countries
tbaraniuk@interia.pl +48 22 553 16 57
associate professor
Coordinator of Mobility (ERASMUS, CEEPUS, International Visegrad Fund; bilateral agreements)
Area of interest:
anthropology of migration / mobility, social relations in multiethnic societies, Balkan studies, Polish Diaspora Studies, cultural heritage
k.bielenin@uw.edu.pl +48 22 55 31 657
Assistant Profesor
Area of interest:
memory studies, religion and memory entanglements, post-secular approach to memory processes, decolonial and post-colonialism with particular emphasis on post-communist regions, anthropology of historical museums, anthropology of migration and in particular migrations related to war mobilizationResearch areas: Russia, France, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Estonia
z.bogumil@uw.edu.pl
Area of interest:
regional and historical diversity of Poland, religion and social behaviours of inhabitants of Masovia and Podlachia, contemporary culture of the Vilnius region (Lithuania); non-material culture
mkbraun@gazeta.pl
assistant professor
Area of interest:
Media, religion, music, subjectivity, Central Africa, global net
piotrcichocki81@gmail.com +48 22 55 316 55
Area of interest:
heritage studies, memory studies, museum studies, dark heritage, uncomfortable heritage, heritage and memory of Soviet repression, heritage and memory of the Holocaust, heritage of mass repression and genocide, grievability, contested memory, instrumentalization and weaponization of the past Research areas: Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia
m.comer@uw.edu.pl
USOS Administrator
email: m.gluszek@uw.edu.pl +48 22 55 316 16; tel./fax +48 22 55 316 11
Area of interest:
Anthropology of ritual and performance, religion, tourism, globalization, and mobility. Ethnography of Afro-Brazilian culture and religion, and African diaspora in the Americas.
Associate Professor
Area of interest:
geographic mobility (tourism and migration), leisure studies, collective identities, urban greenspaces, environmental anthropology and anthropology of climate change, discourse analysis
a.horolets@uw.edu.pl
assistant professor
Area of interest:
gender, politics, food and eating, and popular culture
r.hryciuk@uw.edu.pl +48 22 55 316 57
Associate Professor
Area of interest:
anthropology of development and public policies, postdevelopment, economic anthropology, sustainable degrowth, Peasant Studies, social movements, applied research, activist anthropology.
Administrative Director
j.jasionowska@uw.edu.pl +48 22 55 316 16; tel./fax +48 22 55 316 11
assistant professor
Deputy Director (International Collaboration)
Area of interest:
anthropology of the state, Islamic economics, religious and secular power (an anthropological perspective), ethnography of conflict and unstable sites (cases of Dagestan and Chechnya) and application of computer programmes for analysis of fieldwork materials.
i.kaliszewska@uw.edu.pl +48 22 5531654 consultation hours
Professor
Area of interest:
gender, sexuality, sex education, religion, history of science, history of sexuality, race, racism, neo conservatism, engaged anthropology, Poland, Central Europe
akoscianska@uw.edu.pl +48 22 553 16 58
Head of the Library and Archive
Area of interest:
Digital Collection of Ethnographic Texts - Project Coordinator (Polish Institute of Anthropology)
j.m.kozminska@uw.edu.pl +48 22 55 316 15
assistant professor
Area of interest:
ethnopolitology, economic anthropology (mainly work, decision making and cultural contexts of counting), everyday life in rural areas.
a.krzyworzeka@uw.edu.pl +48 22 55 31 658
assistant professor
Area of interest:
I am mostly interested in contemporary ethnical and identity related processes in Eastern Europe and Siberia. I focus on: identity, ethnic relations in small local communities of borderlands, situation of national, ethnic and religious minorities, contemporary processes of construction of nations. I conduct my fieldwork in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and Ukraine.
email: w.lipinski@uw.edu.pl telephone: +48 22 55 31 657
adjunct professor
Area of interest:
anthropology of religion, anthropology of cultural borderlands, Islam and Christianity in the post-ottoman territories, religious (anti) syncretism, neighborhood, shared shrines, postsecular studies, anthropological theories, (post)memories of World War II and postwar years in Polish Subcarpathia, non-western ontologies and their representations in anthropological theory, fieldwork: polish-ukrainian borderland, Bulgaria.
magdalena.lubanska@gmail.com +48 22 55 31 658
adiunkt naukowy
Zakład Antropologii Medycyny i Cielesności
Investigator
Area of interest:
Cultural dimensions of childhood; methodology of research with children; family and kinship; anthropology of reproduction
emaciejewska@uw.edu.pl
adiunkt
PhD Studies:
Faculty of History, University of Warsaw
President of the Scientific Board of the Institute
Head of the Political and Economic Anthropology Section of the Institute
Area of interest:
Political anthropology, local knowledge, common sense, social uses of media, digital ethnography
a.malewska-szalygin@uw.edu.pl +48 22 55 316 11; tel.fax +48 22 55 316 12
Area of interest:
interethnic relations, ethnic identity; long-term research on Gypsy/Roma in Poland and Europe; fieldwork conducted in Polish-Lithuanian-Byelorussian borderland (currently in collaboration with Ukrainian ethnologists from the Lviv State Ivan Franko University); expeditions to Mongolia (fieldwork among the Khalkha, the Torghut and the Dukha [Tsaatan]), India (Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan), and the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic (fieldwork among the Yakuts and the Evenks).
l.mroz@uw.edu.pl +48 22 55 316 59; tel./fax +48 22 55 316 12
assistant professor
Area of interest:
blue anthropology and anthropology of water, blue humanities, ethnography of the Pacific Islands, especially French Polynesia, indigenous activism, postcolonialism Research area: French Polynesia, Poland (river areas: Bóbr, Biebrza, Brzozówka, Wisła, Odra, Drna, Żurawka)
Professor emeritus
Area of interest:
Ethnography of Poland and other Slavic countries, folk art and architecture. Fieldwork conducted in Poland, Byelorussia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and the Balkans (Macedonia and Bulgaria).
Associate Professor
Area of interest:
childhood studies, medical anthropology, reproductive health, rights and policies; gender studies, Poland
m.walkowicz@uw.edu.pl +48 22 5531616
Associate Professor
Director of the Institute
Area of interest:
anthropology & social art, phenomenological anthropology, pre-textual ethnography, studies on poverty and social trauma, bottom-up development in Poland and Mongolia.
tomaszrak@tlen.pl +48 22 5531658
assistant professor
Area of interest:
visual anthropology, death and memory, current problems of the theory of anthropology, especially reflexive anthropology.
slawomir.sikora@uw.edu.pl + 48 22 55 31 655
Area of interest:
globalisation
jswasilewski@uw.edu.pl +48 22 55 316 59
assistant professor
Area of interest:
ethnography of Polish regions; ethic, national and religious minorities living in Poland; identity issues in Eastern Europe, nation-building processes; area of reseach: Central-East Europe: Belarus, Poland
k.waszczynska@uw.edu.pl +48 22 55 31 657
Area of interest:
anthropology of body; anthropology of toursim
anna.wieczorkiewicz@uw.edu.pl
assistant professor
Deputy director of student affairs
Area of interest:
medical anthropology
hubertwier@gmail.com +48 22 5531656
Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology University of Warsaw; Head of Section of Ethnic and Transcultural Studies
Area of interest:
Ethnography of Africa and the Middle East, Anthropology of politics, including anthropology of war, national identity, relation between the self and the other, studies on refugees and cultural context of human rights.
maciejzabek2@yahoo.com +48 22 5531659
Head of Theory and Study of Contemporary Cultural Practices Unit (from 2016; Head of Ethnology of Poland and Europe Unit 2003-2016)
Area of interest:
anthropology of religion, the Apocrypha, prayer, sacrifice, contemporary religious expression and its connections to identity in various milieus and social groups
h.m.zowczak@uw.edu.pl +48 22 55 31 659
1932-2020
Area of interest:
economic anthropology, theory of culture, transcultural communication and European integration. Fieldwork conducted in Poland, Brittany, Macedonia, Mongolia
1938-2014
Area of interest:
Ethnography of Europe, customs in contemporary culture. Fieldwork conducted in Poland and the Balkans