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
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:
anthropology of the individual and impact of (post-)modern media, Australian urban Aborigenes.
piotrcichocki81@gmail.com +48 22 55 316 55
USOS Administrator
Area of interest:
Macedonia
email: m.gluszek@uw.edu.pl +48 22 55 316 16; tel./fax +48 22 55 316 11
Area of interest:
anthropology of religion, cognitive anthropology, legal anthropology, methodology, socialism and post-socialism Russia, Inner Asia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Slovakia
a.halemba@uw.edu.pl +48 22 55 31 657
assistant professor
Area of interest:
gender, politics, food and eating, and popular culture
r.hryciuk@uw.edu.pl +48 22 55 316 57
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 politics, anthropology of the state, 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
assistant professor
Area of interest:
anthropology of art, especially art's powers of distinction in Modernity (kitsch, historical heritage monuments), as well as materiality of objects considered art
evakot@poczta.onet.pl +48 22 5531658
Associate Professor
Area of interest:
gender, sexuality, sex education, religion, history of science, history of sexuality, engaged anthropology, Poland, Central Europe
akoscianska@uw.edu.pl +48 22 553 16 58
Administration Staff
m.h.kowalska@uw.edu.pl +48 22 55 316 11; tel./fax +48 22 55 316 12
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
Zakład Antropologii Kulturowej
Postdoctoral research fellow - National Science Centre (NCN) grant FUGA
l.krokoszynski@gmail.com
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:
political anthropology; the anthropology of the state; place and space; infrastructure and the built environment; resistance; protest movements; anarchism; affect theory
m.laszczkowsk5@uw.edu.pl consultation hours
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
assistant professor
Area of interest:
anthropology of religion
magdalena.lubanska@gmail.com +48 22 55 31 658
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
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
Wspomaganie informatyczne IEiAK UW
Area of interest:
deviation from the point of view of cultural anthropology; communication processes in local communities; relation between an individual and society; family life and kinship in local communities.
a.perzanowski@uw.edu.pl +48 22 553 16 55
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, anthropology of reproduction, cultural dimensions of biotechnology and genetics, anthropology of literature
m.walkowicz@uw.edu.pl +48 22 5531658
assistant professor
Area of interest:
anthropology of art, phenomenological anthropology, pretextual 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
assistant professor
Area of interest:
anthropology of landscape; issues of broadly defined anthropology of ethnicity; national identification of inhabitants of Eastern Europe and Siberia, Russia. Fieldwork: Lithuania, Siberia, Mongolia.
l.smyrski@uw.edu.pl + 48 22 553 16 55
Area of interest:
economic anthropology, theory of culture, transcultural communication and European integration. Fieldwork conducted in Poland, Brittany, Macedonia, Mongolia
etnologia@uw.edu.pl (e-mail to the Institute) +48 22 55 36 59
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
awieczor@ifispan.waw.pl +48 22 55 31 659
assistant professor
Deputy director of student affairs
Area of interest:
medical anthropology
hubertwier@gmail.com +48 22 5531656
Area of interest:
medical anthropology, childhood studies, transcultural psychiatry, child and youth psychiatry, mindfulness, memory studies, visual anthropology, anthropology of space
anna.witeska@gmail.com
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
1938-2014
Area of interest:
Ethnography of Europe, customs in contemporary culture. Fieldwork conducted in Poland and the Balkans