OUR TEAM
Dr hab. Krzysztof Jaskułowski
Krzysztof Jaskulowski works as an Associate Professor at University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. He holds PhD in history and second PhD (habilitation) in sociology. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advances Studies in the Humanities in Edinburgh and at Kluge Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. His research interests include theories of nationalism, nationalism and popular culture, political symbolism and mythology, identity politics and migration studies. He authored three books, inter allia Nationalism without nations. Nationalism in Anglophone Social Sciences (2009) published by the Foundation for Polish Science. He is also a co-editor of the book series Nationalisms across the Globe in Peter Lang publishing house.
Dr Agnieszka Bielewska
Agnieszka Bielewska received her PhD in Social Geography from Manchester Metropolitan University, the United Kingdom in 2010 and currently is a lecturer at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty in Wrocław, Poland. Her main academic interests are national identity, international migration, materiality and relations between place and identity. Her recent research has been focused on the impact of globalisation on national identity and the connection between the identity and urban space. The list of her publications includes:
(2018) “Game of labels: identification of highly skilled migrants” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
with K. Jaskułowski (2017) “Place Belonging in a Mobile World. A Case Study of Migrant Professionals.” Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 53 (3): 343-368
(2016) „Wpływ specjalnych stref ekonomicznych na migracje - przykład województwa dolnośląskiego” Rynek – Społeczeństwo- Kultura. Rozwój regionalny i lokalny 2:23-31
(2015) ‘Imigracja wewnętrzna i międzynarodowa a globalność Wrocławia. Internal and international immigration and globality of Wrocław’, Studia Ekonomiczne. Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Katowicach 223: 152 -161.
(2012) Changing Identities of Polishness: Post-War and Post-Accession Polish Migrants in Manchester. Oxford & Bern: Peter Lang.
Dr Marek Pawlak
Marek Pawlak is a postdoctoral researcher appointed to Society-Environment-Technology Project in Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Jagiellonian University in Kraków and researcher of Jagiellonian Centre for Migration Studies (JCSM) at Jagiellonian University and of Centre for Migration Studies (CeBaM) atAdam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He holds PhD in anthropology from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
His research interests focus on migration and mobility (regimes of mobility; migration, social class and gender; relations between mobility and locality in transnational lives), globalisation (transnationalism and interconnectedness; migration and neoliberalism; capitalism), identity politics (ethnicity and nationalism; multiculturalism; social cohesion, inclusion and exclusion; marginalization and stigmatisation) and public anthropology. His other research projects are: Conflict, Tension, Cooperation. A Case Study of Mutual Interaction between Opole Power Station and the Community of Dobrzeń Wielki, Socio-Cultural Identification of Foreigners, Cultural Complexity in the New Norway. His publications include:
(2015) ‘Othering the Self. National Identity and Social Class in Mobile Lives.’ In M. Buchowski, H. Červinková and Z. Uherek (eds.), Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe, Palgrave Macmillan (in print).
(2015) ‘Paradoks neoliberalizmu: migracje, kryzys ekonomiczny i podwójne wiązanie [The Paradox of Neoliberalism: Migration, Economic Crisis and the Double Bind].’ W. J. Burszta and M. Rauszer (eds.), Antropologia neoliberalizmu [Anthropology of Neoliberalism], Wydawnictwo Naukowe Katedra (in print).
H. Červinková and M. Pawlak (2014) ‘Nové migrační trendy po roce 1989 a 2004 ve střední a východní Evropě (česká a polská perspektiva) [New Migration Trends after 1989 and 2004 in Central-Estearn Europe (Czech and Polish Perspective)].’ In S. Brouček and T. Grulich (eds.) Nová migrace z České republiky po roce 1989 a návratová politika [New Migration from Czech Republic after 1989 and the Return Policy], Praha: Etnologicky ustav AV ČR, v. v. i., pp. 179–185.
(2012) ‘My, w Norwegii, mówimy na nich Polakkene. Tożsamość, mobilność i habitus migrantów [In Norway we call them Polakkene. Identity, mobility and migrants’ habitus].’ In M. Buchowski and J. Schmidt (eds.) Imigranci: między izolacją a integracją [Immigrants: between isolation and integration], Poznań: Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje, pp. 121–137.
(2011) ‘Beyond Locality. Z profesorem Thomasem Hyllandem Eriksenem rozmawiał Marek Pawlak [Beyond Locality. A Discussion with Thomas Hylland Eriksen].’ Tematy z Szewskiej, No. 1(5), pp. 11–19.
Dr Adrainna Surmiak
Adrianna Surmiak holds MA in sociology, and PhD in ethnology. Her research interests involve: sociology and anthropology of morality, lying, cultural dimension of prostitution, fieldwork research ethics and methodology. She is the president of the Foundation for the Development of Social Skills ‘Consensus’ which deals with the development of social skills among young people and adults. She is also a member of the board of the Association ‘Misja Dworcowa’ that helps people who want to get out of prostitution and organized of workshops and trainings on sexual risk prevention in the framework of the Lower Silesian Year Juvenile Prostitution Prevention (2006). Her publication includes articles on lying, prostitution and fieldwork ethics. Currently, she is working on a monograph analyzing a question of lying from the perspective of cultural anthropology.