Vita

Academic positions 

• since 10/2018: Postdoctoral researcher, lecturer and curriculum administrator, Institute for Cultural Analysis and European Ethnology, LMU Munich, Germany
• 10/2023 – 09/2024: Visiting professor, Gender and Education Studies, Maria Grzegorzewska
  University Warsaw, Poland
• since 09/2023: National researcher/Poland, Horizon Europe EU-funded research project Push*Back*Lash – Anti-Gender Backlash and Democratic Pushback, University of Salzburg, Austria and Gender5+, Brussels, Belgium 
• since 06/2023: National researcher/Poland, international research project “Travelling to Seek Abortion Care:
  Abortion Travel and Support Networks for Pregnant People Seeking Abortion Care in Europe, North-
  Africa, and Latin America” (REPROMOB), Department for Social Anthropology, University of
  Barcelona, Spain

• since 10/2021: Lecturer, Central and Eastern European Studies, Chair of Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Regensburg, Germany
• 12/2010 – 06/2011: Interviewer, international research project ”Causes and Consequences of Early Socio-Cultural Integration Processes among New Immigrants in Europe”, Chair of Sociology, University of Bamberg, Germany
• 10/2009 – 10/2010: Research assistant, coordination office, Elite Graduate Program for East European Studies and Elite Network of Bavaria, Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts/LMU Munich, Germany

Scientific qualifications

• 05/2011 – 07/2018: PhD, Institute for Cultural Analysis and European Ethnology, LMU Munich, Germany (summa cum laude)
• 10/2008 – 10/2010: Master of Arts, Elite Graduate Program for East European Studies, Major: European Ethnology, Intercultural Communication, Minor: Political Science, Economics, LMU Munich/University of Regensburg, Germany
• 10/2003 – 06/2008: Magister, German Studies, Major: German Literature, Minor: Interpreting (Polish, German, English), UAM Poznań, Poland

International experience

• 09 – 11/2021: Visiting research scholar, Department of Anthropology, in cooperation with Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• 08/2021, 03/2020, 09/2019: Visiting research scholar, field study in Poland and Croatia, project ”(De)Constructing Abortion Stigma. Reproductive Rights, Body Politics and Aesthetics of (Anti)Feminist Activism in Europe”, in cooperation with Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw, Poland and University of Zagreb, Croatia
• 09 – 10/2009: Visiting student, summer school ”Revolutions in Eastern Europe in the 20th Century”, Elite Graduate Program for East European Studies, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine
• 04/2009: Visiting student, study project ”Invisible Cities. Places of Remembrance in European Urban Landscapes”, Elite Graduate Program for East European Studies, Vilnius University, Lithuania
• 10/2006 – 08/2007: Exchange student, ERASMUS program, German as Foreign Language (DaF), English Studies, Conference Interpreting, JGU Mainz/FASK Germersheim, Germany

Awards

• 05/2020: PhD award, Schroubek Fund Eastern Europe
• 07/2018: PhD award, Faculty for the Study of Culture, LMU Munich
• 11/2010: Recognition master’s thesis award, Consulate General of Poland in Munich

Grants and fellowships

• 12/2023: Postdoc Grant, LMU-NUY Cooperation Program, LMU Munich
• 02/2022, 02/2023: Postdoc Support Fund grant, LMU München
• 06/2021: Funds for equality in research and teaching, University’s Women’s Representative, LMU Munich
• 04/2021: Kretzenbacher travel grant (Croatia), Schroubek Fund Eastern Europe
• 08/2020: Postdoc fellowship, LMU-UCB Research in the Humanities (USA), LMU Munich
• 05/2020: Postdoc-grant, Overhead Funding, German Research Foundation (DFG)
• 01/2019 – 12/2021: Diverse grants, Mentoring Program excellence KWFak., LMU Munich
• 10/2018 – 05/2020: Diverse grants, PhD thesis publication: Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation for Humanities, Schroubek Fund Eastern Europe, Women’s Representative LMU Munich, Mentoring Program excellence KWFak.
• 02/2015 – 05/2015: Graduation fellowship, GraduateCenter, LMU Munich
• 05/2011 – 05/2014: Kretzenbacher PhD fellowship, Schroubek Fund Eastern Europe
• 10/2008 – 10/2010: Go West fellowship, Haniel Foundation
• 10/2006 – 08/2007: ERASMUS grant, UAM Poznań/JGU Mainz
• 10/2004 – 10/2008: Fellowship for outstanding academic achievements, UAM Poznań

Memberships

• 2023: European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health (ESC)
• 2022: Croatian Ethnological Society (HED), Polish Ethnological Society (PTL)
• 2021: Commission Gender Studies and Queer Anthropology, German Society for Cultural Analysis | European Ethnology (KGQA)
• 2019: German Association for Empirical Cultural Studies (DGEKW)
• 2018: International Association for Southeast European Anthropology (InASEA), European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Munich Association for European Ethnology (MVV)
• 2015: Southeast Europe Association (SOG)
• 2014: British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)
• 2011: International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) 

Cooperations and (inter)national networks

• seit 09/2023: Network member, interdisciplinary network Knowing Laughter, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Germany (Chair. Dr. Roxanne Phillips)
• since 08/2023: Research associate, research group AFIN Barcelona, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (Chair: Prof. Dr. Diana Marre)
• since 06/2023: Research associate, research group on gender, identity and diversity Grup de Recerca
  en Gènere, Identitat i Diversitat (GENI), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (Chair: Dr. Olga Jubany, Dr. Silvia de Zordo)
• since 12/2021: Affiliated research scholar, research network Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, USA (Chair: Prof. Carole Joffe)
• 09/2021 – 10/2022: Affiliated research scholar, research network Populist Aesthetics in Cultural Perspectives: Truthmaking, Faking, and the Politics of Affect in (Digital) Media, Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany (Chair: Dr. Cathrine Bublatzky)
• 10/2008 – 10/2010: Research associate, interdisciplinary research project “Invisible Cities”. Memory Sites in European Urban Landscapes, Vilnius, Lithuania and Munich, Germany (Chair: Prof. Dr. Martin Schulze Wessel, Prof. Dr. Irene Götz, Dr. Ekaterina Makhotina)

• 07/2024: Co-organizer, conference panel Un/Doing Reproduction: Transnational Reproductive Justice in Times of (Post-)Pandemics and Anti-Gender Campaigns, 18th SIEF Congress Doing and Undoing with Anthropology, Bracelona, Spain (with Prof. Dr. Silvia De Zordo, Prof. Dr. Joanna Mishtal)
• 04/2024: Co-organizer, 3rd International REPROMOB Conference Between Conservative Onslaughts and Conquests of Rights: Vulnerabilities, Inequalities and Reproductive Justice, Buenos Aires, Argentina (with Dr. Carla Villata, Prof. Dr. Diana Marre)
• 11/2023: Mapping Gender Struggles. Gender as a Field of Conflict in Contemporary Social Movements, 18th Conference of the Commission on Women’s and Gender Research in the German Society for Empirical Cultural Studies (DGEKW), LMU Munich and Women’s Academy Munich, Munich, Germany (with Dr. Miriam Gutekunst, Dr. Alex Rau und Dr. Birgit Erbe); chair, conference panel “Body Politics: Konflikte um Abtreibung zwischen West- und Osteuropa“, roundtable “The Female Face of Protest – Spotlight on Belarus“ (with Dr. Olga Shparaga)
• 10/2023: Co-organizer, conference panel Images of Migration – Migration of Images. On the Entanglements of Aesthetics and Emotions in Contemporary Europe, 19th IUAES-WAU World Anthropology Congress, New Delhi, India (with Dr. Magdalena Lemańczyk)
• 06/2022: Co-organizer, interdisciplinary conference panel On the Move. Rethinking the Trajectories of (Re)Migration and Mobility in Europe, RE:22. Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland (with Prof. Dr. Outi Fingerroos, Dr. Magdalena Lemańczyk)
• 08 – 09/2021: Co-organizer, interdisciplinary summer school Contemporary Histor(y/ies) at the Museum: Global, National and Local Narratives in the Polish Tricity, Elite Graduate Program East European Studies, LMU Munich, in cooperation with European Solidarity Center in Gdańsk, Center for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences Berlin, Tricity, Poland (with Prof. Dr. Kornelia Kończal, Dr. Magdalena Lemańczyk, Dr. Jacek Kołtan)
• 11/2020 – 02/2021: Co-organizer, interdisciplinary research colloquium Feminisms in Europe. Conflicts – Positions – Strategies, Institute for Cultural Analysis and European Ethnology, LMU Munich/Women’s Academy, Munich, Germany (with Dr. Birgit Erbe, Dr. Miriam Gutekunst)

Committee Involvement and Academic Self-Governance

• since 10/2023: Commission Spokeswoman, Commission Gender Studies and Queer Anthropology, German Society for Cultural Analysis | European Ethnology (DGEKW)
• since 04/2019: Member of the Selection Committee, Elite Graduate Program for Eastern European Studies, LMU Munich

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