Zuzanna Bogumił is an anthropologist and sociologist specializing in memory studies, with a particular focus on the memory of Soviet repressions and the entanglements between memory and religion in Central and Eastern Europe. Bogumił previously worked at the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw (2011–2020) and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2020–2024), where she led several international projects.
Bogumił analyzes historical exhibitions in Central and Eastern Europe, the memory of local and urban communities in Poland, and the memory of Soviet repressions in Russia. This last topic has been her main research focus for many years. Additionally, she examines the relationship between memory and religion, as well as the role of memory in decolonization processes. Since 2022, following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she has also been engaged in anthropology of migration.
Her published works include among others: More than Alive: The Dead, Orthodoxy and Remembrance in Post-Soviet Russia (with T. Voronina, Peter Lang, 2023), Milieux de mémoire in Late Modernity: Local Communities, Religion and Historical Politics (with M. Głowacka-Grajper, Peter Lang, 2019), and the co-edited volume Memory and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective (with. Y. Yurchuk, Routledge 2022), Gulag Memories: The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia’s Repressive Past (Berghahn Books, 2018).