Associate researchers
Assistant Professor, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Culture and Arts, University of Warsaw
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.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of History, University of Warsaw
Gil Turingan is a Filipino scholar and educator who specializes in Thai history and politics. He holds a Ph.D. in Thai Studies from Chulalongkorn University, where his research focuses on democracy discourses, memory politics, and student movements in Thailand, with particular attention to monuments and protests.
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology University of Warsaw
Margaret Comer’s research focuses on the legacy of mass repression, Soviet and post-Soviet ways of commemoration and heritage creation, Holocaust commemoration and heritage creation, mourning and memory, and disputes about the past.
Rimantė Jaugaitė is a recent PhD graduate from the Global Histories, Cultures and Politics programme at the University of Bologna. Her dissertation explored the artistic use of coffee rituals in commemorating the Srebrenica genocide. While her recent research has focused on the Balkans, she is also interested in the wider Eastern European region and holds a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on Eastern Europe (MIREES). She is drawn to alternative memory practices, counter-narratives and memory activism,
nationalism and its impact on memory and identity, including hybrid and fluid identities. In the MEPOST project, she will focus on researching industrial heritage sites in Lithuania and Poland.
Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology of Culture at the University of Łódź
Małgorzata Łukianow, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Łódź, specialising in memory studies, sociology of culture, and social change, with prior roles at the Polish Academy of Sciences, TU Chemnitz, and as a Widzinski Senior Fellow at the University of Michigan in 2024.
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Studies, University of Warsaw, Department of Regional and Global Studies
Nicolas Maslowski studied at the Institute of Political Science in Paris (IEP), received his PhD from the University of Paris X – La Défense Nanterre in 2009. His work focuses on Central Europe, the communist and post-communist periods, international relations, historical sociology and collective memory.
Volunteer researcher
Iga Śliwska is a student at XIV Stanislaw Staszic Highschool in Warsaw and a second-year student of Business Law at the Youth Law University (Uniwersytet Młodzieży). Iga Śliwska is passionate about history, statistics and philosophy. In September 2023 she joined Zofia Wóycicka and Michalina Musielak as volunteer in the research project “Help Delivered to Jews during World War II and Transnational Memory in the Making”. Amongst others she will do press research.
Assitant Professor, Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw
Magdalena Wróblewska is art historian with special interest in museum studies, history and theory of photography, postcolonial theories. A fellow of Lieven Gevaert Centre for Photography KULeuven (2010), Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz-Max-Planck-Institut and Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (2012-2014), research fellow of Ruskin Library, Lancaster University (2014), Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2015). Head of Research in Museum of Warsaw (2015-2020), co-curator of the core exhibition Things of Warsaw (Museum of Warsaw, 2017). Authored several books and articles, including Fotografie ruin. Ruiny fotografii. 1944-2014/ Photographs of ruins. Ruins of photographs. 1944–2014 (2014); Things in a museum, in: Things of Warsaw (2017); Duality od Decolonizing: Artists’ Memory Activism in Warsaw (with Łukasz Bukowiecki and Joanna Wawrzyniak, 2021).
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw
Laura Pozzi is an historian of modern Chinese history. She interested in the entanglements between history, memory, and politics in the People’s Republic of China. She analysis the role of visual culture and museums in the shaping of the Chinese Communist Party’s memory politics. Recently she has published “Local Museum, National History: Curating Shanghai’s History in the Context of a Changing China (1994–2018)” (The International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2020), a study of the reframing of colonial heritage in the Shanghai History Museum from historical perspective.
Assistant Professor, Center for Research on Social Memory, Faculty of Sociology of the University of Warsaw
Łukasz Bukowiecki, PhD, is a scholar of cultural studies, a cultural sociologist, and a museum historian. Assistant professor at the Department of Contemporary Culture at the Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw.