Country of residence

Poland

Brief introduction

Lecturer, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities

Education

PhD, Sociology, 1992, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

Academic profile

The history of the Roma Holocaust and its impact on Roma identities. Roma nationalism. Polish-Jewish relations and anti-Semitism. Cultural representations of time and space. Social anthropology of existential problems.

Publications

• Nation from the Ashes? The Experience of the Holocaust and Contemporary Romani Identities. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Scholar 2011 (in print).
• The Holocaust in the Memory of the Roma. From Trauma to Imagined Community? In: L. Stillman and G. Johanson (eds.) Constructing and Sharing Memory: Community Informatics, Identity and Empowerment. Newcastle 2007: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Rituals of Memory in Constructing Eastern European Roma Identity. In: The Role of the Romanies. Images and Self-Images of Romanies/"Gypsies" in European Cultures.  Edited by Nicholas Saul and Susan Tebbutt. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2004

Keywords

Roma, Holocaust, Identity, Culture, Memory

Contact

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