Professor Zbigniew Szmyt - Researcher
Anthropologist, an employee of the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology of the University of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, member of the Adam Mickiewicz University Centre for Migration Studies. His research interests focus on migration studies, border studies and public history. As part of his research activities, he has conducted numerous field projects in Poland, Russia, China, and Mongolia.
email: szmytz@amu.edu.pl
Veronika Soloshenko - Researcher
Interdisciplinary Individual Studies (MA) in pedagogy graduate with a focus on counselling and psycho-pedagogical aid. She is particularly interested in intercultural education, namely the creation of educational spaces that promote integration and the expansion of intercultural dialogue. She is also a translator who specializes in Polish and Ukrainian.
Oleksandiya Demydenko - Researcher
Graduate of Eastern Studies at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań, where she developed her passion for the culture, history and politics of Eastern Europe, especially Ukraine. She is currently a second-year, second-cycle student of Ukrainian philology at Adam Mickiewicz University. Her master's thesis is devoted to the issue of Ukrainian migration to the region of Greater Poland. The aim of her research is not only to document migration processes but also to understand better how migration affects the identity and daily lives of both migrants and host communities.
email: sashademydenko22@gmail.com
Aleksandra Krzyżaniak - PHD candidate
A socio-cultural anthropologist and PhD student at Adam Mickiewicz University's Institute
of Anthropology and Ethnology in Poznan, as well as a member of the Centre for Migration Studies UAM. During her studies, among others, she conducted research on Poznan's municipal government and the local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She also collaborated with institutions like the Poznan Center for Local Initiatives Piatkowo Polnoc. Her scientific interests include the anthropology of refugees, gender studies, and political anthropology.
PHD Klaudia Kosicińska - Postdoc
She received her PhD in 2023 from the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, after she did internships at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt Oder. Her research has so far focused on regimes of mobility, multi-ethnic neighborhoods and practices of translocality in the borderlands of Georgia and Azerbaijan. She is a co-author of the research project “Azerbaijanis and Armenians in Georgia, uncertain peace and conflict mobility in a context of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war” conducted in cooperation with Tbilisi State University in 2021-2023, funded by the National Agency for Academic Exchange and a recipient of Preludium grant from the National Science Centre.
Professor Natalia Bloch - Principal Investigator
Anthropologist, employee of the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, member of the Adam Mickiewicz University Centre for Migration Studies, vice-president of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, and member of the Migration Research Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her academic interests situate in the anthropology of mobility, with a focus on the relations between refugeehood, migration, and tourism. She conducts research in India – in Tibetan refugee settlement, among mobile workers of the informal tourism sector, and on forced displacement from an area inscribed on the UNESCO list, and in Poland – in the area of migrant and refugee integration.
email: nbloch@amu.edu.pl
Meet our team