Katarzyna Ewa Król is a cultural anthropologist and sociologist; she is currently a PhD student at the Graduate School for Social Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, where she works on a dissertation "Knowledge production and biomedical cultures within rare diseases in Poland". Co-convenor of the Rare Disease Social Research Center (RDSRC) at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology in the Polish Academy of Sciences. She conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Georgia and Poland. In 2014 she won prestigious Diamond Grant competition of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland) for outstanding young researchers.
Projects
Edited volume & Journal Special Issue
- Rajtar, Małgorzata & Katarzyna E. Król (eds.). Entanglements of Rare Diseases in the Baltic Sea Region. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/ Rowman & Littlefield. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666942385/Entanglements-of-Rare-Diseases-in-the-Baltic-Sea-Region
- Hryciuk, Renata E. & Katarzyna E. Król (red.). 2020. The cultural politics of food and eating in Poland and beyond. Special Issue. Ethnologia Polona 41. Open Access Available at: https://journals.iaepan.pl/ethp/issue/view/2
Peer-reviewed Journal articles and book chapters
- Rajtar, Małgorzata & Katarzyna E. Król. 2023. In: Entanglements of Rare Diseases in the Baltic Sea Region,M. Rajtar & K. E. Król (eds.), 1-20. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/ Rowman & Littlefield.
- Król, Katarzyna E. & Ewa Ehmke vel. Emczyńska-Seliga. Food as Medicine: Culinary Workshops for Patients with Rare Inborn Errors of Metabolism from Anthropological and Dietary Perspectives. In: Entanglements of Rare Diseases in the Baltic Sea Region, M. Rajtar & K. E. Król (eds.), pp. 67-88. Lexington Books/ Rowman & Littlefield.
- Król, Katarzyna E. & Małgorzata Rajtar. Practicing Resilience While Negotiating the Pandemic: The Experiences of People with Rare Diseases in Poland. In: Negotiating the Pandemic: Cultural, National and Individual Constructions of COVID-19. I. Ali & R. Davies-Floyd (eds.), pp. 125-138. New York: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003187462-11 Open Access. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003187462-11/practicing-resilience-negotiating-pandemic-katarzyna-kr%C3%B3l-ma%C5%82gorzata-rajtar
- Król, Katarzyna. 2021. Navigating the void: A qualitative study of patients with rare inborn errors of metabolism perception of healthcare regulations. In: Equal Access to healthcare in Europe. P. Łuków, A. Muzur, Z. Zupanič Slavec, and F. Steger, pp. 85-110. Warsaw: Scholar Publishing House.
- Hryciuk, Renata E. & Katarzyna E. Król. 2020. INTRODUCTION: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF FOOD AND EATING IN POLAND AND BEYOND. Ethnologia Polona 41: 5-11. DOI: 10.23858/ethp.2020.41.2494
- Król, Katarzyna E. “WE HAVE ALL LIVED AND BREATHED TEA.” GENDERED MORAL ECONOMIES OF FACTORY TEA PRODUCTION IN WESTERN GEORGIA. Ethnologia Polona 41: 93-111. DOI: 10.23858/ethp.2020.41.2415