Members of the Center
Graduate of Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, where she focused on medical anthropology, disability studies, 4E approaches in cognitive science, as well as posthumanist and new materialist philosophy. Her MA research examined the experiences of people after larynx resection, with particular attention to embodiment, shifts in social interactions, and self-narratives. During her PhD studies at the GSSR, >>>
Graduate of Cultural Studies at the University of Warsaw. Ph.D. student at the Section for Contemporary Culture at the Institute of Polish Culture, Warsaw University. His main research area is medical anthropology, anthropology of death and dying, and disability studies. In his M.A. thesis he examines the experience of suffering from chronic diseases. In his Ph.D. research he focuses on >>>
Baris Kamyab Muhammedrezai
PhD student at the GSSR
I finished medical school in 2021 and worked for a brief time as a General Practitioner in Istanbul. I also had the chance to work in a closed penitentiary in Istanbul for some time where I was tasked with taking care of patients with different types of psychiatric diseases. In 2022 I started working on my PhD project titled “The >>>
A graduate of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology as well as Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Warsaw. Her research interests focus on medical anthropology and the sociology of health. As part of her doctoral studies, she plans to conduct research on the experiences of individuals with eating disorders and comorbidities, and on their interactions with various healthcare systems >>>
Małgorzata Rajtar
Associate Professor, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Head of the RDSRC >>>
Collaborating Researchers
In 2015 she graduated from Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw, where she defended her master’s thesis: “Down Syndrome. Mothers’ Experience and Negotiations with Modernity”, supervised by dr Magdalena Rwadkowska-Walkowicz. The thesis received an Jan Józef Lipski Award (Open Republic Association). Since 2016 she is a PhD student at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the >>>
Ewa Ehmke vel Emczyńska-Seliga
Dietitian, Division of Pediatrics, Nutrition and Metabolic Disorders, Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw
Medical University of Warsaw graduate (PhD). Dietetic in the Department of Pediatrics, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, the Children’s Memorial Health Institute in Warsaw (Poland). Specialist in pediatric dietetics and nutrition in inborn errors of metabolism (certified Polish and foreign courses) – low and very low protein diets, low fat diets, high protein and low carbohydrates diets, ketogenic diets. Lecturer at >>>
Eva-Maria Knoll
Senior Researcher, Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Medical anthropologist with a research focus on medical anthropology at the intersections with life sciences, health-related mobility, tourism and island studies in the Indian Ocean World, with special expertise in the Maldives and their history. Currently she studies natural and man-made crisis and the biosocial impact of endemic inherited blood disorders (noteably thalassaemias and sickle cell disease) and associated questions >>>
Anna Kwaśniewska
Associate Professor
Ethnologist and Associate Professor in the Institute of Archeology and Ethnology at the University of Gdańsk, Poland. She is the author of two books and numerous articles on the Kashubian and Pomerania regions, specifically on non-material cultural heritage, coastal Kashubian fisheries, and cultural transformation. She was the PI of the project titled Non-material Cultural Heritage of the Eastern Pomerania (2013-2017); >>>
Absolwentka kulturoznawstwa w ramach Międzywydziałowych Indywidualnych Studiów Humanistycznych na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim oraz global studies na Uniwersytecie Humboldtów w Berlinie oraz Jawaharlal Nehru University w New Delhi. Jej głównymi obszarami zainteresowań są antropologia i socjologia psychiatrii i medycyny, psychiatria i psychologia krytyczna, socjologia wiedzy, socjologia i antropologia ciała oraz studia nad nauką i technologią. W ramach doktoratu prowadzi badania nad doświadczeniem >>>
I work at the University of Warsaw, where I conduct research in feminist disability studies. My research interests include topics related to violence against women with disabilities and access to reproductive rights of this group. I also look at methodological and ethical challenges around participatory research involving people with intellectual disabilities. I am an expert in non-governmental organizations working for >>>
Former members and/or collaborators
- Katarzyna Ewa Król
- Maria Libura
- Filip Rogalski