Members of the Center
Since 2016 I have conducted anthropological research on rare (metabolic) diseases in Finland and Poland as the Principal Investigator of two projects: “Socio-cultural dimensions of rare diseases: The case of LCHAD deficiency. A comparative study of Poland and Finland” (2016-2019), and “An Anthropology of Rare Diseases. A Study of the Baltic Sea Region” (2018-2022). I studied in the College of >>>
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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 >>>
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 >>>
Collaborating Researchers
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); >>>
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 >>>
Ethnologist and cultural anthropologist. He studied ethnology and anthropology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Autònoma University in Barcelona and École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. In 2016 he defended doctoral thesis Animizm, perspektywizm i sprawczość u ludu Arabela z Amazonii peruwiańskiej ["Animism, perspectivism and agency among the Arabela from the Peruvian Amazonia"] (UAM, Poznań). Conducted >>>
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 >>>
Maria Libura
Head of Medical Training and Simulation Centre, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
Maria Libura is the Head of Medical Training and Simulation Centre, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. She is a founding member and vice president of the Polish Society for Medical Communication, a healthcare expert of the Jagiellonian Club Analytical Centre, and a former Fulbrighter. For the past fifteen years she has been involved in the rare disease movement >>>