Academic profile
I study early modern relationships of care. My research is archive-driven, reflexive, and informed by historical anthropology, microhistory, environmental history, and ethics of care. With a strong background in Cultural Studies, I employ the anthropological toolbox to review early modern popular literature: household books, agronomic treaties, broadbooks, and astrological almanacs. I enjoy writing speculative essays that combine archival research with a multifaceted cultural-historic reflection. My 2019 book "Archeologia zatroskania" [Archaeology of Care], offers a microhistorical study of almanac annotations against a broader reflection on the shift in the temporal regime triggered by the scientific revolution of the 17th century, with its consequences for early modern modes of rationality, production of memory and techniques of the self.
Background
- 2021-2022 Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies, University of Warsaw
- 2020-2021 Swiss Excellence Grant Fellow, Institute of History, University of Bern
- 2018-2020 Assistant Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of Warsaw
- 2018 Ph.D. (Hons) in Cultural Studies, University of Warsaw
Awards
- Academia 2021 in the category ‘Best academic and scientific book,’ awarded at the 11th Warsaw Book Fair 2021 for The Chopin Games (Warsaw University Press 2021)
- Third-Degree Individual Award for Scientific Achievements (2020), University of Warsaw
- nomination for the Jan Jędrzejewicz Award for the Best Book on the History of Science and Technology, awarded by the Polish Academy of Sciences for Archaeology of Care (Warsaw University Press 2019)
- Gaudeamus 2019 from the Polish Academic Publishers Association for Archaeology of Care (Warsaw University Press 2019)
Research projects
- 2016–2020 Cultural History of the Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition, financed by National Science Centre, Poland, as co-investigator
- 2012–2014 Mnemonics and Cultural Memory in the Former Ages, financed by Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland, as co-investigator
Teaching in the 2023/2024 academic year
- HIS2980 – Mapping Schools of History
- HIS4227 Introduction to Global Environmental History
- HIS1200 The Scientific Revolution: A contested concept
Research supervision
I welcome students interested in the history of early modern Europe, especially those working with popular print sources; interested in temporality or environmental ethics of care; and employing the methods of microhistory and historical anthropology.