Anthropologist
e-mail: karolina.bielenin-lenczowska@ispan.edu.pl
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5472-6240
Academia.edu: https://uw.academia.edu/KarolinaBieleninLenczowska
Research interests
- anthropology of migration and mobility;
- linguistic anthropology;
- contemporary transnational migration;
- socio-linguistic landscape;
- Polish Diaspora in Brazil;
- ethnography of Macedonia.
Membership in scientific bodies
- Polish Ethnological Society (member);
- European Association of Social Anthropologists (member);
- International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (member);
- Associação Brasileira de Antropologia (member).
Scholarships
- 2015-2016 Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Department of Social Anthropology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil;
- „Clio” Distinction awarded by the University of Warsaw (UW) Rector for the book „Spaghetti z ajwarem. Translokalna codzienność muzułmanów w Macedonii i we Włoszech”, WUW 2015.
- 2011-2014 Scholarship for outstanding young scientists from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland);
- 2011-2012 Sholarship in the framework of a project „Modern University” for outstanding young scientists;
- 2007 and 2008 START Sholarship of the Foundation for the Polish Science (FNP).
Publications
Monographs:
- Koloniści z Rio Claro. Krajobraz społeczno-językowy „polskiej” wsi w południowej Brazylii, forthcoming at Słowo/obraz terytoria
- Spaghetti z ajwarem. Translokalna codzienność muzułmanów w Macedonii i we Włoszech, Warszawa: WUW, 2015.
- Rodzina, ród, pokrewieństwo w perspektywie lingwistyczno-antropologicznej, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Wydziału Polonistyki UW, 2008.
Edited monographs/journal issues:
- [with Renata E. Hryciuk] Jedzenie i mobilność w perspektywie antropologicznej, “Studia Socjologiczne” 2018 no. 4.
- Anthropology of continuity and change. Macedonian Poreče 80 years after Józef Obrębski’s research, Warsaw 2015.
- [with David Henig] Being Muslims in the Balkans: Ethnographies of Identity, Politics and Vernacular Islam in South-East Europe, “Anthropological Journal of European Cultures” 2013 no. 2, vol. 22.
- Sąsiedztwo w obliczu konfliktu. Relacje społeczne i etniczne w zachodniej Macedonii – refleksje antropologiczne, Warszawa 2009: DiG.
Articles (selected):
- 2022, Polok, co nie godo po polsku to głupi Polok. Praktyki i ideologie językowe potomków Polaków w południowobrazylijskiej wsi, „LUD. Organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Ludoznawczego”, 106, 55-74.
- [with Iwona Kaliszewska] 2021, Teaching fieldwork experience, experiment, embodiment, emotions, “Teaching Anthropology. Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute”, no. 10, vol. 2, p. 1-9.
- 2020, A paisagem socio-linguistica: a politica, a diversidade e a migração no espaço publico. Os estudos de caso, “Forum Linguistico” no. 17, vol. 4, 2020, p. 5275-5288.
- 2018, Pierogi z fiżonem. Praktyki jedzeniowe i tożsamość Brazylijczyków polskiego pochodzenia w południowobrazylijskiej wsi, „Studia Migracyjne-Przegląd Polonijny”, no. 167, vol. 1, p. 23–47.
- 2014, The in-between Generation. Immigrants and the Problem of a Dual Sense of Belonging, “Colloquia Humanistica” vol. 3.
- 2010, Different models of labour migration in contemporary Macedonia – or what does pečalba mean now?, “Ethnologia Balkanica”, vol. 14.
Book chapters (selected):
- [with Helena Patzer] 2022, Restaurant backyards, food stores, and temples. Invisibility, informal labour practices, and migrant networks in the suburbs of Warsaw, ed. Abel Polese, Informality, Labour Mobility and Precariousness, Cham: Palgrave, 69-93.
- 2018, Macedonian Poreče between idyllic imaginaries and post-socialist realities. Reflections from an ethnographic revisit, in: Utopia and Neoliberalism: Ethnographies of rural spaces, red. Hana Horáková, Andrea Boscoboinik, Robin Smith, Berlin: LiT Verlag, p. 171-186.
- 2017, Spaghetti with ajvar: An ethnography of gender, learning and change, in: Food parcels: intimate connexions in transnational migration, red. Diana Mata-Codesal, Maria Abranches, Palgrave, p. 117-139.