Cultural anthropologist (PhD in the humanities in the field of cultural and religious studies), researcher of nation-building processes and decolonial perspectives in post-Soviet countries.
e-mail: aneta.strzemzalska@ispan.edu.pl
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5411-0772
Research interests
Political anthropology, the anthropology of war and conflict, nationalism and ethnicity, and decolonial perspectives on post-Soviet countries.
(photo: Joanna Zyzak)
Research projects
- Principal investigator of the NCN grant “Between Civil Society and Ethnic Nationalism: An Ethnographic Perspective on Decolonization in Contemporary Armenia” (no. 2025/56/C/HS3/00247).
Publications
- Strzemżalska, A. (2025). The Pandemic Crisis: Power Relations and Social Mobilization in Dagestan during COVID-19. Caucasus Survey, in press.
- Strzemżalska, A. (2021). Azerbaijani Meykhana: Cultural Policy and Local Actors’ Agenda. In A. Polese (eds.), Informality, Labour Mobility and Precariousness: Supplementing the State for the Invisible and the Vulnerable. Dublin: Palgrave Macmillan, 201–222.
- Strzemżalska, A. (2021). Niewielu stać na taką odwagę – rozmowa z Lejlą Alijewą, In Z. Rokita & T. Stępniewski (eds.), Sojuz ruszymyj. Związek Sowiecki 30 lat po upadku. Lublin: Instytut Europy Wschodniej, 94–103.
- Стшемжальска, А. (2021). Джаббар Гарягдыоглы и Бюльбюль. Из истории формирования азербайджанской школы пения (конец XIX – первая половина ХХ веков). История, археология и этнография Кавказа, 17 (1), 222–235.
- Стшемжальска, А. (2021). Азербайджанский тар: национальная музыка и проекты реконструкции инструмента. Традиционная культура, 22 (1), 53–64.
- Strzemżalska, A. (2020). Slam in the Name of Country: Nationalism in Contemporary Azerbaijani Meykhana. Slavic Review, 79 (2), 323–344.
- Стшемжальска, А. (2020). От андеграунда к национальной традиции. Брендинг азербайджанской мейханы. Фольклор и антропология города, III (3–4), 105–121.
- Strzemżalska, A. (2017). Formal and Informal Nationalism. Jazz Performances. In A. Polese, J. Morris, E. Pawlusz & O. Seliverstova (eds.), Azerbaijan, in The national in everyday life. Identity and nationbuilding in post-socialist spaces. London: Routledge, 17–34.