The city is my most frequent field of research – a space in which I explore the relationships between memory, landscape, identity, and the everyday practices of residents. I am particularly interested in the dynamics of local spatial transformations, the ways narratives about the past are constructed, and the impact these narratives have on contemporary forms of identification and social action. For me, the most important question is not what landscape is, but rather what landscape does.

I am especially committed to inter- and transdisciplinary initiatives, particularly those developed at the intersection of ethnography and the archaeology of the contemporary past. An important dimension of my work is also applied humanities. I support cross-sector collaboration and engage in projects carried out jointly with cultural institutions, local governments, non-governmental organizations, and local communities. I also develop my anthropological practice beyond the university, leading educational workshops, community-based cultural projects, and commissioned research.

Main Research Interests

• Critical Heritage Studies – heritage as a process; practices of inheritance and heritage-making; strategies of heritage protection, management, and design;
• Landscape Studies – landscape as process and practice; an instrument of cultural power; an agentive force; a mnemotopos; a construct that may become a site of struggle over meanings and the meanings attributed to particular groups;
• Urban Anthropology and Anthropology in the City – urban spaces and urban narratives; the identities of cities and their inhabitants; urban sensory landscapes; my principal field sites are Łódź and the small towns of the Łódź region;
• Community Ethnography – research and action conducted for and with local communities; participatory research methods and the co-production of knowledge;
• Applied Humanities / Applied Anthropology – cultural animation and facilitation, cross-sector collaboration, social projects, and inter- and transdisciplinary initiatives;
• Ethnoarchaeology of the Contemporary Past – research encounters between ethnography and the archaeology of the contemporary world;
• Sensory Anthropology – culturally diverse organizations of the sensorium and sensory ethnography as a research practice.

Selected Collaborative Projects with External Stakeholders
(Coordinator of 11 cooperation agreements between the Faculty and external stakeholders/institutions)

• Since 2026 Karsznice Memory Station: Railway Heritage – Places, People, Practices; project implemented under a cooperation agreement between the Faculty of Philosophy and History, University of Łódź, and the Zduńska Wola City History Museum; coordinator and principal investigator.

• 2025 A Journey to Locality: The Karsznice Housing Estate in Space, Experience and Memory; project implemented under a cooperation agreement between the Faculty of Philosophy and History, University of Łódź, and the Zduńska Wola City History Museum; coordinator and principal investigator.

• 2024 Brudzew – From a Lignite Mine to the Discovery of Local Cultural Heritage; project implemented under a cooperation agreement between the Faculty of Philosophy and History, University of Łódź, the “Wozownia” Municipal Cultural Centre, and the Association for the Development of the Brudzew Municipality; coordinator and principal investigator.

• 2024 Exploring the Unknown Chojny: Community Activists, Researchers and Residents for Cultural Heritage; project implemented as a public task financed by the Łódź Voivodeship Self-Government, under a cooperation agreement between the Faculty of Philosophy and History, University of Łódź, and the Urban Forms Foundation; research team member.

• 2019–2023 Research Station: J. Montwiłł-Mirecki Housing Estate in Łódź; project implemented under cooperation agreements between the Faculty of Philosophy and History, University of Łódź, the Urban Forms Foundation, and the J. Montwiłł-Mirecki Housing Estate Council; coordinator and principal investigator. In 2022, activities were carried out under the National Heritage Institute programme Together for Heritage, funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, through the project (Un)Forgotten: The Józef Montwiłł-Mirecki Housing Estate in Łódź. History Builds Residents’ Identity.

• 2021 Cross-Cultural Examination of Traditions of Ireland and Poland; project carried out in cooperation with the Bardzo Ładnie Foundation NGO and the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life; coordinator and principal investigator.

• 2017–2019 Grembach: Memories and Sources; research conducted by the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Łódź, under a cooperation agreement between the Faculty of Philosophy and History and the Widzew Cultural Centres.

• 2018 The Former Headquarters of the Gestapo and the Provincial Office of Public Security (WUBP) on Anstadta Avenue in Łódź: An Interdisciplinary Study of a Place; interdisciplinary research project conducted under a cooperation agreement between the Łódź Special Economic Zone, the University of Łódź, and the Institute of National Remembrance; research team member.

• 2014–2016 The Vodka Monopoly in Łódź: Place and People; research conducted by the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and the Institute of Archaeology, University of Łódź, under a cooperation agreement between the Faculty of Philosophy and History and Virako Ltd.; research team member.