Konrad Siekierski is a social anthropologist. He earned his master’s degree from the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw and his PhD from the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College London. Key projects he has worked on include: Lost-but-found: Armenian Capital Ani at Contested Crossroads (Free University, Berlin), Home Saints: Between Vernacular Christianity and Armenian National Heritage (Hill Museum and Manuscript Library), Multisensory Religious Imageries in Selected Catholic Shrines in South-Eastern Poland (University of Warsaw), and Armenian Catholics in Armenia and Georgia: History, Memory and Identity (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków).

I specialise in the anthropology of religion, cultural memory, and Armenian studies. My research focuses on pilgrimages, the material dimension of religion, diaspora religiosity, and religious innovations.

Main publications:

2024: “Returning to the Roots: Transgenerational Trauma, Diaspora Community, and the Armenian Pilgrimage to the Lost Homeland” in: L. Kromják, and A. Karamehić-Muratović (eds.) Intergenerational

Trauma in Refugee Communities, London, New York: Routledge, pp. 11-23.

2021: “Religion and Pandemic: Shifts in Interpretations, Popular Lore, and Practices”, Entangled Religions: Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 12 (3): https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/issue/view/212/54

2021: “Scripts, Saints, and Scientists: The Social Life of Gospel Books in an Armenian Museum,” Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies, 4 (1): 93-114.

2021: “Apparitions of the Mother of God in Socialist Poland in the Early Years of the Cold War,” in: P. J. Margry (ed.) Cold War Mary: Ideologies, Politics, Marian Devotional Culture, Leuven: Leuven University Press,

pp. 189-210.

2021. “Armenians in Romania Today: Diasporic Institutions and Interventions”, in: A. Yilmaz (ed.) Critical Approaches to Armenian Identity in the 21st Century: Vulnerability, Resilience, and Transformation, Istanbul

HDV Publications, pp. 114-124.

2020: “Gospel Books as Sacred Objects: The Veneration of Religious Manuscripts in Armenian Christianity,” in: B. Kovács, V. Tachjian (eds.) Inspiration of God: The One-and-a-Half Millenia of the Armenian

Bible and Religious Practice, Leipzig: Leipziger Universtätsverlag, pp. 68-75.

2019. Ormianie katolicy w Armenii i Gruzji: historia, pamięć, tożsamość, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka

2018: “Charismatic Renewal and Miracular Sensitivity at a Catholic Marian Apparition Site in Poland,” Catholics & Cultures: Journal of Global Catholicism, 2 (2): 124-146.

2018: “Faith and Fatigue in the Extreme Way of the Cross in Poland,” Religion, State & Society, 46 (2): 108-122.

2016: “Studying Armenians in Post-Socialist Europe: Problems and Perspectives,” in: K. Siekierski, S. Troebst (eds.) Armenians in Post-Socialist Europe, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar: Bohlau Verlag, pp. 13-25.

2016: “Completing the Story: Armenians in Other Countries of Post-Communist Europe,” in: K. Siekierski, S. Troebst (eds.) Armenians in Post-Socialist Europe, Bohlau Verlag, pp. 205-219.

2014: “‘One Nation, One Faith, One Church’: The Armenian Apostolic Church and the Ethno-Religion in Post-Soviet Armenia,” in: A. Agadjanian (ed.), Armenian Christianity Today: Identity Politics, Popular Practices and Social Functions, Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 9-34.

2014: “The Chronotopes of the Armenian Diaspora in Romania: Religious Feasts and Shrines in the Making of Community,” in: A. Agadjanian (ed.), Armenian Christianity Today: Identity Politics, Popular Practices and Social Functions, Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 197-213.

2014: “A Neopagan Movement in Armenia: The Children of Ara,” in: K. Aitamurto, S. Simpson (eds.), Modern Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Central and Eastern Europe, London, New York: Routledge, pp. 266-282.

2014: Armenia: kultura współczesna w ujęciu antropologicznym, Warszawa: DiG.

2012: “Catholics in the Holy Spirit: The Charismatic Renewal in Poland,” Religion, State & Society, 40 (1): 145-161.