2021 PhD, Specialization: Studies on Cultures and Religions
Faculty of Culture and Arts, University of Warsaw (Poland)
Supervisors: Prof. Anna Wieczorkiewicz, Dr Renata Hryciuk
Reviewers: Prof. Natalia Bloch, Dr Melissa Blanco Borelli
Dissertation: Embodied souvenirs. Heritage tourism, entrepreneurship, and the cultural politics of dance in contemporary Havana (Cuba), defended with honours.

2015 Master, Specialization: Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of History, University of Warsaw (Poland)
Thesis: Performing Afro-Cuban heritage. Tradition and Transformation in the Rumba

Research projects

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Registration number: 2019/32/T/HS3/00379

Funding body: National Science Centre, Call: ETIUDA-7

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Registration number:

2021/40/C/HS3/00086

Funding body: National Science Centre, Call: SONATINA-5

Amount: 683 793 PLN

Institution:

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan

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Research stays:

2024 – 2026, Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews (UK)

2024, Visiting Researcher, German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Berlin (Germany)

2019 – 2020, Visiting Researcher, Ibero-American Institute in Berlin (Germany)

Awards

2024-2027 Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scientists, Ministry of Science and Higher Education

2020 Best Paper Award Foro Europa-Cuba: Being / becoming professional: emerging work practices and the politics of cultural heritage in light of legislative change in Cuba. (An ethnographic approach)

2015 Main Prize for best MA Thesis, Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Warsaw 

Publications

Ana, R. & Lubiński, O., The demise of the Revolution? Crisis, continuity and change in contemporary Cuba (2026), History and Anthropology, 37(4), 639-657, https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2026.2670656

Ana, R., Modes of embodiment: exercising agency through Afro-Cuban dance (2025), Identities, 33(4), 557-574, https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2025.2463767

Ana, R. Antropolożka tańczy w Hawanie. Ciało i seksualność w etnograficznych badaniach terenowych (2025), w: Renata Hryciuk, Agnieszka Kościańska: Gender. Perspektywa antropologiczna - kontynuacje. WUW, 714-736 .

Ana, R., Cuban-style Salsa: Intersections of Tourism-led Entrepreneurship and Dancing Personal Development (2024), Dance Research Journal, 56(1), 5-19, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0149767724000019

Ana, R., Salsa and the (Eternal) City. Rethinking the pleasure periphery (2023), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(20), 5193-5209, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2023.2245154

Ana, R., Common grounds. Life and ethnography on the Möbius strip (2023), Ethnologia Europaea, 53(1), https://doi.org/10.16995/ee.9063

Ana, R., Watch and do what I do: ethnographic notes from the online salsa class (2022), Leisure Studies, 42(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2022.2138510

Ana, R., ‘Soy Cubano, soy popular’: Professional and personal trajectories of Cuban dancers in transnational perspective ( 2022 ), Ethnologie Francaise, 52, 315-325, https://doi.org/10.3917/ethn.222.0315

Ana, R. Bailarín, bailador, callejero, inflador: ser/volverse profesional en la escena de baile cubana. Un enfoque etnográfico (2019), in: Políticas sociales y reforma institucional en la Cuba pos-COVID (ed. B. Hoffmann), 1, 224-246, Barbara Budrich Verlag

Ana, R. & Lubiński, O., Cuban private entrepreneurship – from periphery to key sector of the economy in tourism oriented market socialism ( 2019 ), Regional Science Policy and Practice, 11(3), 467-477, https://doi.org/10.1111/rsp3.12154

Ana, R. Body Image and the Ambivalence of Sugar as Heritage Among Cuban Dancers (2019), Revista del CESLA. International Latin American Studies Review, 24, 53-73.

Ana, R., Dance, Tourism and Idea(l)s of Cubanness ( 2018 ), in: The Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and Tourism (ed. C. Lundberg and V. Ziakas). Oxford, New York: Routledge, 127-137.

Ana, R. ‘A lo cubano’. Utowarowienie tańca i reprezentacje kubańskości w kontekście turystyki kulturowej (2018), LUD, 102, 445-470.

Ana, R., Rumba: Heritage, Tourism and the ‘Authentic’ Afro-Cuban Experience ( 2017 ), in: Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance. Anthropologies of Sound and Movement, (ed. E. Chrysagis and P. Karampampas). Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 163-186.