Edyta Roszko is a Research Professor and social anthropologist at Chr. Michelsen Institute. In 2011, she received her PhD degree in social anthropology from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology / Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany. Her expertise is grounded in East and Southeast Asia but with a global reach and theoretical ambition to advance our understanding of how societies process globalized economic and climate precarity.
Edyta is a visiting professor at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Copenhagen and a Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe, a pan-European initiative of outstanding young scientists for networking, advocacy, scientific exchange, and science policy. She currently serves as an associate editor for the Maritime Studies journal. She is the author of Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam, co-published by NIAS and the University of Hawai’i Press (Open Access).
In January 2025, Edyta completed her European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant project Transoceanic Fishers: Multiple Mobilities in and out of the South China Sea (TransOcean) at Chr. Michelsen Institute. Her recently awarded ERC Consolidator Grant Global Hydroconnectivities beyond Oceans, Seas, and Rivers combines anthropology, archaeology, and geohydrology and contributes to the wider relevance in the era of climate change. It will examine how freshwater access facilitates human connections and integrates terrestrial and aquatic realms through a comparative historical ethnography of Austronesian speakers' Indigenous knowledge, spreading from Taiwan to Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific and spanning generations and cultures.
