Horizon Europe

Associate Professor at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw; director of the Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity; she obtained a doctoral degree in the humanities in 2005 at the UW’s Faculty of History and habilitation in ethnology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 2016. She specializes in the ethnohistory, anthropology and linguistics of pre-Hispanic and colonial Mesoamerica, with a special focus on Nahua language and culture, Nahuatl linguistics, and issues of European-indigenous communication in a broad sense. She is also involved in a program for revitalizing the Nahuatl language and works with researchers and activists committed to revitalizing dying languages of ethnic minorities in Poland. Author of several books, co-editor of the monolingual series in Nahuatl Totlahtol [“Our Speech”]. She has received fellowships to conduct research at Dumbarton Oaks, the John Carter Brown Library and Yale University as well as two grants from the European Research Council (Starting Grant 2012, Consolidator Grant 2020), grants from the Foundation for Polish Science (e.g. Team grant 2017-2022), the National Science Centre and the European Commission (Twinning Program, Horizon 2020, 1016). She has been awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2013) and a Burgen Fellowship by Academia Europaea (2013).