Tokarska-Bakir, Joanna

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[V] School of Social Science

Field of Study: Cultural and Historical Anthropology

Research Description: Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences; Since 2005 she directs the Etnographic Archive team collecting oral history on Shoah in Polish hinterlands; she specialises in the anthropology of blood libel and anti-Jewish violence; holder of the Marie Curie Gerda Henkel Fellowship (2013-2015) at IAS; she is currently working on a project on post-war pogroms in Eastern Europe.

Home Institution: Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland