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Contributors
Ewa Baniowska-Kopacz, ewa_baniowska@vp.pl
PhD, is an ethnologist and assistant professor at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology at the Polish
Academy of Sciences. The field of her interest includes aspects of contemporary culture observed in local
communities in urban and rural areas. Her research questions focus on issues of identity analysed with the
application of the categories of memory and space.
Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska, kamila.baraniecka@gmail.com
PhD, is an anthropologist working at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology at the Polish Academy
of Sciences. She has conducted research on Polish passion plays and now investigates the historical re¬
enactment movement. Her scientific interests focus on the anthropology of religion and on the visual
aspects of culture representation. She has published several articles on Polish religiosity, participation in
Catholic events and passion plays. She is also the author of a book on Easter plays.
Ilze Boldane-Zelenkova, ilze.boldane@gmail.com
Currently working at the Institute of Latvian History at the University of Latvia, Department of
Ethnology, as a researcher. She is interested in humour reflected in interethnic relations. She defended her
PhD (Ethnic Stereotypes of the Latvians at the End of the 20" Century and the Beginning of the 21" Century:
The Influence of Historical Factors) in 2012 and since then her main research interests have been the history
of ethnic groups in Latvia, ethnic stereotypes, social memory and identity.
Dominika Czarnecka, d.czarnecka@hotmail.com
Currently an independent researcher. She is interested in the anthropology of the past and the politics of
memory. She gained her PhD (Monuments of gratitude to the Red Army in Polish People’s Republic and the
Third Republic of Poland) in 2013. Since then she has extended her scope of study into the anthropology
of emotion and the anthropology of space and place.
Christie Davies, j.c.h.davies@reading.ac.uk
A graduate, MA, PhD, of Cambridge University, has an honorary doctorate from University Dunarea
de Jos of Galati and is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Reading. He has published extensively
on ethnic humour, most recently in his book Jokes and Targets, 2011; and also on the rejection of those
defined as outsiders both in leading academic journals and in his book The Strange Death of Moral Britain,
2004. He is currently working on the sociology of stigma and on questions of inclusion and exclusion. As
part of this he is examining anti-Semitism, which he sees as an exceptionally hostile, irrational and extreme
form of ethnic exclusion.
Dagnostaw Demski, d.demski2@gmail.com
PhD, works at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, in Warsaw,
as a Professor. His research interests focus on ethnic and religious issues, stereotypes, shifting borders,
travelling and on visual studies (caricature and photography) in Central and Eastern Europe. He is the
main editor of two books on the visual encounters with otherness (Warsaw 2010, Budapest 2013). He
has also written a book (Warsaw 2007) on Hinduism through the eyes of different local groups in India.
Anssi Halmesvirta, anssi.halmesvirta@jyu.fi
Works at the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyvaskyla (Central Finland)
as a Professor in General History. He is currently also a Jean Monnet Teacher and responsible for EU
coordination and EC project management. His research interests are the intellectual history of nationalism
in Eastern Europe, the history of twentieth-century Hungary and the history of medicine and sport. He has
written twelve monographs, including Intellectual History in Practice (Jyvaskyla University Press, 2012),
Land unter dem Nordlicht: Kulturgeschichte Finnlands (WBG: Darmstadt, 2013) and Kedves Rokonok: