drZuzanna Kruk-Buchowska

Zuzanna Kruk-Buchowska
Assistant professor

Websites / Profiles

Degrees:

  • B.A. in English, Poznań, 2006
  • M.A. in English, Poznań, 2008
  • Ph.D. in English, Poznań (summa cum laude), 2013

Research interests:

  • Native American Studies
  • Indigenous Food Sovereignty
  • Indigenous Australian Studies
  • Indigenous Education
  • Multiculturalism
  • Anthropology of sport
  • Cultural Anthropology

Teaching experience:

  • Cultural studies of English-speaking countries (UK, USA, Canada)
  • Theories of Culture Change
  • Australia and New Zealand as multicultural societies
  • Contemporary Issues in Native American Studies
  • Selected issues in ethics and religious studies
  • TEFL at university level (phonetics, speaking, academic writing)

Other professional experience

  • Coordinator of ‘Australia and New Zealand’ MA Program
  • Head of the Committee of the 2019 John Barret Award for Australian Studies (for the best-written article published by the Journal of Australian Studies)
  • Co-organizer of panel: 'Sport, Indigeneity and Globalization,' International Union of Anthropological and Ethnologocal Sciences (IUAES) 2019 Inter-Congress, Poznań, August 2019

Professional organizations:

  • Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
  • European Association for Studies of Australia
  • International Australian Studies Association: Member of the Executive Board since 2016
  • Polish Association for the Study of Australia and New Zealand: Founding Member, Secretary, 2019-
  • International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
  • Polish Association for American Studies

Scholarships/Research Visits

  • Visiting Fellow, International Forum for US Studies, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2016
  • "Unikatowy Absolwent - Możliwości", Visiting Fellow, National Centre for Indigenous Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Sep.-Oct. 2015
  • TSM Erasmus, Ankara University, September 2014
  • TSM Erasmus, "Sapienza" University of Rome, March 2014
  • European Society for the Study of English 2011 Bursary, Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, KS, Fall 2011
  • Visiting scholar, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Fall 2011
  • PCA/ACA Madonna Marsden International Travel Grant 2011
  • PCA/ACA Madonna Marsden International Travel Grant 2010
  • Socrates Erasmus, Universita degli studi di Trieste, Trieste, Spring 2007
  • Erasmus Intensive Language Course, Universita per Stranieri di Siena, Siena, Jan. 2007

Grants

  • Norms and Values in the European Migration and Refugee Crises, NovaMigra, Horizon 2020, no. 770330 (participant/copy editor), 2019
  • Podprojekt Ligi Przedmiotowe "Liga Angielska" w projekcie Cyfrowa Szkoła Wielkopolsk@2020 Samorządu Województwa Wielkopolskiego (participant), 2019

Guest lectures

  • Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, December 2016
  • Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College, London, October 2017
  • I LO im. Rodu Leszczyńskich w Lesznie, March 2018

Editorial

  • Guest Editor (with Jacek Fabiszak and Tomasz Skirecki), Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 52/4, 2017 (special issue on Australian and New Zealand studies)
  • Guest Editor (with Elżbieta Wilczyńska), Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 53/s1, 2018 (special issue on Native American and Indigenous Studies)
  • Guest Editor (with Jenny L. Davis), Review of International American Studies 12/1, 2019 (special issue on Indigenous social movements in the Americas)

Papers read at conferences and congresses

  • The National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Annual Conference, New Orleans, April 2009
  • Kultura Popularna i Społeczne Konstruowanie Tożsamości, Gniezno, September 2009
  • The National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Annual Conference, St. Louis, April 2010
  • 19th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Kalisz, May 2010
  • Kultura Popularna i Społeczne Konstruowanie Tożsamości, Gniezno, September 2010
  • The National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Annual Conference, San Antonio, April 2011
  • Intercultural Dialogue, Łódź, May 2011
  • American Indian Workshop, University of Leiden, May 2014
  • American Indian Workshop, Goethe University, Frankfurt, March 2015
  • Europe and Down Under: Bridging Gaps and Fostering Connections, Poznan, July, 2016
  • Polish Association for American Studies, Warsaw, October 2016
  • Aboriginal North America and Europe: Strengthening Connections, Poznan, November, 2016
  • International Association for Australian Studies, Fremantle, December 2016
  • Native American Indigenous Studies Association, Vancouver, June 2017
  • Redefining Australia and New Zealand: Historical Heritage and Contemporary Perspectives in Language, Culture and Literature, Opole, November 2017
  • American Indian Workshop, Ghent, April 2018
  • American Indian Workshop, Poznań, April 2019
  • International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Inter-Congress, Poznań, August 2019
  • Redefining Australia and New Zealand: Changes, Innovations, Reversals, Warsaw, September 2019
  • American Indian Workshop, Munich, November 2020

Organizer of international conferences

  • Europe and Down Under: Bridging Gaps and Fostering Connections, Poznań, July 2016 (Co-organizer)
  • Aboriginal North America and Europe: Strengthening Connections, Poznań, November 2016 (Co-organizer)
  • Redefining Australia and New Zealand: Historical Heritage and Contemporary Perspectives in Language, Culture and Literature, Opole, November 2017 (Co-organizer)
  • 40th American Indian Workshop "Indigenous Economies: Sustenance, Sustainability, Sovereignty," Poznań, April 2019 (Co-organizer)
  • 28th PASE Conference "Diversity is inclusive: Cultural, literary and linguistic mosaic," Poznań, June 2019 (Secretary)

Honours

  • Polish Prime Minister's Award for Outstanding PhD dissertation, August, 2014
  • AMU Rector's Group Award (1st degree) for the authors of the publication Kultura Popularna: Konteksty teoretyczne i społeczno-kulturowe (Eng. Popular Culture: Theoretical and socio-cultural contexts), 2011