drZuzanna Kruk-Buchowska
Assistant professor
- zuzana@wa.amu.edu.pl
- (+48) 61 829 3770
Collegium Heliodori, room 232
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