Autorzy/Authors
Marek Butrym PhD is a lecturer in the Department of the Sociology at the University of War- mia and Masuria in Olsztyn. He specializes in the sociology of political voting, sociolo- gy of migration and sociology of exclusion. Correspondence can be sent to mbutrym@
poczta.onet.pl
Dorota Czakon, PhD in Humanities, Sociology specialization (University of Silesia, Poland), a lecturer at The University of Economics and Humanities. Her scientific interests focus on social problems, migration, multiculturalism and conflicts. Correspondence can be sent to: dorota.czakon@gmail.com
Andrzej Dróżdż has made doctorate in bibliology at the Jagiellonian University on the work about Italian libraries in the eighteenth century. He obtained his habilitation at the Uni- versity of Wroclaw with the theory and history books based on research into the social utopias. His specializing is anthropology of books. He practices intercultural studies and conducts research on reading in political systems.
Dorota Dziewanowska holds a post-doctoral degree and is an extraordinary professor of Pedagogical University in Cracow. She specializes in glottodidactics, methodology of te- aching Russian (teaching articulation, intonation, accentuation and grammar) at schools and at Russian studies. She is an author of many articles published in Polish and Russian, handbooks for school and university students and two monographs. Recently she has been engaged in issues of cultural science in teaching Russian.
Wladimir Fadieiev is a candidate of philosophic sciences, head of Department of the NAS H. S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy (Kyiv, Ukraine). His interests are in the areas of philosophy, social theory, ethnicity.
Elizabeth Goode is a PhD candidate and University Medallist in the School of Design, Commu- nication and IT at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her doctoral thesis investigates the cultural identities of adults who were adopted to Australia from overseas countries.
She is particularly interested in the impact of online communication on cultural identity construction, and the use of narrative and auto-ethnography in research. Elizabeth is also an active researcher in the area of online education and widening participation in higher education.
Sylwia Jaskuła is a doctor of pedagogy. Author of many articles about information culture and space, transformations in education, developmental evaluation, information and knowledge society, intercultural and information competences, intercultural coopera- tion. Animator of comparative research on cultural and educational aspects of the mo- dern “conceptual” society. She is a leading expert in the field of the evaluation strategies and training programme in education for social transformation, communication and innovation.
Izabela Korbiel is a PhD candidate in communication science at the Vienna University and member of the „Media Governance and Industries Research Group”. Her research focuses
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on communication during crisis, media governance and media ethics. Her doctoral the- sis is about the media coverage of suicide in times of crisis. She is conducting interviews with media professionals and members of NGOs from South European countries affected by the crisis like Greece, Spain and Bulgaria.
Leszek Korporowicz, works at The Institute of Intercultural Studies in Jagiellonian Univer- sity in Krakow, is a doctor in cultural sociology specializing in the issues of intercultural communication, cultural heritage and identity, cultural rights, theory of culture, inter- cultural evaluation. At the moment his work focuses on intercultural space, sociology of communication, hybrid reality, cultural personality development and democratic eva- luation. He is an animator of the Jagiellonian Cultural Studies, author many articles in a field of cultural sociology and social methodology of evaluation studies.
Małgorzata Krywult-Albańska, assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy and So- ciology at the Pedagogical University of Cracow. Scholarly interests include population studies, environmental studies, methods of social research.
María Paula Malinowski Rubio, assistant professor of the Department of Philosophy & So- ciology, Pedagogical University of Cracow. Psychologist and sociologist (Master degree in psychology awarded by Universidad de Barcelona, doctorate and habilitation in soci- ology awarded by the Jagiellonian University), specializes primarily in migrations, inter- cultural relations, intercultural communication and methodology of social research, has a keen interest in organizational culture and sociology of religion.
Andrzej Nikitorowicz is a doctor in sociology also working as the researcher in projects car- ried out as part of operational programmes of the European Union. Senior lecturer in PWSZ in Suwałki. Specializing in the issues of ethnicity, nationalism, multiculturalism, sociology of the borderland and changes of the identity. Author of many scientific papers and monograph concerning reconstructing and the revitalization of national and ethnic groups, the nationalism and national stereotypes.
Tomasz Paklepa, is a lecturer in sociology in Insitute Sociology at the Maria Curie – Skłodow- ska Unversity of Lublin. He specializes in methods of social research. His academic inte- rests focus on issues of social problems and aspiration of polish youth, social exclusion, social effects of modern technology. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Maria Curie – Skłodowska Unversity of Lublin.
Andrzej Porębski, born 1958 in Krakow, Poland, is a doctor of sociology, assistant professor in Institute of Multicultural Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, specializing in the issues of ethnicity, nationalism, multiculturalism (especially in Switzerland), ethnic minorities in Western Europe and methodology of social sciences.
Piotr Stawiński, associate professor, Department of Philosophy & Sociology, Pedagogical University of Cracow. He specializes in sociology of religion and comparative religion.
Scientific achievements include 6 books, among others: Ahmadiyya. Islam Reformed, Cze- stochowa 1994 (in Polish); Demonism and Witchcraft in Social Life of American Puritans During the Colonial Period, Czestochowa 1997 (in Polish); Sects Schism and Heresies in Russia. Dictionary, Krakow 2000 (in Polish); God’s Experiment. The Puritans in the Seven- teenth-Century America, Lublin 2012 (in Polish). Contact: Bielany@autograf.pl
Aleksandra Winiarska holds a PhD in sociology and a degree in cross-cultural relations. She works at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw. Her research in- terests include communication and conflict resolution, cross-cultural contact and issues of immigrant integration. She is a mediator at the Center for Dispute and Conflict Reso- lution, at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw.
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Oleg Yarosh is a PhD in philosophical anthropology and head of the Oriental Philosophy De- partment at the Institute of Philosophy of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. His research interests include Anthropology of Religion, Islamic Studies and Comparative Philosophy. At the presence he on the problem of how religious authority is performed among the Muslim converts in Sufi communities in the West. He has published a signifi- cant number of articles and book chapters in Ukraine, Poland, Russia, and Czech Republic.
