Monika Szewczyk
Monika Szewczyk is a PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at Jagiellonian University, where she earned her Master’s degree. She is an associate of the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw and currently serves as a research assistant in the project “Unequal citizenship and transnational mobilisation of Polish, Czech, and Ukrainian Roma in the face of war in Ukraine”. Additionally, she is a doctoral researcher in the Polish National Science Centre’s research project titled “Transnational life of Polish Roma – migration, family, and ethnic borders in a changing European Union”, conducted at the CMR UW.
Within the framework of the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” program of Jagiellonian University, she is conducting the project “Dynamics of migration of the Carpathian Roma to the Western and Northern Lands: A Pilot Study”. Monika has implemented numerous national and international projects on Roma issues and is a member of the Polish Oral History Association (POHA).
Her research interests encompass Roma migration, issues of national and ethnic minorities, and the role of oral history in identity politics. Monika is dedicated to preserving Roma culture, traditions, and oral transmissions, including the Romani language as a carrier of the intangible cultural heritage of the Roma.
Within the ROCIT project she is a doctoral researcher, where she is particularly interested in potential of oral history to document the experiences of forced migration among Ukrainian Roma and Roma mobilisation in Poland.
Relevant publications:
- Monika Szewcztk, “What people remember, but history does not see. Resettlement of Carpathian Roma during Operation Vistula”
- Monika Szewczyk, “Relacje sąsiedzkie Romów i Łemków w autobiografii Michała Oleśniewicza”
- Monika Szewczyk, “Filmy historii mówionej w działaniach organizacji pozarządowych – problemy etyczne”
- Monika Szewczyk, “O Romach w Nowej Hucie słów kilka”
- Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz, Kamila Fiałkowska, Monika Szewczyk, National and local mobilisation of Roma and non-Roma organisations and activists in Poland supporting Ukrainian Roma forced migrants in the face of the war in Ukraine
- Kamila Fiałkowska, Michał P. Garapich, Ignacy Jóźwiak, Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz, Sonia Styrkacz, Monika Szewczyk, Anti-paćiw of Gadje academia, Ficowski’s shadow and what to do about it – exercises in reciprocal ethnography and decolonizing the Polish Romani studies
- Monika Szewczyk, Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz, Ignacy Jóźwiak, The Internet and Transnational Polish Roma Families in a Time of Pandemic
- Kamila Fiałkowska, Michał P. Garapich, Ignacy Jóźwiak, Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz, Sonia Styrkacz, Monika Szewczyk, Romani Chronicles Of Covid-19. Testimonies Of Harm And Resilience