Academic interests

• socio-cultural and religious aspects of artistic patronage in India;
• beliefs and cultural narratives related to supernatural beings in the religious traditions of the Indian subcontinent;
• psychology and intercultural communication.

Selected publications

• 2023, Abundance and Fertility. Representations Associated with Child Protection in the Visual Culture of Ancient India, Kraków.
• 2022, The Abhaya gesture in Indian art: visual means to invoke divine protection, "Art of the Orient", vol. 11, pp. 7-27.
• 2021, Mathura sculpture as a source of knowledge about ancient societies: representations related to fertility and protection of offspring, in: Indian panorama in Wrocław: a volume dedicated to commemorating the 40th anniversary of the death of Ludwik Skurzak and the 75th anniversary of Indological studies in post-war Wrocław, ed. T. Miążek, M. Monkiewicz, M. Pigoniowa, P. Szczurek, Wrocław, pp. 329-348.
• 2021, "Ekam sad viprā bahudha vadanti " - inclusivism - the idea of a reformed Hinduism in the iconographic program of the Birla temples (with M. Kudelska, A. Świerzowska), "Scientific Papers of the Jagiellonian University. Studia Religiologica", vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 109-129.
• 2020, Retraditionalization of Hinduism in Contemporary Indian Temples as Exemplified by New Vishvanath Temple in Varanasi (with M. Kudelska, A. Świerzowska), "Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica", vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 29-45.
• 2020, Goat-headed deities in ancient Indian sculpture, "Art of the Orient", vol. 9, pp. 27-65.
• 2020, The Nationalist Context of Deity Depictions in Birla Temples in India (with D. Kamińska-Jones), in: Emanations to Professor Jerzy Malinowski on His 70th Birthday, ed. A. Kluczewska-Wójcik, J.W. Sienkiewicz, Toruń-Warszawa, pp. 179-185.
• 2019, The temple as a carrier of nationalist content: images of national heroes in Indian sacral architecture from the first half of the 20th century (with D. Kamińska-Jones), in: Different faces of Asia: between East Asia and India, ed. J. Marszałek-Kawa, M. Górnikiewicz, Toruń, pp. 145-161.
• 2019, The temple road towards a Great India: Birla Mandirs as a strategy for reconstructing nation and tradition (with M. Kudelska, D. Kamińska-Jones, A. Świerzowska), Kraków.
• 2017, From a student to a cross-culturally competent manager: cross-cultural workshops for students (with J. Woźniak), "Perspektywy Kultury. Poland and Ukraine in cross- cultural management", no. 2 (17), pp. 81-97.

Research projects

• 2016-2023 - project for the habilitation degree: Abundance and Fertility. Representations Associated with Child Protection in the Visual Culture of Ancient India – completed;
• 2014-2018 - main contractor in the National Science Centre project: Birla mandirs - the contemporary Hindu temple complexes as an example of modernization by going back to tradition, Opus 5, UMO-2013/09/B/HS1/02005 – completed.

Other achievements

• field research in India carried out in 2006-2010, 2012, 2014-2016;
• fieldwork and library research conducted in London (2005, 2013, 2014-2016, 2019) and Vienna (2000, 2003-2004, 2013);
• scholarship of the Fulbright Polish-American Commission (Visiting Student Researcher under the Program of Institute of International Education / Fulbright Junior Advanced Research Program), University of Pennsylvania, United States, in 2008-2009;
• scholarship of De Brzezie Lanckoronski Foundation in London, in 2008.

Hobbies

• quality in the university education;
• culinary traditions of the world.