Academic interests
- war, peace and conflict studies,
- cultural mobilization and wartime cultural policy,
- culture and history of Russia,
- contemporary Ukrainian culture and cinema,
- conflicts in the post-Soviet space.
Selected publications
- 2023, The development of Ukrainian cultural policy in the context of Russian hybrid aggression against Ukraine, International Journal of Cultural Policy, DOI: 10.1080/10286632.2023.2187053
- 2023, War and ‘museum front’ in a digital era: The Ukrainian War Museum during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Media, War & Conflict. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506352231175077
- 2023, The Development of National Cinema in Post-Maidan Ukraine. East European Politics and Societies, 37(2), 435-454. https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254221101907
- 2021, The Role of Museums in Creating National Community in Wartime Ukraine. Nationalities Papers, 49(6), 1028-1044.
- 2021, The Role of the Cultural Context in the Russian Military Revolution. Quaestio Rossica, 9(1), 218–235.
- 2019, Proces społecznej konstrukcji bohatera w warunkach trwającego konfliktu — analiza na przykładzie heroizacji uczestników ukraińskiej Rewolucji Godności i wojny w Donbasie. Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 63(2), 253-274.
- 2017, Understanding the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine: The Role of Cultural Context, Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne, (4), 23-38.
- 2016, Wojna a kultura. Nowożytna rewolucja militarna w Europie Zachodniej i Rosji, Kraków: WUJ.
- 2013, Globalizacja a nowe wojny – perspektywa kulturowa, Kultura - Historia -Globalizacja, 13.
- 2011, Kulturowy wymiar zjawiska wojny – zakres badań i doniosłość, Kultura i Historia, 22.
Research projects
- Challenges and opportunities for EU heritage diplomacy in Ukraine (HER-UKR) - leader of the national module in the project conducted from 2023 to 2026 under Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Policy Debate;
- Estetyczne i etyczne wyzwania w tworzeniu wystaw muzealnych o trwającym konflikcie – a research project conducted from 2021 to 2022 under the POB Heritage mini-grant with funding from the Strategic Program Excellence Initiative at the Jagiellonian University.
- The Cultural Context of the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine – granted by the National Science Centre in Poland (Miniatura 1), 2017-2018;
- Narratives and Commemorations of the Revolution of Dignity and the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine in the Public Space of Ukrainian Cities (2017/2018; 2018/2019);
- The Cultural Strategies of War and Reconciliation: Analysis on the Example of the Civil War in the Republic of Tajikistan (1992-1997) – granted by the National Science Centre in Poland (Sonata 5), co-investigator, 2014-2016.
Other achievements
- PROM Programme (Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange) – short-time sholarschip, University of Sarajevo, Bosna and Hercegovina (September 2022).
- Visiting scholar in the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine (August 2019).
- Visiting scholar in the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, USA (April – May 2018).
- Staff Mobility Programme Erasmus+ Mobility for Teaching (teaching classes at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2017).
- Library research and academic consultation – Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia (June 2013); Centre of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus, The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (February 2017); Centre for the Study of War, Propaganda and Society, University of Kent, Canterbury (February 2017); Center for Transcultural Asian Studies (CETRAS), Center for Security and Society, University of Freiburg, Freiburg (March 2017); Imperial War Museum, London (April 2022).