Academic interests

• the comparative studies of religious systems and cultures in a broad sense, including contemporary religious phenomena, with an emphasis on rituals and ceremonies; special interest in the death in various cultures;
• Celtic culture, including Celtic Christianity;
• sociolinguistics;
• nonverbal communication.

Selected publications

• 2022, Nonverbal Communication in Rituals on Irish Pilgrimage Routes, „Religions”, vol. 13 (12), 1219.
• 2021, Irlandzka architektura jako wyraz wartości kulturowych [Irish Architecture as an Expression of Cultural Values], „Academic Journal of Modern Philology”, vol. 14, pp. 153–172.
• 2020, “Introduction: Feast as a Mirror of Social and Cultural Changes” [in:] Feast as a Mirror of Social and Cultural Changes, eds. Bożena Gierek, Wojciech Kosior, San Diego, CA: Æ Academic Publishing, pp. 1–16.
• 2020, “Lajkonik (Hobby Horse) as Theatrum of the Period of Corpus Christi in Kraków (Poland)” [in:] Feast as a Mirror of Social and Cultural Changes, eds. Bożena Gierek, Wojciech Kosior, San Diego, CA: Æ Academic Publishing, pp. 116–136.
• 2018, Język irlandzki jako element tożsamości kulturowej Irlandczyków w Republice Irlandii w XX i XXI wieku [The Irish language as an element of cultural identity of Irish people in the Republic of Ireland in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries], Kraków.
• 2014, “Interference of Politics in Celebrating Dożynki – the Festival of Harvest in Poland in 1950s” [in:] Politics, Feasts, Festivals, eds. Gábor Barna, István Povedák, Szeged: Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Szeged, pp. 171–192.
• 2013, Religie Celtów [Religions of the Celts], Kraków.
• 2011, “Celebrating Christmas in contemporary Poland” [in:] The Ritual Year 6. The Inner and the Outer, eds. Mare Kõive, Tartu: ELM Department of Folkloristics, EKM Teaduskirjastus/ ELM Scholarly Press, pp. 219–248.
• 2011, “Das Motiv des Gottesschutzes in «St. Patrick’s Breastplate» im Vergleich zu ähnlichen Motiven in jüdisch-christlichen, gnostischen und finnischen Traditionen, "Anthropos", no 106 (2), pp. 611–617.
• 2011, “«Celtic Spirituality» in Contemporary Ireland” [in:] Ireland’s New Religious Movements, eds. Olivia Cosgrove, Laurence Cox, Carmen Kuhling and Peter Mulholland, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 300–316.

Research projects

• 2009-2010 – participated in the project The Thin End of the Wedge, coordinated from Northern Ireland; the aim of the project was to challenge racism and sectarianism at its roots in Northern Ireland;
• 1996 – participated in the project Inventory of the religious heritage on the ‘holy' islands off the Irish coast and development of a care-taking strategy for the monuments during the International European Heritage Campus on Clare Island in Ireland, organised by the European Union General Directorate of Cultural Affairs.

Other achievements

• TEMPUS scholarship holder (University College Cork in Ireland, University College Dublin in Ireland, National University of Ireland, Galway);
• DAAD scholarship holder (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg in Germany);
• scholarship holder in the inter-university exchange Programme (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Erlangen in Germany).
• Participated in numerous national and international conferences;
• Participated in many international courses and workshops in Germany, Ireland and Latvia.