2000, MA, University of Warsaw, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, thesis: Sectofobia: Conflicts around New Religious Movements.

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1 Agnieszka Koscianska Curriculum vitae Education: 2007, PhD, University of Warsaw, Faculty of History, Institute Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, dissertations title: Charismatic Women. Conversion and the Reconstruction of Gender Order. The Case of a New Religious Movement, the Brahma Kumaris. 2000, MA, University of Warsaw, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, thesis: Sectofobia: Conflicts around New Religious Movements. Professional Experience: From October 1, 2008 to present: assistant professor, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw (teaching and research position). October 1, 2007 September 30, 2008: instructor, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw (teaching and research position). December 1, 2002 June 30, 2007: PhD student, Faculty of History, University of Warsaw (research, preparation of dissertation, teaching, student adviser). Grants, Fellowships and Awards: August 2010 September Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship (within Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union); project title: Biomedicalizing Gender. The Globalization of Sexual Science and the Redefinition of Gender Roles in Poland; hosts: Harvard University and University of Warsaw. October 2009 September Grant supporting teaching and research activity from the University of Warsaw, Modern University Programme (co-funded by Human Capital Programme, EU Funds). May Grant from the Erasmus Programme Teaching Staff Mobility, visiting lecturer. Europa- Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Chair of Comparative Central European Studies. February Grant from the Erasmus Programme Teaching Staff Mobility, visiting lecturer. Saxo Institute, Department of European Ethnology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. September 2006 December The Kosciuszko Foundation fellowship, visiting scholar. The New School for Social Research, New York. April 2005 June Danish Governmental Scholarship, visiting scholar. Saxo Institute. Department of European Ethnology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Summer School: Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute, Krakow July Organized by Transregional Centre of Democratic Studies, New School for Social Research, New York (grants covering tuition, room and board from the Network of East-West Women and the TCDS). January 1999 June Exchange student, the Tempus Programme. The Department of Archaeology and Ethnology and the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Award of the Ecumenical Foundation of Tolerance for the MA thesis. 1

2 Grants supporting publications from: the Rector of the University of Warsaw; Polish Research Council; the Network of East-West Women; Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, the University of Warsaw. Research: Sexual science in Poland. Pilot ethnographic fieldwork among sexologists, sexual educations and therapist Research for doctoral dissertation. Ethnographic fieldwork among Polish members of a new religious movement, the Brahma Kumaris , , Managing student research projects on, respectively, Female Religious Leadership in the Polish countryside (fieldwork in the countryside in North and East Poland and in Warsaw), Religion and Gender (fieldwork in the countryside in South Poland), Family, Gender and Sexuality (fieldwork in Warsaw) Research (in-depth interviews and surveys) within the grant New Religious Movements in Poland by the Polish Research Committee. Director of the grant: Prof. Maria Libiszowska- Zoltkowska Fieldwork for MA thesis, in-depth interviews and participant observation among members of an anti-cult movement in Warsaw Student training fieldwork on concepts of otherness and oddity in the countryside of south Poland, 8 weeks in the field. Memberships and Affiliations: From January 2009 to present: collaboration with the Instytut Badan Seksualnych, Opole, Poland (Institute of Sexual Research). From 2006 to present: member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. From 2003 to present: expert at the Human Rights without Frontiers, Brussels, Belgium. From 2002 to present: member of the Stowarzyszenie Etnografow i Antropologow Kultury Pasaz Antropologiczny, Warsaw, Poland (Association of Ethnographers and Cultural Anthropologists Anthropological Passage ). Selected service to journals: From July 2009 to present: Zeszyty Etnograficzne (Ethnographic Notebooks, a quarterly of the State Ethnographic Museum, Warsaw), consulting editor. March 2002 March 2009: (op.cit.,) Maszyna interpretacyjna (Polish socio-cultural popular anthropological journal), member of the editorial board : Plotki Rumours form around the block (Central-European youth journal), member of the editorial board. Edited special issues: Focaal. European Journal of Anthropology, no. 53, 2009, special section: The East speaks back: Gender and sexuality in postsocialist Europe, co-edited with Jill Owczarzak. 2

3 (op.cit.) Maszyna Interpretacyjna, special issues: no. 4/2008: Medical Anthropology (co-edited with Tomasz Rakowski). no. 1/2008: Masculinity (co-edited with Renata Hryciuk, Malgorzata Rajtar). no. 3-4/2006: Ideology (co edited with Malgorzata Rajtar). Selected teaching: Introduction to Ethnology (in Polish, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw [IEiAK UW]). Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality (in Polish, IEiAK UW); New Religious Movements (in Polish, IEiAK UW). Cultural Process in Europe (in English, University of Copenhagen, within the Erasmus Programme, co-taught with Prof. Lene Otto) Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Poland and Germany (in English, within the Erasmus Programme, co-taught with Dr. Anika Keinz, IEiAK UW) Gender in Socialist and Postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe (in English, IEiAK UW) Contemporary Theories in Social Sciences and Humanities (in Polish, co-taught with Dr. Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz, IEiAK UW) Body, Gender, Sexuality (co-taught with Dr. Tomasz Wiślicz, for PhD students, Faculty of History, University of Warsaw). Publications: Book: 2009 Potega ciszy. Konwersja a rekonstrukcja porzadku plci na przykladzie nowego ruchu religijnego Brahma Kumaris (The Power of Silence. Gender and Religious Conversion. The Case of a New Religious Movement, the Brahma Kumaris, in Poland), Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego (University of Warsaw Press). Edited volumes: 2007 Gender. Perspektywa antropologiczna (Gender. An Anthropological Perspective), two volumes: - vol. 1 Organizacja spoleczna (Social Organization); - vol. 2 Kobiecosc, meskosc seksualnosc (Femininity, Masculinity, and Sexuality). Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego (University of Warsaw Press), co-edited with Renata Ewa Hryciuk Kobiety i religie (Women and Religions), Krakow: Zaklad Wydawniczy Nomos, co-edited with Katarzyna Leszczynska. Articles in peer-reviewed journals: 2010 Les groupes de femmes non féministes. Le mouvement Brahma Kumaris. Ethnologie Française, vol. 40, no. 2, pp The power of silence: Spirituality and women s agency beyond the Catholic Church in Poland. Focaal European Journal of Anthropology, no. 53, pp Potega ciszy z antropologicznych studiow nad genderowym wymiarem alternatywnej duchowosci (The power of silence. Excerpts from anthropological studies on the gender dimension of alternative spirituality). Kultura i Społeczenstwo, 2008, no. 3, pp Reinterprétation du genre: Brahma Kumaris en Pologne. Cahiers De Publications Doctorales, vol. 7, no. Mai, pp

4 2004 Plec, religia, polityka o mojej antropologii (Gender, religion and politics about my anthropology, paper presented within the project Ethnology in Poland Next Generation at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland). Lud, vol. LXXXVIII, pp Poles, Catholics and the Brahmins. New Religious Movements in the Transitional Society. Nord Nytt, no. 88, pp Kolo przemocy symbolicznej o konfliktach wokół nowych ruchów religijnych (A circle of symbolic violence on conflicts around new religious movements). Przeglad Religioznawczy (Religious Studies Review), no. 1/199, pp Sekta i antysekta (A sect and an anti-sect). Przeglad Religioznawczy (Religious Studies Review), no. 4/198, 2000, pp Book chapters: 2010 Kulturowe konteksty naukowej wiedzy o seksualnosci (Cultural contexts of scientific knowledge of sexuality). In Antropolog wobec wspołczesnosci. Tom w darze Profesor Annie Zadrozynskiej, eds. Anna Malewska-Szalygin, Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz, Instytut Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej UW, Warszawa On Celibate Marriages: Conversion to the Brahma Kumaris in Poland. In On the Margins of Religion, eds. Pine Frances and Joao de Pina-Cabral. Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp Charyzmatyczne liderki. Przywodztwo duchowe w ruchu Brahma Kumaris (Charismatic female leaders. Spiritual leadership among the Brahma Kumaris). In Oblicza religii i religijnosci, eds. I. Borowik, J. Doktor, M. Libiszowska-Zoltkowska. Krakow: Zaklad Wydawniczy Nomos, pp Mohair Berets: The Development of Fundamentalism Within the Catholic in Poland. In The Sociology of Religion. A Substantive and Transdisciplinary Approach, George Lundskow. Los Angeles: Pine Forge Press (A Sage Publications Company), pp Healing Practices Among Members of Alternative Spiritual Communities in Poland. In Verkörperungen. Embodiment, eds. Christina Lammer, Kim Sawchuk, Cathrin Pichler. Vienna: Löcker, pp Wstep (Introduction). In Gender. Perspektywa antropologiczna (Gender. An Anthropological Perspective), vol. 1, eds. R.E. Hryciuk and A. Koscianska. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, pp. 7-17, co-authored with R.E. Hryciuk Wstep (Introduction). In Gender. Perspektywa antropologiczna (Gender. An Anthropological Perspective), vol. 2, eds. R.E. Hryciuk and A. Koscianska. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, pp. 5-10, co-authored with Renata E. Hryciuk Brahma Kumaris: miedzy celibatem a macierzynstwem (The Brahma Kumaris: Between celibacy and motherhood). In Kobiety i religie (Women and Religions), eds. K. Leszczyńska i A. Koscianska. Krakow: Zakład Wydawniczy Nomos, pp Slowo wstepne (Introduction). In Kobiety i religie, eds. K. Leszczynska i A. Koscianska. Krakow: Zakład Wydawniczy Nomos, pp. 7-12, co-authored with Katarzyna Leszczynska Medycyna alternatywna praktyki lecznicze i ich znaczenie społeczne (Alternative healing. Practices and social meaning). In Horyzonty antropologii, eds. A. Zadrozyńska, J. Wasilewski. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo DiG, pp

5 2005 Legion of Small Knights: Informal Movement within the Polish Roman Catholic Church. In Religious Innovations in a Global Age, Essays on of the Construction of Spirituality, ed. George N. Lundskow. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, pp Anti-cult Movements and Governmental Report on Sects and Cults : the Case of Poland. In Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe, ed. James T. Richardson. New York, London: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, pp The Shakti Power. The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University: an Idea of Female Leadership. In Between Tradition and Postmodernity. Polish Ethnography at the Turn of the Millenium, eds. Lech Mroz and Zofia Sokolewicz. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo DiG, 2003, pp Selected other publications: 2010 Pluralizm religijny a rownosc plci (Religious pluralism and gender equality), in Kosciol, panstwo, polityka plci (The Church, the state, politics of gender), ed. Adam Ostolski, Przedstawicielstwo Fundacji im. Heinricha Bölla w Polsce, Warszawa (Heinrich Böll Foundation, Warsaw, Poland) Nie manipulowac matką (Do not manipulate the mother), Lidia Ostalowska s interwiew with Agnieszka Koscianska and Renata Hryciuk. Gazeta Wyborcza, Wysokie Obcasy, 19 Jan 2008, pp Experiencing Diversity and Mutuality. Konferencja Europejskiego Stowarzyszenia Antropologów Społecznych (EASA), Lublana, sierpnia 2008 (European Association of Social Anthropologists conference, report). Lud, vol. 92 pp (with Bozena Bielenin, Agnieszka Chwieduk, Anna Niedzwiedz, Helena Patzer, Danuta Penkala-Gawecka, Agnieszka Pozniak) Warszawa wielowyznaniowa (Warsaw of many faiths). (op.cit.) Maszyna Interpretacyjna (Polish socio-cultural popular anthropological journal), no. 3(40), pp 'Europe and the World'. Konferencja Europejskiego Stowarzyszenia Antropologow Społecznych (EASA), Bristol, września 2006 (European Association of Social Anthropologists conference, report). Lud, vol. XCI pp , with Helena Patzer Dzialanie cisza (Doing things with silence). (op.cit.) Maszyna Interpretacyjna, no. 3(36), pp Strach po polsku. Rozmowa z Janem Tomaszem Grossem (Fear in Polish. An interview with Jan Tomasz Gross). (op.cit.) Maszyna Interpretacyjna, no. 1(34) pp Wizionerki (Female Visionaries), Lidia Ostalowska s interwiew with Agnieszka Koscianska. Gazeta Wyborcza, Wysokie Obcasy 23 Dec 2006, pp Dlaczego Grecy? wywiad z prof. Michaelem Herzfeldem (Why the Greek? An interview with Prof. Michael Herzfeld). (op.cit.) Maszyna Interpretacyjna, no. 1, pp What Does It Mean to Be a Feminist in Poland? Impressions from the Thirteenth Annual Democracy and Diversity Summer Institute in Krakow. Transregional Center For Democratic Studies Bulletin, June, p Ku odpowiedzialnosci. Etnologia w Polsce: tradycje i wyzwania (Towards responsibility. Ethnology in Poland: traditions and challenges). (op.cit.,) Maszyna Interpretacyjna, no. 6-7 (19-20), pp Magia bezcielesnosci (Magic of Incorporeally), Ha!art, no. 1, pp

6 2003 Bog i kobieta. O religijnym feminizmie (God and a woman. On religious based feminism), (op.cit.,) Maszyna interpretacyjna, no. 2, p. 5. Selected translations: Translations from English into Polish of anthropological papers by Carole Vance, Signe Howell, Marit Melhuus, Raymond Firth; co-translated with Michal Petryk papers by: Henrietta Moore, Harriet Whitehead, Judith Okley, Frances Pine, A.R. Radcliffe-Brown (The Andaman Islanders). Selected conference papers: Researching Gender, Researching Europe (together with Anika Keinz). Anthropology of Europe: what is it and how should it be practiced? European Association of Social Anthropologists, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Poznan, Poland, October, Distrust. Negotiating women s agency within a fundamentalist Catholic milieu in Poland. Biennial Conference, European Association of Social Anthropologists: Experiencing Diversity and Mutuality, Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 2008 Power of silence alternative spirituality and women's identities in Poland. Biennial Conference, European Association of Social Anthropologist: Europe and the World, Bristol, UK, September Building a new paradise. The Brahma Kumaris movement in postsocialist Poland. The Fifth Nordic Conference on the Anthropology of Post-Socialism, Uncertainty and Freedom Second-generation Change in the Postsocialist World, Department of Social Anthropology, the University of Oslo & Nordic-and East/Central European Network for Qualitative Social Research (NECEN), Sundvollen, Norway, April Re-thinking woman. New spirituality and female religious leadership. British Sociological Association, Sociology of Religion Study Group, Annual Conference: Religion and Gender, Lancaster University, UK, April Healing Practices Among Members of Alternative Spiritual Communities in Poland. Biennial Conference, European Association of Social Anthropologist: Face to Face. Connecting Distance and Proximity, Vienna, Austria, 8-12 Sep Brahma Kumaris kobieca kontrkultura (The Brahma Kumaris, Women s Counter-Culture), Zjazd Polskiego Towarzystwa Religioznawczego, Tyczyn, Poland, September 2003 (Meeting of the Polish Religious Studies Association). The Shakti Power for Better World. On Activity of the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, 15 th Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethological Sciences: Humankind/Nature Interaction: Past, Present And Future, Florence, Italy, 5-12 July On celibate marriages: the Polish Catholics encounter with Hindu spirituality. On the Margins of Religion, Halle, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, May 2003, organized by: Chris Hann, João de Pina-Cabral, Frances Pine. Polish Governmental Report Impact of Anti-cult Propaganda. Meeting of Law and Society Association, Research Committee on Sociology of Law of the International Sociological Association organised in co-operation with Central European University, Budapest, July

7 Polish Anti-cult Movements and their Vision of Cults and Sects. New religiosity in 21 st century organised by CESNUR and Institute of Sociology and Philosophy at the Latvian University, Riga, Latvia, August