Editorial Team

Editor-in-chief:

maciej.kurcz@us.edu.pl

Maciej Kurcz, cultural anthropologist  assoc. prof. at the University of Silesia in Katowice., a former director of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, currently a deputy director in the Institute of Culture Studies. His research interests lie in culture dynamics in modern Africa both in the context of rural societies and urban centres. He has been engaged in researching Sudan since 2000. He is an author of more than forty publications on Africa nad Sudanu, including books: Za trzecią kataraktą (Beyond the Third Cataract, PTL 2007) based on ethnographic research in Northern Sudan in 2003 and 2004, and “Urban Now: a human in the face of borderlineness and urbanisation in Juba, South Sudan”- Berlin : Peter Lang GmbH, 2021. - 272 pp. - (International Relations in Asia, Africa and the Americas ; vol. 11) - ISBN 978-3-631-81988-3) based on ethnographic research in South Sudan in 2007 and 2008. Currently he is engaged in two archeological projects in Sudan: Soba – the Heart of Kingdom of Alwa and “Good Sheperd” from Masida. Between Kingdoms throughout epochs, ORCID: 0000-0002-9505-7311 

dr Magdalena Szalbot, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
magdalena.szalbot@us.edu.pl

Magdalena Szalbot, cultural anthropologist, Assistant Professor, PhD at the Institute of Culture Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice. She has written 40 papers in Polish and English. The project coordinator: Cultural Ecology - Specialization at the Field of Ethnology, supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA and Norway Grants and co-financed by the Polish funds, member of The Polish Ethnological Society (PTL), branch in Cieszyn and Games Research Association of Poland (PTBG). Research activity concerns problems of ludus (anthropology of play, polish and european folk games, TSG), urban anthropology, ethnicity, migration, ecology, borderlands, and multiculturalism. ORCID: 0000-0002-3915-2541

mgr Anna Pilśniak, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

anna.pilsniak@us.edu.pl

Anna Pilśniak is a Polish editor with more than ten years of experience, currently employed at the University of Silesia Publishing House. She has worked at the Museum of Art and History of Judaism in Paris. She’s a graduate from the Jagiellonian University with a MA in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and a postgraduate from the University of Silesia in Katowice in Teaching Polish as a Foreign Language.

Ewa Kozik, MA - ewa.a.kozik@us.edu.pl

Ewa Kozik, MA - ethnologist, religious studies scholar, educator, PhD student at the Doctoral School at the University of Silesia focused on the issues of contemporary medical myths. Supervisor of the Scientific Group of Ethnologists, author of scientific articles. Member of the Stanislaw Andres Scientific Society, member of the Polish Folklore Society, Cieszyn Branch. Her scientific research activities concern sociology of knowledge, philosophy of science, ethnolinguistics and folklore studies. ORCID: 0000-0003-1129-0536

dr Grzegorz Błahut, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

grzegorz.blahut@us.edu.pl

Grzegorz Błahut dr,  ethnologist, cultural anthropologist, works in Faculty of Arts and Educational Science at University of Silesia in Katowice, in Institute of Culture Studies. Author of scientific articles  on urban anthropology, visual anthropology, educator in the field of multiculturalism. Coeditor of publishing series “Pedagogy but Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology - Common Areas of Research”, member of Polish Ethnological Society, Section in Cieszyn. The ORCID number: 0000-0002-0722-3608

Academic Board:

1. Chairperson of the Academic Board: dr hab. professor Zygmunt Kłodnicki University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
2. Gábor Barna, profesor dr hab., Szegedi Tudományegyetem (Uniwersytet w Segedynie/Szeged), Hungary.
3. Zuzana Beňušková, profesor dr hab., Katedra etnológie a folkloristiky Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre (Katedra Etnologii i Folklorystyki, Uniwersytet Konstantyna Filozofa w Nitrze), Slovakia.
4. Irena Bukowska-Floreńska, profesor dr hab. UŚ (emerytowany), Poland.
5. Zenon Gajdzica, profesor zw. dr hab., Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Poland.
6. Iwona Kabzińska-Stawarz, profesor dr hab., Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii PAN w Warszawie, Poland.
7. Stepan Pavluk, profesor dr hab., Uniwersyet Lwowski, Ukraine.
8. Aleksander Posern-Zieliński, profesor zw. dr hab., Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii PAN w Poznaniu, Poland.
9. Klaus Roth, profesor dr hab., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Uniwersytet Ludwika i Maksymiliana w Monachium), Germany.
10. Halina Rusek, profesor zw. dr hab., Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Poland.
11. Rastislava Stoličná, profesor dr hab., Ústav etnológie a sociálnej antropológie Slovenskej akadémie vied (Instytut Etnologii i Antropologii Społecznej Słowackiej Akademii Nauk), Slovakia.
12. Tadeusz Siwek, profesor Rndr., Scc., Ostravska Univerzita v Ostrave (Uniwersytet w Ostrawie), Republika Czeska.
13. Miroslav Válka, docent dr hab., Masarykova univerzita (Uniwersytet Masaryka), Czech Republic.
14. Jiří Woitsch, doktor, Univerzita Karlova v Praze (Uniwersytet Karola w Pradze), Czech Republic.
15. Agnieszka Pieńczak - dr hab., Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Poland.
16. Marek Rembierz - dr hab., Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Poland.
17. Grzegorz Studnicki - dr hab., Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Poland.
18. Stanisław Węglarz - dr hab., Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Poland.
19. Kinga Czerwińska - dr hab., Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Poland.
20. Anna Drożdż - dr hab., Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Polska.
21. Petr Janeček - doc. PhDr., Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, Czech Republic.
22. Daniel Drápala -  Ph.D., Filozofická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity Brno, Czech Republic.
23. Marcin Brocki - dr hab., Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Poland.
24. Petr Lozoviuk - Ph.D., Uniwersytet Zachodnioczeski w Pilźnie, Czech Republic.
25. Letizia Bindi - prof.ssa, University of Molise, Italy.
26. Piotr Zawojski - prof. dr hab., Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Poland.
27. Karel C. Innemée - prof., Colleges of the University of Divinity, Australia (https://sac.edu.au/personnel/prof-karel-innemee/).
28. Katarzyna Marcol - dr hab., Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Poland.
29. Małgorzata Rygielska - dr hab., Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, prof. UŚ, Poland.
30. Riham Bahi - prof.ssa, International relations at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt.
31. Magdalena Banaszkiewicz - prof. dr hab., Uniwersytet Jagielloński.