UWr researchers among winners of Fulbright Senior Award 2023-24
The competition process for the Fulbright Senior Award 2023-24 programme is now over. Applications for the programme were accepted until 27 May 2022. Eighty-five applicants participated in the competition.
We are pleased to announce that two researchers from the University of Wrocław have been nominated for the grant: dr hab. Justyna Baron from the Institute of Archaeology and dr hab. Adam Mrozowicki, prof. UWr from the Institute of Sociology. Congratulations!
The Fulbright Senior Award is a grant programme that enables individuals employed at Polish academic and scientific institutions to carry out independent research or research and didactic projects at host institutions in the USA.
Dr hab. Justyna Baron
Born 1975, archaeologist, graduated from Carolinum High School in Nysa, completed her university education in 1999, and since 2004 has been working at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Wrocław. Author, co-author and editor of 8 books and about 80 scientific and popular science articles, mainly concerning the second and first millennium BC in Central Europe.
Her current interest is in the technological traditions of making metal, bone and antler objects and ceramics that existed in Central Europe during the Bronze Age (2300-800 BC). She has carried out two research projects (NCN Opus: Community, identity, ritual. Interdisciplinary pattern of research proceedings in studies on cremation cemeteries of the Lusatian culture population, MKiDN: Multifaceted analysis of the phenomenon of deposition of metal objects in the Bronze Age on the example of treasures from Karmin).
She was the supervisor of three completed doctoral dissertations. She regularly presents her research results at international conferences and publishes in renowned journals.
She will be carrying out the project ‘Cross-craft interactions in the Central European Bronze Age’ at the Field Museum in Chicago for 10 months. Privately a mother of twins, in her free time she plays sports. She cycles to work, is a vegetarian and is learning Spanish.
Dr hab. Adam Mrozowicki, prof. UWr
Head of the Department of Sociology of Work and Economic Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław. He obtained his PhD in social sciences in 2009 from the Centre for Sociological Research at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium). He has worked at the Institute of Sociology at the UWr since October 2009. In 2016, he obtained a post-doctoral degree in social sciences in the discipline of sociology, specialisation in sociology of economy at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Wrocław.
His research interests include sociology of work, sociology of economy, comparative research on collective labour relations, research on precarity, critical social realism and biographical research methodology. He is currently leading the NCN OPUS project ‘COV-WORK: Socio-economic consciousness work experiences and coping strategies of Poles in the context of the post-pandemic crisis’ and the Polish research team in the Horizon Europe project INCA INcrease Corporate political responsibility and Accountability.
During the Fulbright grant, he will visit the Industrial and Labor Relations School, Cornell University, where he will work with Prof. Virgini Doellgast’s team for six months. He will carry out a pilot study on how workers in the education, healthcare and logistics industries in New York State cope with post-pandemic socio-economic crises. The trip is scheduled for March-August 2024.
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Translated by Damian Pawlik (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.
