Ewa Kocój
Jagiellonian University
Poland

Ewa Kocój – an ethnographer and cultural anthropologist who has graduated from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and presently holds a position of an Associate Professorat Culture Institute of the Jagiellonian University. Her fields of interest include contemporary religiosity, cultural heritage, anthropological interpretation of representations and cultural symbols, as well as Eastern Christian spirituality of the Carpathian Mountains region. Prof. Kocój’s research is oriented on the cultural religiosity of Romania in comparison with other Central as well as South-Eastern European countries, Eastern borderlands and national, ethnic and religious stereotypes.

The author of the following books: Sanctuaries, persons, icons. Painted Orthodox Churches and Monasteries of South Bukovina in Romanian representations (2006); Romanian Saints (2012); The Memory of Old Centuries. The Symbolism of Time in the Romanian Orthodox Calendar(2013) as well as numerous academic papers published in Poland and elsewhere. Sheis also theeditor ofa scientific journal “Zarządzanie w Kulturze” (“Culture Management”).

At this time she is conducting research on the contemporary Eastern Christian rituals in Europe and cultural heritage of minorities (Roma/Gypsy, Aromanians/Vlachs, Old Belivers) in Europe.