Dr Dorota Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska

Dorota Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Principal Investigator of the “Made in Iraq” project. She is a social anthropologist and specializes in migration, urban studies and social change with geographical focus on the Middle East. Dorota holds degrees in Arabic studies (BA) and sociology (MA) from the University of Warsaw and a PhD in social sciences from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. She held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, Birzeit University and Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient. Her PhD thesis focused on the relation between identity and place in the context of protracted exile, based on ethnographic study of a Palestinian refugee camp. Dorota’s post-doctoral project explored knowledge relations in the field of architecture and urban planning between the Polish People’s Republic and Iraq through a case study of the Department of Architecture, University of Mosul.

Selected publications

• Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska, Dorota. 2022. Historical Transformations of the Palestinian Civil Society: The Case of Sports Clubs in the West Bank. The International journal of the history of sport 38:16:1647-1669.
• Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska, Dorota. 2021. Multilocality and the Politics of Space in Protracted Exile: The Case of a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the West Bank. Transfers 11:1:92-107.
• Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska, Dorota. 2021. Participation in Spaces of Exile: The Making of Change in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the West Bank. In Spaces of Participation: Dynamics of Social and Political Change in the Arab World, R. Aboubakr, S. Jurkiewicz, H. Ait-Mansour, U. Freitag, eds. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, p. 83-104.
• Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska, Dorota. 2019. The Politics of Governance and Urban Marginality: A Camp Studies Perspective. Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology 29:1:30-46.
• Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska, Dorota. 2019. State, sport and resistance: A case of Palestinian sports clubs in the West Bank. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 55:7:915-932.
• Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska, Dorota. 2017.The right to the camp: Spatial politics of protracted encampment in the West Bank. Political Geography 61:160-169.
• Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska, Dorota and Nika Palaguta. 2017. Internally Displaced Persons and Elections under Military Conflict in Ukraine. Journal of Refugee Studies 30:1:27-46.
• Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska, Dorota. 2016. Refugee Camp as Mediating Locality: Memory and Place in Protracted Exile. In: Memories on the Move: Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past. M. Palmberger and J. Tosic, eds. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 47-74.