Alicja Staniszewska 

Alicja Staniszewska is an anthropologist and a doctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She works with multi-species ethnographies and inclusive encounters in motion. Her inquiry focuses on migrations, climate and more-than-human socialities. She graduated in 2021 with a master’s degree in Cultural Ethnology and Anthropology from the University of Warsaw, where she completed the Facing the Moss project on embodied experiences in Finnish forests. In her current PhD research project, Forest Bites, funded by the Kone Foundation, she collects the perspectives of people of immigrant backgrounds on Finnish forests, ticks, and climate change. Staniszewska's research interests include environmental anthropology, migration, and the notions of imagination and disgust. She uses methods like sensory walks to explore relationships and interactions within multispecies worlds. She works in subarctic and Arctic regions, where the effects of climate change strongly manifest.

 

Image: Cicles on Skin, 2024. Photo: Alicja Staniszewska.