dr Monika Żychlińska

Scientific activity

2024 – PhD, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw

2009 – MA, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw

2006 – MA, Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw

Scientific interests

Memory Studies, memory activism, gender, museums, memorials, American society

Selected publications

Articles:

2022: “Heroines of Compassion and National Consolers: the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation and the Politics of Memory”. Journal of American Studies 56 (2022): 447-482 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875821001213

2020: “Mass Grave Exhumations as Patriotic Retreat: Sacralisation and Militarisation in the Remembrance of the ‘Cursed Soldiers”. Human Remains and Violence  6/2 (2020): 42-60, co-author Marije Hristova. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7227/HRV.6.2.4

2016: “Museal Games and Emotional Truths: Creating Polish National Identity at the Warsaw Rising Museum”. East European Politics and Societies, 30/2 (2016): 447-482, co-author Erica Fontana.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325414566198

2011: “The Black Gash of Shame”: the Struggle between the Representations of Masculinity and Femininity in the Process of the Vietnam War Commemoration”. The Americanist: Warsaw Journal of American Studies 26 (2011): 73-85.

2009: „Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego jako wehikuł polskiej pamięci zbiorowej”. Kultura i Społeczeństwo 3 (2009): 89-114.

 

Book chapters:

2013: „Herosi pośród ruin. Kod romantyczny jako fundament polskiej polityki historycznej na przykładzie Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego”. Przeszłość w dyskursie publicznym (red.) Andrzej Szpociński (Warszawa: Scholar, 2013): 39-55.

 

Translations from English:

2009: J. Lofland et al. Analiza układów społecznych. Przewodnik metodologiczny po badaniach jakościowych [Analyzing Social Settings: A Guide to Qualitative Observation and Analysis] (Warszawa: Scholar, 2009), in collaboration with Anna Rosińska and Sylwia Urbańska

Projects

Completed projects

2017-2020 Against Stigma and Invisibility. Identity Politics of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Project”, Preludium Grant, National Science Center (NCN), Poland

Other

2025 – Second Prize in the Inka Brodzka-Wald Competition for the Most Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations in Contemporary Humanities

2025 – Third Prize in the National Freedom Institute Competition for the Best Doctoral Dissertations on Civil Society

2025/26 – Fulbright Polish Scholar Award, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

2012/13 – Kościuszko Foundation pre-doctoral research grant, New School for Social Research, New York, USA

2005 – Erasmus Programme, University of Copenhagen, Denmark