Paweł Lewicki

PAWEŁ LEWICKI, before he came to Pitt, was a Lecturer and Researcher at the Chair for Comparative Central European Studies and at the Chair for Comparative Social and Cultural Anthropology of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). He studied ethnology and cultural anthropology at the University of Warsaw and gained his PhD at the Institute for European Ethnology of the Humboldt University in Berlin. His research interests cover embodiments of "Europe" and Europeanization from race-critical, gender and postcolonial and (post)imperial perspective. He published an ethnography titled EU-space and the Euroclass: Modernity, Nationality and Lifestyle among Eurocrats in Brussels (Columbia University Press, 2018) and co-edited a special issue on “European bodies” for the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures. The special issue titled "Struggles over Europe: Postcolonial East/West Dynamics of Race, Gender and Sexuality" (Intersections, Vol. 6, Nr 3) that he co-edited with Randi Gressgard and Rafał Smoczyński explores from postcolonial and intersectional perspectives the mutual re-production of East and West in entanglements and racist dynamics embedded in Europeanization processes. His most recent publication titles: "Racist and Imperial Genealogies in LGBT-free Zones and Struggle over Europe in Poland" and was published in a volume "Creating Europe from the Margins" (2023). Paweł's current research is on HIV positive migrants, struggles for (EU) citizenship, and the emergence of grey zones in the EU.