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Agata Lisiak

Poland
PhD in Media and Communication Studies
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Agata Lisiak is Migration Studies professor and Academic Director of the Internship Program at Bard College Berlin as well as Research Associate at the University of the Witwatersrand. Agata earned an M.A. in International Relations (University of Economics Poznan, 2002), an M.Phil. in Literary Studies (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2005), and a Dr. Phil. in Media and Communication Studies (University of Halle-Wittenberg, 2009). She has held visiting fellowships at National Sun Yat-sen University, The Open University, and the University of Birmingham. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University’s Institute of Social Sciences (2013-2017) and a Marie Curie Actions/EURIAS fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna (2013-2014). She has also worked in the cultural sector as a project coordinator and curator.

Agata works at the intersections of migration studies, urban sociology, and cultural studies. She is particularly interested in everyday urban encounters and imaginaries, feminist theory and practice, and developing creative, multi-sensory, and collaborative methods in urban and migration research. She has written about urban girlhood, migrant motherhood, walking in the city, urban sounds, cultural memory in post-socialist cities, and Rosa Luxemburg's political ecology, among many other topics. Most recently, she was the convener and lead of the OSUN-funded Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice project and served on the Steering Committee of the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.  

Agata is the writer, host, and producer of Spatial Delight, a podcast about space, politics, and power inspired by geographer Doreen Massey. 

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Prof. Dr. Agata Lisiak
Migration Studies
Email: a.lisiak[at]berlin.bard.edu
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