GSLIS Hosts Visiting Professor from Poland
Post date: Mar 4, 2024
Through the generous support of the Kosciuszko Foundation, the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College, City University of New York, will be hosting visiting professor Dr. Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak in the Spring 2024 term.
Dr. Wiśniewska-Drewniak will be visiting us from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland, where she is an assistant professor in the Department of Archival Science and Records Management, Faculty of History. She is currently directing a project called The impact of independent community archives for the University in Torun, researching the social and affective impact of independent documentary initiatives as they become increasingly visible as archival praxis.
Dr. Wiśniewska-Drewniak previously coordinated a research project entitled Community archives in Poland - a multiple case study, culminating in her doctoral thesis. She has also published on postmodernism and community archives, affect and archives, and issues in the documentation of Ukrainian refugee experiences.
During her stay in New York, Dr. Wiśniewska-Drewniak will be researching Polish diasporic archives, questions related to community archives in archival education, and she will be working on an edited anthology, Archival Pedagogies, with GSLIS Chair Dr. James Lowry, Dr. Tshepho Mosweu of the University of Botswana, and Dr. Pimphot Seelekate of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
Follow GSLIS on social media or watch our website for announcements about Dr. Wiśniewska-Drewniak’s guest lectures and class visits this semester.