PH.D. STUDENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT
FOR EUROPEAN ISLAM STUDIES
Agata Çakmur MA
MA: international relations with Oriental studies at the School of International Studies in Łódź. Doctoral studies in social and cultural anthropology at Yeditepe University, Istanbul.
areas of research: Meskhetian Turks, their history, identity and literature (supervisor: Prof. Agata S. Nalborczyk).
Nedim Useinov MA
MA: political studies
areas of research: Crimean Tatars, Crimean Tatar diaspora, identity of Crimean Tatars in preparation of doctoral dissertation on the emigration literature of Crimean Tatars and the significance of cultural activities of the diaspora for national identity before and after the annexation of Crimea in 2014 (supervisor: Prof. Agata S. Nalborczyk).
DEFENDED DOCTORAL THESES
- Aleksandra Grąbkowska, The Image of Islam and Muslims in the Slovenian Press after 11th September 2001 (supervisor: Prof. Agata S. Nalborczyk)
- Konrad Olgierd Zasztowt, (supervisor: Prof. Anna Parzymies)
- Marta Widy-Behiesse, The works of Tariq Ramadan. The development of Muslim identity in Europe (Twórczość Tariqa Ramadana. Kształtowanie tożsamości muzułmańskiej w Europie) (supervisor: Prof. Anna Parzymies)
- Michał Łabenda, Radical Muslim Movements in the Territory of the Fergana Valley in the 1990s Based on the Regional Writings (Radykalne ruchy muzułmańskie na terenie Doliny Fergańskiej w latach 90. XX w. na podstawie piśmiennictwa regionu) (supervisor: Prof. Anna Parzymies)
- Agata Nalborczyk, Arabic Diglossia and Bilingualism (supervisor: Prof. Anna Parzymies)
FORMER PH.D. STUDENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT
FOR EUROPEAN ISLAM STUDIES
Aleksandra Grąbkowska PhD
MA - Institute of Western and Southern Slavonic Studies (Faculty of Polish Studies, Univeristy of Warsaw),
BA - Centre for Cross-Cultural Relations
(Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw).
areas of research: Islam in Europe, Islam in the former Yugoslavian countries (with special attention to Slovenia and Bosnia and Hercegovina), cultural studies, media studies;
Ph.D. thesis on the image of Muslims in the Slovenian press after 11th Sept. 2001 (supervisor: Dr habil. Agata S. Nalborczyk).
lectures: history of Slovenia (ćwiczenia) - Institute of Western and Southern Slavonic Studies (Faculty of Polish Studies, University of Warsaw)
Konrad Zasztowt PhD
Konrad Zasztowt graduated from the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and from the Centre for East European Studies at the University of Warsaw, and is now a Ph.D. student in the Department for European Islam Studies at the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the University of Warsaw.
In the years 2003-2005 he studied at Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey. Since March 2008 he has worked at the National Security Bureau as a political analyst specializing in the South Caucasus and Central Asia.
He has prepared a doctoral thesis on Islam of the Crimean Tatars and the ethno-confessional relations in Crimea.
Konrad Zasztowt is also an author of articles on Islam, ethnical, political and social issues and international relations in the region of the Black Sea (Crimea, Caucasus, Turkey) and Central Asia.