Academic interests
justice; migration; narratives; identities; multilingual education; humanizing research methods; teacher education for refugee- and immigrant-background students; socially just pedagogies; language ideologies
Educational background
- 2020. Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction, ESOL/ Bilingual Education, School of Teaching and Learning, College of Education, University of Florida, USA
Dissertation (August 2020): Counter-stories from Poland: Identities and language identities of adolescent refugee-background students
- 2013. M.A. Applied Linguistics, Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw, Poland
- 2013. Postgraduate Studies, Latin America in the Modern World, Center for Latin American Studies (CESLA), University of Warsaw, Poland
- 2012. Postgraduate Studies, Cultural Diplomacy, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland
- 2012. Erasmus Student Exchange, École de Traduction et Interprétation ISTI – Cooremans, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- 2011. Bilateral Exchange Program (University of Warsaw award), Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, USA
- 2010. B.A. Applied Linguistics, Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw, Poland
Academic positions held
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Visiting Researcher, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MultiLing, University Of Oslo, Norway
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Research Assistant, in Project STELLAR (Supporting Teachers of English Language Learners Across Rural Settings) funded by US Department of Education, Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), Washington, DC. (P.I.: Maria R. Coady, Ph.D.), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Research Assistant, Irving and Rose Fien Endowed Professorship (P.I.: Maria R. Coady, Ph.D.), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Teaching Assistant, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
University courses taught
- LING4140 Linguistic Method/ Språkvitenskapelig metode (Fall 2022), University of Oslo, Norway
- NOAS 4102 Second Language Learning from a Socio-cognitive and Sociocultural Perspective/ Andrespråkslæring i et sosio-kognitivt og sosiokulturelt perspektiv (Spring 2022), University of Oslo, Norway
- CM3 - Research Methods in Education (Humanizing research methodology) (Fall 2019), University of Warsaw, Poland
- TSL 4100 ESOL Curriculum, Methods & Assessment (Spring 2018), School of Teaching and Learning, University of Florida, USA
- TSL 4324 ESOL Strategies for the Content Area Teacher (Fall 2017), School of Teaching and Learning, University of Florida, USA
Selected awards
- Fulbright Graduate Student Award
- Delta Kappa Gamma Society International: World Fellowship, USA
- Finalist of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Second Language Research (SLR) Special Interest Group Outstanding Dissertation Award (2021&2022), USA
- Finalist of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Arts-Based Educational Research (ABER) Special Interest Group Outstanding Dissertation Award (2022), USA
- Early Career Scholar Speaker Award, International Symposium on Bilingualism ISB 13 (2021), University of Warsaw, Poland
Selected scientific events
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Multilingual identities in refugee-background students’ voices. Counter-stories from Poland. (2021). Paper presented at “Language and Migration: Experience and Memory” Symposium, co-sponsored by Migration Lab of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University and the Study Group for Language and the United Nation, USA