e-mail: romanapozniak@ief.hr
Romana Pozniak graduated in ethnology and cultural anthropology and anthropology from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in 2015. She received her PhD from the same faculty in 2022 with the topic “Humanitarian work in the context of refugees and migration in post-transition Croatia”. Her scientific interests lie in humanitarian and welfare policies, anthropology of work and critical migration studies. In addition to her postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, she completed the international doctoral school Transformations in European Societies based at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. She has participated in numerous professional and scientific conferences and published a dozen papers in domestic and international publications related to the phenomenon of transformative (humanitarian) work and refugee and welfare policies.
Since 2013, she has been involved in the work of several initiatives/collectives that deal with the protection of the rights of refugees and people on the move, and she was also a co-founder of the social cooperative Okus doma. From 2015 to 2016, she worked as a coordinator of the protection program for vulnerable groups at the Winter Reception and Transit Center in Slavonski Brod, and from 2016 to 2018 as a project associate at the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Since July 2018, she has been working at the Institute of Ethnology and Folkloristics, where she was involved in the projects “Transformation of work in post-transition Croatia” (TRANSWORK, 2017-2021), “European regime of irregular migration on the periphery of the EU: from ethnography to glossary” (ERIM, 2020-2024) and “Precarious culture and the future of work” (BURA, 2024-2027). She is currently on study leave at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, at the Department of Cultural Studies/European Ethnology, within the framework of a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship (2025-2027) awarded under the project “Politics of Humanitarian Care: Relief, Displacement and Social Reproduction in Croatia” (REHUM).