Maria Piekarska-Baronet, PhD

e-mail: me.piekarska@uw.edu.pl

Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies at the Deparment of Hebrew Studies, University of Warsaw. She teaches courses on the modern Hebrew language and culture, as well as the history, memory, and spatial aspects of contemporary Israel/Palestine.

Her research interests focus on the spatial, environmental, and material dimensions of memory, especially the meeting points of cultural practices with natural environment and landscape. She is currently working on the topic of relationships between the Yishuv and interwar Poland in environmental contexts.

She received her doctoral degree with distinction for a thesis titled Forest as a space of commemoration in Jewish-Israeli memory culture prepared within the “Interdisciplinary PhD Program Nature-Culture” at the Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw. Recipient of numerous scholarships, i.a. from the World Union of Jewish Studies (for a research stay at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Israel Council for Higher Education (for a research stay at the Landscape Architecture Program in Technion – Israel Institute of Technology), Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (for a research stay at the University of Haifa), and Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem.

Selected publications:

„Żywotność pomnika w czasie: Las jako upamiętnienie.” Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne 54 (2024): 441-460. https://doi.org/10.24425/hsm.2024.153715.
“Walking, remembering, and enunciating the place: Jewish-Israeli memorial trails in nature”. In Pathways: Exploring the Routes of a Movement Heritage, edited by Daniel Svensson, Katarina Saltzman, Sverker Sörlin, 279-294. Cambridgeshire: White Horse Press, 2022. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2p5zn1t.21.
“‘Instead of Tombstones – a Tree, a Garden, a Grove’: Early Israeli Forests as Environmental Memorials.” Colloquia Humanistica 9 (2020): 101-120. https://doi.org/10.11649/ch.2020.008.
„Maéva Clément, Eric Sangar (red.), Researching emotions in International Relations. Methodological perspectives on the emotional turn.” Stosunki Międzynarodowe – International Relations 53, nr 4 (2017): 249-253.