
dr Alexandra Staniewska
PI of a research project, Department of Theory and Methodology of Anthropology
Room: 2.14
Phone: 61 829 13 71/61 829 13 72
E-mail: alesta@amu.edu.pl
Office hours:
- physical anthropology
- bio- and necropolitics
- death and dead bodies studies
- exhumations
- politics of memory
- forensic genetics
Pérez-Ramallo P., Rodríguez-Varela R., Staniewska A., Ilgner J., Krzewińska M., Chivall D., Higham T., Götherström A., Roberts P., Unveiling Bishop Teodomiro of Iría Flavia? An attempt to identify the discoverer of St James’ tomb through osteological and biomolecular analyses (Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain), „Antiquity” 2024: 98 (400), s. 973–990, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/unveiling-bishop-teodomiro-of-iria-flavia-an-attempt-to-identify-the-discoverer-of-st-jamess-tomb-through-osteological-and-biomolecular-analyses-santiago-de-compostela-galicia-spain/3D7EA1E8EEE9E2B0F9832547FCF1B545.
Pérez-Ramallo P., Lorenzo-Lizalde J. I., Staniewska A., Aiestaran M., Aguirre J., Sesma Sesma J., Marzo S., Lucas M., Ilgner J., Chivall D., Higham T., Rodríguez-Varela R., Götherström A., Etxeberria F., Grandal-d’Anglade A., Alexander M., Roberts P., To the Field of Stars: Stable isotope analysis of Medieval pilgrims and populations along the Camino de Santiago in Navarre and Aragon, Spain, „Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports” 2023: 48, 103847, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X23000226.
Staniewska A., Domańska E. (eds.), Ekshumacje polityczne: teoria i praktyka [Political exhumations: Theory and practice], Gdańsk–Lubin: słowo/obraz terytoria, Muzeum Historyczne w Lubinie 2023, https://terytoria.com.pl/1849-ekshumacje-polityczne.html.
Staniewska A., Domańska E., Ekshumacje polityczne jako zjawisko społeczne i wielodziedzinowe pole badań [Political exhumations as a social phenomenon and a multidisciplinary field of research], w: A. Staniewska, E. Domańska (eds.), Ekshumacje polityczne: teoria i praktyka [Political exhumations: Theory and practice], s. 13–61, Gdańsk–Lubin: słowo/obraz terytoria, Muzeum Historyczne w Lubinie 2023, https://terytoria.com.pl/1849-ekshumacje-polityczne.html.
Pérez-Ramallo P., Lorenzo-Lizalde J. I., Staniewska A., Lopez B., Alexander M., Marzo S., Lucas M., Ilgner J., Chivall D., Grandal-d´Anglade A., Roberts P., Stable isotope analysis and differences in diet and social status in northern Medieval Christian Spain (9th-13th centuries CE), „Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports” vol. 41: 2022, 103325, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X2100537X.
Phillips C., de la Puente M., Ruiz-Ramirez J., Staniewska A., Ambroa-Conde A., Freire-Aradas A., Mosquera-Miguel A., Rodriguez A., Lareu M. V., Eurasiaplex-2: Shifting the focus to SNPs with high population specificity increases the power of forensic ancestry marker sets, „Forensic Science International: Genetics” vol. 61: 2022, 102780, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1872497322001211.
Pérez-Ramallo P., Lorenzo-Lizalde J. I., Staniewska A., Lopez B., Alexander M., Marzo S., Lucas M., Ilgner J., Chivall D., Grandal-d´Anglade A., Roberts P., Stable isotope analysis and differences in diet and social status in northern Medieval Christian Spain (9th-13th centuries CE), „Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports” vol. 41: 2022, 103325.
Staniewska A., Ekshumacje polityczne. Przypadek ofiar wojny domowej w Hiszpanii (1936–1939) [Political exhumations: The case of victims of the Spanish civil war (1936–1939)], „Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne” t. 51: 2021, s. 201–222, https://journals.pan.pl/Content/121533/PDF/2021-HSRK-10-Staniewska.pdf.
Staniewska A., Ekshumacje jako rytuały nacjonalistyczne [Exhumations as nationalist rituals], „Etnologia” 2017, http://www.etnologia.pl/europa/teksty/ekhumacje-jako-rytualy-nacjonalistyczne.php.
Staniewska A., Bose Antki [Barefoot Anteks], w: N. Bloch (red.), Wszyscy jesteśmy migrantami. (Od)zyskiwanie pamięci migracyjnej [We are all migrants. (Re)covering the memory of migration], s. 189-197, Poznań: Centrum Kultury Zamek we współpracy z IEiAK UAM oraz CeBaM UAM 2016, https://ckzamek.pl/media/files/Wszyscy_jestesmy_migrantami_EXZ4kcL.pdf.
2024–2027: Necromirations. Posthumous mobilities in anthropological perspective (Polish National Science Centre PRELUDIUM; Adam Mickiewicz University) – Principal Investigator
2024–2026: Archaeological heritage values from the perspective of local communities – a comparative analysis (Polish Ministry of Education and Science, „Science for Society II”; Hereditas Foundation) – team member
2023–2027: COST Action CA22106: Migrant Disaster Victim Identification
2023–2025: COST Action CA20134: Traces as research agenda for climate change, technology studies, and social justice
2022–2025: Archaeology of the Pomeranian Crime of 1939 (NCN SONATA; University of Lodz) – team member
2018: Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela: Osteological and biomolecular analysis of medieval individuals (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History; Stockholm University; University of Oxford; „La Caixa” Banking Foundation) – researcher
2017–2021: Necropolitics of identity: The case of the Oiartzun exhumation (Basque Country) (Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, „Diamond Grant”; Adam Mickiewicz University) – Principal Investigator
2018: Excavations of remains from the Chalcolithic period in the Allekoaitze Kabaundi cave (Basque Country) (Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain) – researcher
2017-2018: Exhumations of victims of the Spanish Civil War in the autonomous communities of the Basque Country, Navarre, Asturias, Castile and León (Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi; source of financing depends on location).
2017-2018: Osteological analysis of remains from medieval Spanish necropolises in autonomous communities such as the Basque Country, Navarre, Asturias, Cantabria, and Aragon (institution and source of financing depending on location).
2017: Mobile lives, immobile Spaces? Women’s migration between Poland and Norway (Centre for Migration Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University) – researcher
2016: Memory, pleasure, and shame: Berat’s public space (Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Consulate of the Republic of Albania in Poznań) – team member
2016: We are all migrants (ZAMEK Culture Centre in Poznan, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Centre for Migration Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University) – team member
2016: Anthropological research of a battle grave from the time of the Swedish Deluge (Gołańcz) (Institute of Anthropology at the Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University) – researcher
2015: Rise or fall? Kujawy society in the light of archaeological and specialized research (Institute of Anthropology at the Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University) – researcher
Research internships and training:
03.2026: Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Leipzig, Germany
02.2026: Physical Evidence in Migrant ID Training (School of Medicine, University of Crete, Greece)
07.2025: MDVI Workshop: AI fundamentals and applications in the search and identification of missing persons (Research Centre in Information and Communication Technology, University of A Coruña, Spain)
03.2025: Craniofacial Identification Training (Face Lab, Liverpool John Moores University, Great Britain)
05.2022: Atrocity Crimes Prevention and Human Rights: Implementing the Responsibility to Protect (Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia)
2020–2022: Unidad de Genética Forense, Instituto de Ciencias Forenses “Luis Concheiro”, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2017–2018: Departamento de Antropología Física, Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
09.2017: Violencia masiva, fosas comunes y derechos humanos. Perspectivas desde las ciencias forenses y sociales (University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain)
Scholarships and awards:
2025: Professor Barbara Skarga Scholarship
2025: START Scholarship from the Foundation for Polish Science
2022: Dr. Jan Kulczyk Scholarship
2021: Doctoral Grant from the University of Tomorrow
2020: Antoni Kalina Award (PTL) for the most interesting ethnological/anthropological event (for organizing the IUAES Inter-Congress 2019; group award)
2018: Scholarship from the Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation
Scientific associations memberships:
The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
European Association of Social Anthropologists
