Prof. dr hab. Ewa Kocój – ethnographer, cultural anthropologist, professor at the Institute of Culture of the Jagiellonian University, psychologist and psychotherapist. Her main research interests are difficult heritage, cultural memory and memory of national, ethnic as well as religious minorities in Central and South-Eastern Europe. She researches religiosity in multicultural border regions; human relations with artefacts – including religious and folk art, as well as Carpathian heritage. Currently, she focuses on the traces of traumatic cultural heritage and underground museum practices in the Carpathian region in her research.

Studies on Heritage and Cultural Memory - The series presents new Polish and foreign research on heritage and cultural memory as well as modern discussions devoted to methods and theories connected to this field. It offers the readers publications on cultural memory, artefacts, material and immaterial cultural heritage as well as their interrelationships. Its focus centres around heritage and cultural memory in different contexts, including heritage of national, ethnic as well as religious minorities; heritage of border regions; and the difficult, uncomfortable heritage without heirs or of the marginalised and the excluded. The authors research the processes connected to the constructs of heritage and cultural memory as well as the methods of their use and misuse; while tracing the tensions between the ideologised and lived heritage. They are also interested in the notions of heritage and memory negotiations, image construction of the past and use thereof within different cultural strategies and political agendas. 

Series Editorial Board: Prof. dr hab. Ewa Kocój – series editor, dr hab. Bożena Gierat-Biedroń, dr hab. Monika Golonka-Czajkowska, prof. UJ, dr hab. Agnieszka Gronek, prof. UJ, dr hab. Alicja Kędziora, prof. UJ, dr hab. Krzysztof Kowalski, prof. dr hab. Grażyna Kubica-Heller, dr hab. Anna Niedźwiedź, prof. UJ, dr Joanna Szulborska-Łukaszewicz, dr hab. Stanisława Trebunia-Staszel, dr hab. Patrycja Trzeszczyńska, dr hab. Cezary Woźniak, prof. UJ, dr hab. Małgorzata Zawiła