Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz is an associate professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Warsaw. She received her PhD in Sociology from the Graduate School for Social Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her academic interest is in medical anthropology, new reproductive technologies, cultural dimensions of kinship, genetics, childhood and youth studies. She is the author of numerous articles and books “Od Golema do Terminatora” (“From Golem to Terminator. Cultural Images of Artificial Man”), „Doświadczenie in vitro. Niepłodność i nowe technologie reprodukcyjne w perspektywie antropologicznej” (“The experience of IVF. Infertility and new reproductive technologies in anthropological perspective”), and the editor of numerous edited volumes. Vice-Dean for Research of Faculty of Culture and Arts at University of Warsaw. Member of Bioethics Committee of the Polish Academy of Science. She has two sons.

Maria Reimann is an anthropologist and a translator. She obtained her PhD at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam. She co-founded the Interdisciplinary Team for Childhood Studies at the University of Warsaw.She is the author of „Nie przywitam się z państwem na ulicy. Szkic o doświadczeniu niepełnosprawności” (wydawnictwo Czarne, 2019). In her academic work she is interested in the way people form families and intimate relationships and the way they speak about it.

Ewa Maciejewska-Mroczek works at the Institute of Ethnology and Culture Anthropology of the University of Warsaw. She is a doctor of sociology, polonist and americanist. She is the head of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Childhood Studies at the University of Warsaw. Her main academic interest is in childhood and the place children have in modern societies and cultures. She is mostly interested in how children’s right to be heard and fully participate in the social life is being realized. She wrote a book about the role of toys in the way children and childhood are socially constructed “Mrówcza zabawa. Współczesne zabawki a społeczne konsturowanie dziecka”. In the past she worked with children as English teacher, educator at a community centre, and tutor at children summer camps. She is a mother of three children.

Zofia Boni is a sociologist and anthropologist, in her research focusing on food. Her PhD (SOAS, University of London) focused on children and food in Warsaw, especially on the multiple negotiations regarding feeding and eating. Besides studying various groups of adults (parents, grandparents, school staff, non-governmental workers, food marketers and state officials) she also talked to children between 6 and 12 years old, asking them about their views, opinions and practices related to food. She is about to start a new research project on the social dynamics of childhood obesity in Poland.

Marta Rakoczy – Assistant Professor in the Section for Anthropology of the Word in Institute of Polish Culture at University of Warsaw. She graduated in cultural studies and philosophy. Her academic work focuses on anthropology of literacy and anthropology of education. Author of the book Słowo, działanie, kontekst [Word, Action, Context] (2012) devoted to Malinowski’s ethnographic conception of language, which won the University of Warsaw Rector Prize in 2012. Co-author and co-editor of several collective volumes: Od aforyzmu do zinu. Gatunki twórczości słownej [From Aphorism to Zine: Genres of Verbal Works] (2013); Communicare: Almanach antropologiczny nr 4, Twórczość słowna/literatura. Performance, tekst, hipertekst [Verbal Works/Literature. Performance, Text, Hipertext] (2014); Communicare: szkoła/pismo [School/Writing] (2015) and Polityki pisma. Szkice plenerowe z pajdocentrycznej nowoczesność, [The Politics of Literacy. Field sketches from paidocentric modernity] (2018) .The translator of David R. Olson’s World on Paper. Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading (2010) and Roy Harris’s Rationality and the Literate Mind (2014). She is currently working on a book about the Janusz Korczak’s philosophy of education.

Anna Witeska-Młynarczyk is a social anthropologist working at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw. She did her PhD at the University College London. Her dissertation was turned into a book titled Evoking Polish Memory. State, Self and the Communist Past in Transition. She is interested in medical anthropology, particularly strongly in child and youth psychiatry. She edited a volume Anthropology of child and youth psychiatry. Anthology of texts and I authored a manuscript Children’s ADHD experiences: an ethnography of a contested diagnostic category – a book based on an ethnographic research conducted in Poland in which she used participatory methods of childhood studies to understand children’s experiences. She currently works as member of a team in a research project focused on the Polish experiences of adoption.