a graduate of the Krakow Academy of Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, Faculty of Law and Administration, field: public administration. Also completed a postgraduate studies: Vocational Counsellor at the Krakow University of Technology and postgraduate studies: “The situation of the Roma in Poland – history, law, culture, ethnic stereotypes” at the Pedagogical University in Krakow. Currently a master student at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Faculty of International and Political Studies at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora in the field of International Migration and Ethnic Relations.
Monika is engaged in the activities focused on the development and preservation of Roma culture and tradition. She cooperates with Roma organizations and writes and translates texts into Romani. She co-authored a book Prosto z garnka. Tradycje kulinarne Romów [Eng. Straight from the pot. Culinary traditions of the Roma]. The author of the documentary film There were the blacksmiths, there were … The film was recommended by the Council of Europe as part of the European Heritage Strategy for the 21st century and included in the Golden Colection of Good Practices as a protection of the Roma heritage.
Selected publications
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Kamila Fiałkowska,
Ignacy Jóźwiak,
Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz,
Sonia Styrkacz,
Monika Szewczyk,
Romani dar and Romano marbien pało Roma1 . Between fear and agency – (un)equal citizenships two years into fullscale war in Ukraine
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Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz,
Kamila Fiałkowska,
Monika Szewczyk,
National and local mobilisation of Roma and non-Roma organisations and activists in Poland supporting Ukrainian Roma forced migrants in the face of the war in Ukraine
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Kamila Fiałkowska,
Michał P. Garapich,
Ignacy Jóźwiak,
Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz,
Sonia Styrkacz,
Monika Szewczyk,
Anti-paćiw of Gadje academia, Ficowski’s shadow and what to do about it – exercises in reciprocal ethnography and decolonizing the Polish Romani studies
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Monika Szewczyk,
Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz,
Ignacy Jóźwiak,
The Internet and Transnational Polish Roma Families in a Time of Pandemic
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Kamila Fiałkowska,
Michał P. Garapich,
Ignacy Jóźwiak,
Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz,
Sonia Styrkacz,
Monika Szewczyk,
Romani Chronicles Of Covid-19. Testimonies Of Harm And Resilience
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Ignacy Jóźwiak,
Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz,
Sonia Styrkacz,
Monika Szewczyk,
Stay calm and beshen khere. Internet i transnarodowa intensyfikacja życia polskich Romów w czasie pandemii COVID-19
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Kamila Fiałkowska,
Michał P. Garapich,
Ignacy Jóźwiak,
Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz,
Sonia Styrkacz,
Monika Szewczyk,
The deeper meaning of making pierogi online
