Team

Project manager: Dr. Anna Becker
Polish Academy of Sciences
anna.becker@ispan.edu.pl

Anna Becker is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Institute of Slavic Studies (Department of Linguistics) at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. She received her Ph.D. in Education and a Diploma of Advanced Studies in higher education and educational technology from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. In addition to her training as a researcher, she is also a certified teacher for secondary schools and has taught German, English, Portuguese, and French to different groups of students in multiple countries. She holds a Master of Education degree and a Master of Arts degree in linguistics and second/foreign language studies from the University of Mainz, Germany. Her research focuses on applied linguistics, multilingualism in schools and society, international and comparative education, identity, migration/mobility, and power. Her work appears in Applied Linguistics, International Journal of Multilingualism, Language & Education, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism  or International Journal for Academic Development.

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Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska is anthropologist and sociolinguist, Associate Professor in the Institute of Slavic Studies (Department of Linguistics) at the Polish Academy of Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies at the University of Warsaw. She is interested in the issues of the European minority languages and communities, minority languages transmission, maintenance and revitalization, including education and activism. Her research has been supported by UNESCO (2006), Foundation for the Polish Science (2010), National Science Center (2011-2014; 2017-2020; 2021-2026), Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2012-2015), and Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (2018-2019). She publishes in International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Language, Culture & Curriculum, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Multilingua. Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, Journal of Language, Identity & Education.

Yelena Zakharova is a PhD student at the University of Warsaw (Applied Linguistics) and Research Assistant in the Institute of Slavic Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. She received her first master degree in International / Intercultural Education from the University of Southern California, US and a second master’s in Cognitive Sciences from the University of Warsaw, Poland. As a master student at UW, Yelena specialized in embodied cognition and motion tracking in infants with ASD. Her current research focuses on applied linguistics, multilingualism in schools and society, international education and mixed identity. In addition to her training as a researcher, she is also a certified EFL teacher, an IGCSE examiner, and a teacher trainer.