EDITORIAL TEAM / - R/EVOLUTIONS: GLOBAL TRENDS & REGIONAL ISSUES

Agnieszka Tamara Filipiak is a PhD student at the Department of Political Culture at Adam Mickiewicz University. She graduated with Master degrees in two disciplines: Political Science and Spanish Philology. During her studies she also studied at Malaga University (Faculty of Communication and Faculty of Humanities). 

agnieszka.filipiak@amu.edu.pl

Agnieszka Tamara Filipiak is a PhD student at the Department of Political Culture at Adam Mickiewicz University. She graduated with Master degrees in two disciplines: Political Science and Spanish Philology. During her studies she also studied at Malaga University (Faculty of Communication and Faculty of Humanities).

Her main research interests encompasses the role of alternative media centers in social movement processes, gender studies in the field of New Media, the analysis of audiovisual journalistic material and Spanish-language communication culture. The title of her upcoming doctoral thesis is “Mass communication in light of the socio-political reality: Indymedia as media of new social movements.”

Agnieszka is a co-founder of R/evolutions and the member of Revolutions Research Center. Within R/evolutions Team she is responsible for Human Resources.

In cooperation with the School of Journalism (Stony Brook University) and after attending its 2014 News Literacy Summer Institute there she is working with Eliza Kania and Rafał Wiśniewski on implementing and adjusting this demanding and useful course on media education in Poland and Central Europe.

In her free time Agnieszka is follower and believer of popular culture, specially: street art and European film. She is also a cheerful producer of tap dance rhythms.

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Eliza Kania earned PhD at the Faculty of Political Science & Journalism, AMU in Poznań. She works on precarization of labor, history and social implications of capitalism, and new social movements. Eliza is a co-founder of R/evolutions and serves as President of Revolutions Research Center. Within R/evolutions Team she is also responsible for layout, graphic and visual identification of R/evolutions. 

eliza.kania@amu.edu.pl

Eliza Kania earned PhD at the Faculty of Political Science & Journalism, AMU in Poznań. She works on precarization of labor, history and social implications of capitalism, and new social movements. Her other areas of scientific interests are collective memory and gender studies.

She is a co-founder of R/evolutions and serves as President of Revolutions Research Center. Within R/evolutions Team she is also responsible for layout, website, graphic and visual identification of R/evolutions.

Eliza attended News Literacy Summer School in New York, 2014 and now she is implementing news literacy course and methodology in Poznań at Faculty of Political Science and Journalism. As a member of research project: European Union according to intensive development of Peoples Republic of China, in which she will realize her tasks in cooperation with Hong Kong Baptist University and Communication University of China in Beijing.

She is also co-founder and active member of “Projekt Gender” – a research group concerning gender issues at the Faculty and “Dialogues of Memory” – a research group on collective memory, conducted by prof. Anna Wolff-Powęska.

Eliza loves travelling through former Soviet Union territories, and travelling at all. She is also passionate on design, graphic and visual communication.

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Jeroen Van den Bosch is Belgian national, who started his studies at the Catholic University of Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KUL), Belgium. He first studied Slavonic studies, before moving on to the realm of international relations. During his studies he did research in Odessa, Irkutsk (IGLU, Russian Federation), Cracow (UJ), and Moscow (Pushkin Institute). He obtained both degrees at the KUL in 2008 and 2010. After his studies he remained two years at AMU as a researcher, where he currently stays on as a PhD student at the department of international relations since 2012. His research fields cover democratization, dictatorships (political regimes), Sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia.  

jvdbosch@amu.edu.pl

Jeroen J. J. Van den Bosch was born in 1986 and raised in Leuven, Belgium. His choice for Slavonic studies launched him into the rich cultural world of Central and Eastern Europe. Fascinated by the period of the Russian civil war (1917-1922), he decided to write his master dissertation on Russian historiography on three famous protagonists: Admiral A. V. Kol’chak, supreme commander of the White movement, general M. N. Tukhachevski of the Red Army and Nestor Makhno, leader of an anarchist movement in Ukraine.

For his Slavonic studies Jeroen did research in Odessa, Irkutsk, Krakow and Moscow. During his last year he decided to enter the realm of international and comparative politics. And after his master he decided to move to Poznań, Poland in 2010 in order to finish his second master paper: Polish Foreign Policy and the ENP – Complementing or Conflicting Interests. After obtaining his master degree, he decided to stay at Adam Mickiewicz University as a researcher and since 2012 as a PhD student at the Faculty of Political Science & Journalism, AMU.

Having specialized in Slavonic studies and Polish foreign policy before, it was necessary to re-orientate in face of the high levels of expertise at AMU on these topics. Jeroen decided to carve out a niche for himself, first by specializing on the Democratic Republic of Congo, a former Belgian colony; and on Central Asian politics as a researcher. For his PhD topic however, he chose to continue working on Sub Saharan Africa, but from the perspective of authoritarian regimes and dictatorships. His PhD dissertation focuses on personalist regimes, their modes of transition and obstacle to democratization.

The decision to start R/evolutions with friends started in 2012 with a humble project but has been growing every year. Beside his work as editor-in-chief and his PhD, Jeroen is active as well within the Transatlantic Mobility Office coordinating mainly Erasmus Mundus mobility. He likes to read history books and is interested in how the world’s civilizations have evolved. Besides this, Jeroen likes board and card games.

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Rafał Wiśniewski (PhD) is a lecturer at the department of strategic studies, Faculty of Political Science & Journalism, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Rafał is a co-founder of R/evolutions and serves as Vice-President of Revolutions Research Center.

rafal.wisniewski@amu.edu.pl

Rafał Wiśniewski (PhD) is a lecturer at the department of strategic studies, Faculty of Political Science & Journalism, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. After graduating political science at AMU, he defended his PhD thesis on the topic of great power cooperation and rivalry in North East Asia in 2014. Rafał is a passionate researcher of such issues as international security in Asia (and beyond), military strategy and defence industry.

Rafał is a co-founder of R/evolutions and serves as Vice-President of Revolutions Research Center.

After attending 2014 News Literacy Summer Institute at Stony Brook University he works with Agnieszka Filipiak and Eliza Kania on implementing this new and exciting form of media education in Poland and wider Central Europe region.

Rafał is a dedicated fan of science-fiction in every form: print, movie or computer games and strongly believes that they can be valuable metaphors to be used for thinking and teaching on political science and international relations.

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Lasha Markozashvili is a PhD student at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He is a master of international relations and possesses a master on European Integration and Regional Cooperation. His degrees were obtained in Ilia State University of Georgia and the University of Ruse, Bulgaria. His current research interests include system theories, theories of European integration, theories of democracy and democratization, and theories of international security.

lmarkozashvili@gmail.com

Lasha Markozashvili is a PhD student at the department of the Political Science & Journalism, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. Lasha has a multi-disciplinary educational background and therefore, his scientific interests cover a broad range of topics.

At early stages of his studies he was greatly influenced by the works of theoretical linguistics and discourse studies. Linguistic matters helped to develop his interest in political science. The idea of language as an arbitrary system of symbols, looked very similar to constructivist understandings of the world as a social construction, due to this similarity (and other factors), he decided to take two different graduate courses of the political science after obtaining his bachelor’s degree in philology.

Lasha believes that “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” and instead of old reductionist approaches, he tries to use holistic-systemic thinking to analyze the European Integration in his doctoral work.

Other interests include: cybernetics, systems sociology, democracy and democratization, post-human philosophy.

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