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Prior to coming to Lund University, I was a Senior Research Fellow at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute for Sociology and an Associate Professor at Maynooth University in Ireland. 

Apart from Leading CONSPIRATIONS project I am also serving as a PI on the CHANSE project REDACT. In this project together with partners from the UK, Germany, Estonia and Croatia we analyse how digitalisation shapes the form, content and consequences of conspiracy theories. I am also involved in the CONNOR network, bringing together researchers studying conspiracy theories in the Nordic countries. 

The core of my work constitutes political anthropology which allows me to explore such fields as international development, state-NGOs relations and most recently tensions over conspiracy theories and democracy in Europe. 

Research interests: anthropology of state, social movements, conspiracy theories and disinformation, new media, NGOs, foreign aid, Europe, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, South Sudan.  

My publications can be found here https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/elzbieta-drazkiewicz

Education:

PhD, Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 2012

MA, Etnology, University of Warsaw, 2005
MA, Anthropology, Lund University 2003

Petersen (MA in ethnology and MA in Applied Cultural Analysis) is a PhD student in Conspirations, responsible for the project's research of conspiracy theories and conflicts over truths in Sweden. 

Denys Gorbach is a political ethnographer whose main interests are everyday politics, class formation, migration, social movements and ideologies constructed from below, trade unions, industrial labour, and survival strategies of the working class. His previous research focused on Ukrainian workers. In his book, The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class: Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City, he presents results of the ethnographic fieldwork he conducted in the city of Kryvyi Rih between 2018 and 2020. Participant observations made in the working-class milieu during wildcat strikes and the presidential elections of 2019 allowed him to grasp the contradictory nature of the 'ordinary' approach to politics. 

After a decade-long experience of working as an economic journalist in Kyiv, Denys obtained his second master degree at the Central European University's Sociology and Social Anthropology Department in 2017. In 2022, he was awarded a PhD degree by Sciences Po Paris. In 2023, he won a research grant from the French Red Cross Foundation to conduct field research on the survival strategies of Ukrainian war migrants in France. As part of the CONSPIRATIONS project, he conducts research fieldwork in Belgium. He focuses on the role of suspicion in the politicisation and the formation of the political worldview 'from below' among the Belgian new left.