Magdalena Kozhevnikova

I am an ethnologist and bioethicist. My interests include non-human agents, animal ethics, trans-species and trans-species ethics, posthumanism, transhumanism, biotechnology, bioart, hybrids, and chimeras.

Most of my publications are available here: https://iaepan.academia.edu/MagdalenaKozhevnikova

I completed my master’s degree at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw, as well as a German-Russian master’s program in “Intercultural Communication” at Moscow State University of Humanities (Russia) and Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences (Germany).

At the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, I defended my doctoral dissertation titled “The Problem of Human Nature in the Context of Biotechnology Development.” From 2015 to 2018, I worked at the same institute, participating in the following research projects: from 2015 to 2017, the Russian Science Foundation grant “Humanistic Analysis of Biotechnological Projects for the ‘Enhancement’ of Humans,” and from 2017 to 2018, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant “The Divergence of the Human of the Future: Convergence of Technologies, Their Philosophical Interpretation, and Legal-Ethical Norms.”

After returning to Poland, I led seminars on the anthropology of non-human subjects at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology (IEiAK) at the University of Warsaw for three semesters. Subsequently, I was hired as a postdoctoral researcher for Dr. M. Owczarska’s project, “Experiencing Excess, Scarcity, and the Balanced Presence of Water: A Study in the Tradition of Blue Anthropology,” conducted at IEiAK, University of Warsaw.

I am currently developing a project at the intersection of ethnography and mental well-being, which can be viewed at www.logosmedytacje.pl.