My research interests revolve around issues of memory and museum studies. So far, I have worked on the significance of historical exhibitions in Central and Eastern Europe (The Enemy on Display, 2015), but primarily on the memory and commemoration of Soviet repression in Russia (Gulag Memories, 2012; Gulag Memories, 2018). Initially interested in secular commemorations, I then focused on Orthodox memory of repression, analyzing how memory and religion intersect in the commemorations of new Russian martyrs, but also how these activities affect secular memory and understanding of repression. I have also conducted research on the religious dimension of memory in Poland in an effort to show how, with the help of religion and religious imagery, local communities are coping, or not, with the experience of the collective trauma of World War II (Milieux de mémoire in LateModernity, 2019). My current project looks at the memory of Soviet repression from a decolonial perspective by analyzing the postcolonial entanglements of the memory of repression in the Russian Far East.

Most of my publications can be found on the website of the Center for Ethnology and Anthropology of Modernity of the IAE PAN

contact: mitregaz@wp.pl; zbogumil@iaepan.edu.pl