Elzbieta Opilowska is Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Head of the Center for Regional and Borderlands Studies at the University of Wrocław and associate member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies/European University Viadrina. Her main expertise is in borderlands studies, memory cultures, European integration and German-Polish relations. Guest Professorship at the UniGr-Center for Border Studies, University of Luxembourg (2021) and at the Viadrina Institute of European Studies (2020/2021). She has been a visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies/European University Institute (October 2022), Centre for Border Region Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg (July-August 2022), Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) at the University of Leipzig and Centre for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies at the European University Viadrina. She has been granted scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Alfred Toepfer F.V.S. Foundation, Robert Bosch Foundation and German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Currently she is co-leading three research projects LYMAS: Life strategies of Young Labour Migrants in Ageing Societies, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation; Horizon Europe International Project: B-SHAPES: Borders Shaping Perceptions of European Societies; Resilience of cross-border cooperation in Europe – a comparative analysis of German-Polish and German-French borderlands, funded by the German-Polish Science Foundation.
Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 3575
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7084-2631
Researcher ID N-4552-2015

Roles

  • Uniwersytet Wroclawski

    University, Wroclaw, Poland
    Associate Professor

  • University of Wroclaw

    University, Wroclaw, Poland
    Assistant Professor

  • University of Wroclaw

    University, Wroclaw, Poland
    Head of the Centre

  • University of Wroclaw

    University, Wroclaw, Poland
    Assistant Professor

Research

The Covid-19 crisis: the end of a borderless Europe?

Authors Elżbieta Opiłowska
Year 2020
Journal Name European Societies
2 Journal Article

Borderlands Studies at the Turn of the Tide. An Introduction

Authors Zbigniew Kurcz, Elżbieta Opiłowska, Jochen Roose
Year 2017
Book Title Advances in European Borderlands Studies
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5 Book Chapter

Creating transborderness in the public spaces of the divided cities. The case of Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice

Authors Elżbieta Opiłowska
Year 2017
Book Title Advances in European Borderlands Studies
6 Book Chapter

“The Miracle on the Oder”

Authors Elżbieta Opiłowska
Year 2014
Journal Name East Central Europe
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10 Journal Article

Pogranicze jako przestrzeń wielokulturowa

Authors Elżbieta Opiłowska
Year 2019
Journal Name Nauka
16 Journal Article

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