Biography: Zuzanna Dziuban holds a PhD in cultural studies. She is a senior postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences within the ERC project Globalized Memorial Museums.  She is the author of Foreignness, Homelessness, Loss: Dimensions of Atopia of the Contemporary Cultural Experience (2009, in Polish), the editor of The ‘Spectral Turn’: Jewish Ghosts in the Polish Post-Holocaust Imaginaire (2019), of The ‘Forensic Turn’: Engaging Materialities of Mass Death in Holocaust Studies and Beyond (2017), and co-editor of two special issues: Forensik in Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften (2019, with Gudrun Rath and Kirsten Mahlke) and The Surviving Thing: Personal Objects in the Aftermath of Violence in the Journal of Material Culture (2020, with Ewa Stańczyk).

Research Interests: My research focuses on the material, affective and political afterlives of the Holocaust and other instances of political violence, on memorial museums and on forensic framings of mass death. I am currently working on a book devoted to the post-Holocaust politics of dead bodies, which traces the trajectory from early postwar exhumations to recent practices around human remains – from many and varied controversies surrounding the handling of ashes of Holocaust victims to forensic genetics – and consider them as deeply politically charged modalities of producing and undoing the dead. Some ghosts, obviously, also haunt this project.