PROFIL PRACOWNIKA: Dawid Kobiałka

Dr Dawid Kobiałka was born on 13 August 1985 in Chojnice. After graduating from primary school and high school, in 2004 he began higher studies in the field of archaeology at the Faculty of History of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

He completed his archaeological studies in 2009 with a master's thesis entitled "Biography of things in theory and practice, the promoter of which was prof. W. Raczkowski. In 2009, he was on a one-year scholarship under the Erasmus program at the Linnaeus University in Kalmar (Sweden), where he graduated with a master's degree (MA) based on the thesis entitled “Approaching archaeologists' culture. Slavoj Žižek, psychoanalysis and archeology” – prof. C. Holtorf was its promoter. In 2010, he also defended his bachelor's thesis at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań based on the work entitled "Ethnography and the history of the long life of archaeological artefacts", under the supervision of the then dr. A. W. Brzezińska.

In the years 2009-2014 he was a participant in doctoral studies at the Faculty of History of the University of Adam Mickiewicz completed with obtaining the title of doctor on the basis of the dissertation entitled "Józef Kostrzewski's archaeology from the perspective of contemporary methodological reflection (supervisor prof. W. Rączkowski). During his doctoral studies, he was on a scholarship from the Swedish Institute at the Linnaeus University in Kalmar in 2012-2013. During it, he carried out research on the role and importance of historical reenactment (the project entitled "Back to the past? The relations between tourism, past, and cultural heritage. The case of Poland and Sweden").

Forensic archaeology, archaeology of crime, archaeology of the recent past, modern conflict archaeology, heritage studies, public archaeology, community archaeology.