Dr Helena Patzer

Dr Helena Patzer is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw. Her research interests include transnational migration, long-distance care, the critical anthropology of development, postcolonial heritage and the city, and methodology. Her PhD, defended at the University of Warsaw in 2015, was a study of Filipino middle-class professionals in the US and their involvement in development projects in the home country (it will be published by Warsaw University Press in 2025 as a book in Polish entitled Long-distance Care. Transnational Worlds of Filipino Migrants in the US). She was a recipient of numerous scholarships, among them: a Kościuszko scholarship at Harvard University (2007), an Erasmus-Mundus post-doctoral fellowship at Ateneo de Manila University (2016-2017), a post-doctoral position at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague (2017-2018), and a Visiting Research Associate status at the Intstitute of Philippine Studies (2008 and 2009). She is the author of four edited volumes, among them Pretextual Ethnographies. Challenging the Phenomenological Level of Anthropological Knowledge-Making (2018). She also directed “Money Tree”, an ethnographic film based on research with migrant families (2013).