Scott Simpson

Scott Simpson is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University, specializing in Contemporary Paganism and Native American Studies in Central and Eastern Europe. He has co-edited the Contemporary and Historical Paganism series with Equinox Publishing since 1995 and serves on the editorial board of The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies.

• Research Interests: Religious diversity in Central/Eastern Europe, ritual theory (including linguistic analogies for ritual structure), food and drink studies (notably Polish vodka history), and Slavic Native Faith (Rodzimowierstwo).
• Exhibition Curation: Co-curator of Slavic Apocrypha (Archaeological Museum, Krakow, 2018-2019); curator of Constructing a Vision of Contemporary Paganism in Poland (2011) and Romantic Imagination and Polish Neo-Paganism (2009) at Jagiellonian Library.
• Key Publications: Focus on Rodzimowierstwo's strategies for movement construction, gender essentialism, ritual theory, and the cultural history of Polish vodka. Collaborated extensively with Kaarina Aitamurto on Central/Eastern European Pagan movements.