Sendyka Roma

Sendyka Roma is a Professor at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, in the Department of Anthropology of Literature and Cultural Studies under the Faculty of Polish Studies. She is the co-founder and founding director of the Research Center for Memory Cultures, focusing on bystanders' memory policies and collaboration with museums and artists addressing difficult pasts.

Her research interests span cultural theory, visual culture studies, and memory studies, with a current emphasis on non-sites of memory in Eastern Europe, genocide representation, and bystander memory. She has led significant projects including the NCN-funded Uncommemorated Genocide Sites (2016–2020), TRACES (2016–2019), and the DFG-NCN project on Polish Folk Art and the Holocaust (2020–2023). She also collaborates with CARMAH and SSHRC initiatives on museums and Holocaust bystander studies.

• Scientific Awards: Kościuszko Foundation, DAAD, ERSTE Stiftung, and European Holocaust Research Infrastructure awards.
• Grants & Projects: PI for TRACES; co-PI for Polish Folk Art and Holocaust (DFG-NCN); co-researcher for Thinking Through the Museum (SSHRC) and Bystanding and the Holocaust (Christina Morina PI).

Her work bridges academia and public engagement, exploring contentious cultural heritages and memory transactions. She has held visiting scholar roles at the University of Chicago (2011) and Humboldt University (2022).