Johana is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, the University of Oxford and a Teaching Fellow in Sociology at Warwick Foundation Programme, the University of Warwick . The main questions that drive her intellectual curiosity relate to the political use of the past in the present, to possibilities and limits of collective identity formation, and to exploring the most suitable methods and methodological positions to research these areas. Johana completed her doctoral research at the University of Oxford in 2018 with a thesis entitled Silesian Identity: the Interplay of Memory, History and Borders. She loves travelling and exploring new places, views, and people.

Savita currently works in local and global classrooms designing learning for re-examining the teaching of Humanities subjects (History, Anthropology, Philosophy) from the lens of decolonisation. She explores which questions and methods would enable critical thinking and student voice across these subjects. Savita’s aim is to curate an independent library space that explores the global diasporic South Asian historical transitions from colonial through post-colonial to de-colonised societies.