Katarzyna I. Wojtylak – Member-at-Large Candidate 2025
Katarzyna I. Wojtylak
University of Warsaw
Member-at-Large Candidate 2025
Dr. Katarzyna (Kasia) I. Wojtylak is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales,” University of Warsaw. She is an anthropological linguist whose work bridges linguistics and anthropology to explore how language, culture, and ecology are interwoven in the Northwest Amazon of South America. Since 2011, she has carried out long-term, community-based research in the Colombian Amazon, working closely with Murui-Muina, Bora, Ocaina, Nonuya, Muinane, Andoke, and Resígaro friends and knowledge-holders. Her research documents and supports the revitalization of highly endangered languages and highlights how language serves as a living expression of knowledge, identity, and intergenerational continuity.
Kasia’s broader interests include linguistic and cultural diversity, multilingualism, and Indigenous language rights in both South America and Europe. She is a permanent community member of Amazonicas, the international network of Amazonian linguists and anthropologists, and a co-coordinator in the Horizon Europe FOSTERLANG project, which promotes linguistic justice and digital inclusion for minority languages. She has held affiliations with James Cook University and Central Queensland University (Australia), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Netherlands), the University of Regensburg (Germany), the Jagiellonian University and the University of Warsaw (Poland).