Zabielska Karina Institute for Minority Rights Drususallee/Viale Druso, 1 39100 Bozen/Bolzano  Tel. +39 0471 055 209  Fax +39 0471 055 299  contact

PERSONAL DATA

Born in Białystok (Poland), 7 October 1980

 LANGUAGES

• Polish (mother tongue)
• German, English (fluent)
• Russian (good)
• Italian (basic)

FIELDS OF INTEREST

• Minority protection in Eastern Europe; special focus on Poland and Lithuania 
• EU-Integration of Eastern Europe

EDUCATION

PROFESSION

Junior researcher at the European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen,
Institute for Minority Rights 

• Research associate of the project "Kompetenzanalyse: Minderheiten als Standortfaktor im deutsch-dänischen Grenzland" (report avaialble in English, German and Danish) 
• Research associate of the project "TESCHEN" aiming at the creation of a network for the study and promotion of bilingualism and of Polish as a minority language in Czeski Cieszyn (Czech Republic)
• Assistant to the General Secretary of the Minority Dailies Association MIDAS 

PUBLICATIONS

• "State Language Policy versus Minority Protection (Challenges of the 'Big' Polish Minority within the 'Small' Lithuanian Majority", in: International Journal of Anthropology, 2008 (forthcoming)
• "Crossborder Cooperation in Mid-Eastern Europe and its Influence on Minorities: the Case of the Lithuanian Minority in Poland", in: European Yearbook of Minority Issues, Vol. 6, 2008 (forthcoming) 
• "Polak za Olzą czy za Olše? – problemy z implementacją prawa do ochrony języka mniejszości w Republice Czeskiej", in: Lithuania 1/2 (49/50), 2007
• "Projekt Europastadt", in: European Academy's Science magazine ACADEMIA 43, 03.2007
• with Agnieszka Malicka, "Legal Status of National Minorities in Poland: The Act on National and Ethnic Minorities as well as Regional Language", in: European Yearbook of Minority Issues, Vol. 5, 2005/6
• "Litwini w Polsce - przepisy prawne i ich praktyczne zastosowanie", in: Lithuania 1 (48), 2006