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Dr. Margaret Amaka Ohia-Nowak (pronouns: she/her) is an Assistant Professor of language, discourse and media studies at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at the Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. Her focus is on race and racism in public discourse in Poland, anti-Black racist discourses, and media representations of Black ethnic minorities in Poland. Margaret received her PhD in Linguistics on the representations of race in Polish media discourse from the University of Wroclaw (2015). She graudated from the Black Europe Summer School at Vrije University in Amsterdam (2010). She was a Fulbright scholar at the University of California at Berkeley (2012-2014). She was a Visiting Scholar at City University London (2012) and University of Amsterdam (2010-2011). She was a National Science Centre Fellow (2011-2014). She is a Board Member of the Black Europe Foundation and a co-Founder of the Alliance for Black Justice in Poland.

She has worked extensively as a DEI trainer and consultant, and a human rights/racial justice activist.

Margaret authored and co-authored lesson scenarios, educational materials and scientific publications on cross-cultural, anti-discrimination and global education topics. She has also published and presented on race and racism in contemporary public discourse, racist discourse and representations of Africans portrayed by media in Poland. 

Selected publications

Bieńkowski M., Winiewski M., Ohia-Nowak M., (2024), Rasizm wobec osób czarnych w Polsce., In: Bulska, D., Winiewski, M., Bilewicz, M. (eds.). Uprzedzenia w Polsce. Postawy a ideologia polityczna. Wydawnictwo Liberi Libri, s. 91-113 https://doi.org/10.47943/lib.9788363487645

Smith Angharad, Vaughn Leona , Toni Cela, Louis Herns Marcelin, Margaret Ohia-Nowak, Charu Hogg and Ronny Marty. 2024 Modern Slavery and Financial Exclusion: Exploring Crisis-Related Risks for Men : UNU-CPR.

Balogun, B., & Ohia-Nowak, M. (2023). Geographies of imagination: why decolonizing Polish children’s classics matters. Cultural Geographies, https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740231191533

Nowak P., Ohia-Nowak M., 2022, Simple language and the natural order of things in modern recruitment (using job advertisements as an example), "Language Guide" 8/2022, pp. 53-63.

Ohia-Nowak M. et al, 2020, Questionnaire: the visual culture of race, "View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture," 28(2020), https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2020.28.2314

Ohia-Nowak M., 2020, The word "Murzyn" as a perlocutionary speech act, "Cultural Studies Review" 3, pp. 195-212. doi: 10.4467/20843860PK.20.023.12583

Ohia-Nowak M., 2020, On the language of racism, in Racism in Polish (e-book, in Polish). HOW2, pp. 14-39.

Biegalska A., Maziarz M., Ohia-Nowak M., 2018, A model set of relations between Vocabulary Web synsets and Wikipedia articles, in: PWr e-Statistics Collection. Wroclaw University of Technology Publishing House.

Ohia-Nowak, M. 2016, In Black and White. Reflections from studies about Black people in everyday Polish language and in media discourse in Poland, Africa and Eastern/Central Europe Series, "Africa in Words", 19.12.2016.

Ohia M., 2016, Racism in public discourse in Poland. A preliminary analysis, "Edutainment" 01(2016), pp. 135-149.

Ohia M., 2016, Media narratives about the "other", in Jacek Wasilewski (ed.), Narratives in life. On the group and the individual, Warsaw: Institute of Journalism, University of Warsaw, pp. 17-42.

Ohia M., 2015, Talking about the 'stranger' - opinionated or tabloid? Analysis of press coverage of 'dark-skinned' people in Poland on the example of Simon Mol's and Maxwell Itoya's subjects, in Katarzyna Kubin (ed.), Media in a Diverse Society: ethics, pluralism and equal treatment, Warsaw: Foundation for Social Diversity, pp. 56-96.

Ohia M., 2014, Racist structures. The case of Feston and Wieslaw, in Irina Uchwanova-Szmygowa et al. (eds.), Discourse in academic perspective: materials of the international roundtable, April 3-5, 2009, Minsk, Belarus, Olsztyn: Center for East European Studies, pp. 116-120.

Ohia M., 2013, Mechanisms of racial discrimination in the Polish language system, "Humanistic Review," 5, pp. 93-105.

Ohia M., 2012, New choreography: a new dimension of stage choreography, in Małgorzata Różewicz, Milan Lesiak and Slawomir Bobowski (eds.), Between Film and Theater, University of Wrocław Publishing House, pp. 405-416.
Pietrzak W., Ohia M. 2012, All about why there is no race (conversation), in W. Pietrzak, M. Pietrzak-Uszyńska (eds.), Towards Equality. A selection of texts on equality policy. Wrocław Grapefruit Foundation, pp. 267-281.

Ohia M., 2011, Social exclusion through racial categorization. A comparative test of texts from The Independent and Gazeta Wyborcza, Youth Word, 1/(16)-2/(17) and 3/(18) - 4/(19) pp. 5-18.

Ohia M., 2010, Расистские структуры (на примере случаев Фестона и Веслава), in Дискурс в академической перспективе: материалы Междунар. круглого стола, 3-5 апреля 2009 г., Минск, Беларусь / под общ. ред. И. Ухвановой-Шмыговой и М. Сарновского. - Минск : БГУ, pp. 131-136.
Didactic and popular publications

GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS:

Fulbright Advanced Junior Research Scholarship 2012-2013, President of Wroclaw Scholarship 2012-2013, UC Berkeley Empowering Women of Color Scholarship 2012, EU Human Capital Scholarship 2011-2012, Human Capital Operational Program Research Grant 2012, PRELUDIUM Research Grant National Science Center 2011-2013, Research Grant for Young Investigators of the University of Wroclaw 2011, LLP Erasmus Scholarship 2011-2012, Scholarship of the Rector of the University of Wroclaw 2010-2014, Fellowship of The National Institute for Dutch Slavery and its Legacy 2010, Doctoral Fellowship 2010-2014, First Prize for the best master's thesis of the Performa Foundation 2009.