Jakub BOHUSZEWICZ


Visiting Scholar
Jagiellonian University Krakow

 

 

 

 

 

Jakub Bohuszewicz is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Religious Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. He holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. (2015) in Religious Studies from Jagiellonian University. In his doctoral thesis examined possession trance in Catholicism and Vodun cults from a biological-cognitive perspective (Od opętania do rytuału: Pojęcie i praktyka transu w kultach vodun i katolicyzmie). He is an anthropologist of religion working on Siberian traditional religions, the history of Russian research on shamanism, and anthropological theories of ritual. He is currently working on constructing a model of the relationship between shamanism and interclan warfare in Siberia. While at the Department in the summer semester 2025, he co-ordinates a course on "Introducing Siberian Shamanism."