Bio

Justyna Olko is professor in the faculty of “artes liberales” at the University of Warsaw and director of its centre for research and practice in cultural continuity. She specializes in indigenous and ethnic minority history, sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language endangerment and revitalization as well as decolonizing research practices, with a special focus on nahua language and culture.

Co-editor (with Julia Sallabank) and co-author of Revitalizing endangered languages. A practical guide (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and co-editor (with Cynthia Radding) and co-author of Living with nature, cherishing language indigenous knowledges in the americas through history (Palgrave Macmillan 2023). A recipient of starting and consolidator grants from the european research council.

In 2020 she became a winner of the falling walls science breakthrough of the year in social sciences and humanities for “breaking the walls between academy and local communities in favour of linguistic diversity".