About Us
Okinawa Research Group has been established by Dr Szymon Gredżuk and Dr Sylwia Dobkowska in February 2020. The group gathers researchers who are interested in the subject of the Ryukyu Islands, its culture, literature, and history. The group is open for the new members.
Dr Sylwia Dobkowska
Lecturer in Theatre Studies
Performing Arts Department
Institute of English and American Studies
University of Gdansk
sylwia.dobkowska[at]ug.edu.pl
Dr Szymon Gredżuk
Lecturer in Japanese Studies
Research interests: shamanism, traditional medicine, Okinawan beliefs and the perspective of cultural anthropology, in particular the anthropology of knowledge, religion and medical anthropology