Julita Rękawek-Teixeira is the Research Project Administrative Coordinator of INASIA. She supports the team in the everyday organisation of the project, helping to connect scientific work with the practical structures that make research possible: planning, documentation, coordination, reporting, communication and administrative procedures.
Her role in INASIA draws on two professional paths that meet naturally in this project. On the one hand, Julita has many years of experience in project coordination, process management, procurement and teamwork in international environments. On the other, she is an archaeologist and cultural educator with a strong interest in how people in the past expressed ideas, beliefs and ways of understanding the world.
This combination allows her to support INASIA not only as an administrative coordinator, but also as someone who understands the research questions behind the project. Julita is especially interested in prehistoric art, rock art and the iconography of ancient cultures. Her broader interests focus on the beginnings of symbolic thought and human creativity, and on how archaeology can work together with cognitive studies and neuroscience to ask where art begins.
Education & Research
Julita holds an MA in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw. Her master’s research focused on archaic rock art of the Southwestern United States. She also holds a BA in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, where her research concerned the iconography of Tibetan Buddhism.
Julita has archaeological field and research experience from Poland, Syria and the United States. She participated in fieldwork at Szestno Site II – Bird Island in Poland, at Tell Qaramel in Syria, and at various archaeological sites in the Mazovia region. Between 2002 and 2007, she carried out research in the United States, collecting, documenting and analysing materials for her master’s thesis on American rock art.
Beyond INASIA, Julita is the creator of Archeopasja, an educational project devoted to archaeology, art and culture. She is also a volunteer guide at the National Museum in Warsaw, where she shares stories about selected objects in the Gallery of Ancient Art and helps visitors discover the meanings behind ancient artefacts.