Maria Eleonora Hebisz graduated from the Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan in 2005. Subsequently, she took up the doctoral course at the Faculty of Philosophy and History of the University of Lodz. She graduated therefrom in 2013 at the Faculty of International Studies and Political Science. Her doctoral thesis was ‘Educational Politics and Multiculturalism in Peru. Case Study’. She is a member of the Polish Union of Fine Artists, the Greater Poland Union of Sculptors, and the Polish Association of Latin American Studies.

Practices and scholarships: field trips to Peru in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, and 2014; field trips to Mexico (2009), Argentina (2014), and Chile (Scholarship of the Polish Foreign Ministry in the framework of the contest organized by the foundation ‘Partners Polska’ in 2010 and participation in the scientific project financed by the National Commission of Scientific and Technical Research – CONICYT in 2014); study work in the Institute of Peruvian Studies in Lima (2004-2009), the Institute for the Study of Americas in London (2007-2008) and the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin (2008-2012).

Her professional interests include visual anthropology, relations between arts and politics, educational politics, education through arts, multicultural and intercultural education.