University of Warsaw, Poland
Dr Tomasz Rawski
(University of Warsaw project lead)
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Center for Research on Social Memory
Tomasz Rawski is a political and cultural sociologist. He deals mainly with issues of nationalism, symbolic/memory politics and nation-/state-building in contemporary Eastern Europe, with particular emphasis on the former Yugoslavia, Poland and Russia. He has published a book on Bosniak symbolic strategies of nation-building in Bosnia and Herzegovina after 1995, as well as several articles on these topics. Tomasz has participated in several previous research projects focused on memory studies, including Horizon2020: REPAST. He has been a visiting scholar at University College London, Uppsala University and University of Sarajevo.
Przemysław Dałek
PhD Researcher, Doctoral School of Social Sciences
Przemysław Dałek graduated in International Relations from the University of Warsaw. He is currently writing a dissertation tackling Sino-Russian relations on the example of Central Asia. The scope of his research interest includes international relations in post-Soviet space, socio-economic development, and the problem of emerging powers in Eurasia.
Dr hab. Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper
Associate Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Center for Research on Social Memory
Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper is a sociologist and social anthropologist. Her main interests are contemporary developments in ethnic and national identity and problems of social memory and tradition. Małgorzata has conducted fieldwork in Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia and in the Siberian part of Russia. She has published several articles and books on ethnic minorities in Poland, ethnic identity and social memory in post-soviet countries and on the memory of resettlements. Currently she is working on the relationship between memory and religion in local communities and on Central Europe from a postcolonial perspective.
Sara Herczyńska
PhD Researcher, Institute of Polish Culture
Sara Herczyńska graduated in culture studies from the University of Warsaw. She is a PhD student in the Section for Anthropology of the Word and a member of the Holocaust Remembrance Research Team in the Institute of Polish Culture. She is part of the Polish editorial board of Global Dialogue magazine and of mała kultura współczesna. Her PhD thesis explores representations of biographies is Polish museums. Alongside her academic work, Sara is a guide at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art.
Dr Anna Przybylska
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Sociology; Founder and head of Centre for Deliberation at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw
Anna Przybylska studied social sciences with a focus on sociology and social policy at the University of Warsaw, and media and communication at the University of Amsterdam. Her academic interests include the norms, methods and limits of deliberation as well as its use in applied projects. She was the manager of the applied project New Perspectives for Dialogue: a Model of Deliberation and ICT for Social Inclusion in Decision-Making (2014–2017). She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Copenhagen, Cultures et Sociétés Urbaines (Paris), the National University of Singapore, The Paris Institute of Political Studies and Stanford University.
She co-edited with Stephen Coleman and Yves Sintomer the book Deliberation and Democracy: Innovative Processes and Institutions and edited ICT for Dialogue and Inclusive Decision-Making.
Zofia Rohozińska
Doctoral Student, The Doctoral School for Social Science, Center for Research on Social Memory
Zofia Rohozińska is a sociologist and art historian, PhD student in the Doctoral School of Social Sciences (discipline of sociology), and a member of the Center for Research on Social Memory. Her academic interests revolve around the sociology of art, memory studies, class theory and visual culture. Her doctoral research examines the processes of remembering and forgetting in the Polish art field, focusing on the example of its changing approaches towards Socialist Realism.
Joanna Wawrzyniak
Associate Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Center for Research on Social Memory
Joanna Wawrzyniak is associate professor in sociology and director of the Center for Research on Social Memory, University of Warsaw. Sociologist and historian by training, Joanna specializes in East-Central European memory processes. Her current projects include research on memories of socialism, neoliberal transformation, and deindustrialization in Poland and contributions to collaborative research on cultural heritage and memory processes in Eastern Europe, Western Europe and East and South Asia. Joanna has long standing expertise in oral history and museum research. She has published, among others, in Heritage and Society; Memory Studies; Contemporary European History; East European Politics and Societies; and Polish Sociological Review. Her books in English include co-edited Memory and Change in Europe: Eastern Perspectives (2016); co-authored The Enemy on Display: The Second World War in Eastern European Museums (2015); and Veterans, Victims and Memory: The Politics of the Second World War in Communist Poland (2015). Her most recent co-authored book in Polish Cięcia. Mówiona historia transformacji (Cuts: Oral History of Post-Socialism, Wyd. Krytyka Polityczna 2020) won an award of POLITYKA weekly for the best historical book of 2020, and the two new co-edited volumes Regions of Memory: Transnational Formations (Palgrave) and Remembering the Neoliberal Turn (Routledge) are forthcoming in 2022. Her work was supported by grants of the European Commission, national agencies, and fellowships at several European universities. Joanna is now the vice-chair of the COST Action Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change, and she was the leader of Work Packages in Horizon 2020 projects, ECHOES and DisTerrMem. She served as the member of the Executive Committee of the Memory Studies Association (2019-2022); and was the Chair of the Program Committee of the 5th Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association ‘Convergences’, July 5-9, 2021.
Dr Agnieszka Nowakowska
Centre for Research on Social Memory
Dr Agnieszka Nowakowska is a sociologist and historian. She has conducted fieldwork in Poland and Lithuania. Her main interests are memory studies and sociology of education. Her PhD examined history teaching in Vilnius, and described the results of contact of official narratives about the past with everyday practices of memory.
