Team
dr hab. Marta Bucholc, prof. UW
m.bucholc@uw.edu.pl
I am a Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology, the University of Warsaw, and Associate Researcher at the Centre de recherche en science politique, Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles. From 2015 through 2020, I held a research professorship at Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Studies “Law as Culture,” University of Bonn. Moreover, I was a visiting scholar at the universities of Jena, Cambridge, Graz, and Saint-Louis Bruxelles, as well as Bronisław Geremek Fellow of the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. My research focuses on the sociology of law and historical sociology. Besides “National Habitus Formation and the Process of Civilization in Poland After 1989: A Figurational Approach” I lead two ongoing projects ERC Consolidator Grant Abortion Figurations. Using Human Rights to Change Abortion Law and “Towards Illiberal Constitutionalism in East Central Europe: Historical Analysis in Comparative and Transnational Perspectives”, funded by Volkswagen Foundation.
dr Anna Dobrowolska (collaboration until January 2025)
anna.maria.dobrowolska@uw.edu.pl
Anna Dobrowolska is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw. She holds a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford and her research is focused on the history of sexuality, visual culture, and gender under state socialism. Her first book, Zawodowe dziewczyny: Prostytucja i praca seksualna w PRL (Warsaw, 2020), explored the history of commercial sex in post-war Poland. Her second monograph sheds light the rise and demise of the nudist movement in late socialist Poland (Nie tylko Chałupy. Naturyzm w PRL, Warsaw 2024).
dr Agnieszka Laddach (collaboration until December 2024)
a.laddach@uw.edu.pl
Agnieszka Laddach (BA, MA, and PhD in History, MA in Theology, and Licentiate in Sacred Theology – STL) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural History, Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw. She is the PI in her research project “The Polish Communist State and the Roman Catholic Church’s Power Toward the Sexual Agency of the Homosexual Priests Between 1945 and 1989” (National Science Center, no. 2021/40/C/HS3/00088). She held internships at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Universität Wien and Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona. She conducted query at the Polnische Historische Mission an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg, as well as under grants from Young Universities for the Future of Europe and Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. Laddach was awarded a prestigious Scholarship of the Minister of Science for Outstanding Young Scientists, Scholarship of Maurycy Mochnacki Foundation and Prof. Anna Stadnicka’s Scholarship, Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship Marshal Scholarship, and The Mayor of Toruń Artistic Scholarship. Laddach’s primary scholarly interests include history of sexuality and theology of sexuality and the body.
dr Waldemar Rapior
w.rapior@uw.edu.pl
Sociologist and cultural theorist with a strong interdisciplinary background and a history of collaboration with trans-disciplinary R&D media laboratory (e.g. Blast Theory, Patchingzone) and theater institutions (e.g. The Theatre Institute). Principal investigator on the art&science project “Tacit morality” founded by Polish National Science Centre that shows the impact of shared moral backgrounds on people’s moral decision-making patterns. He cooperates with the Researchers on the Border collective, which investigates the humanitarian situation on the Polish-Belarusian border. Co-author of the project “Promigration Alliances. Cooperation of grassroots initiatives with formal institutions in Poland” Refugee and animal rights activist. He’s trying to bridge the two cultures, art and science as well as activism and science.
Paweł Bagiński
.baginski3@uw.edu.pl
Paweł Bagiński is a sociologist and anthropologist of culture. At the Doctoral School of Humanities, University of Warsaw, he prepares a thesis on Polish media discourses from 1990s and 2000s about sexual harassment at the workplace. He is interested in gender, violence, labour, affects and postsocialism/neoliberalism in Poland.
Emilia Sieczka
emiliasieczka@gmail.com
Emilia Sieczka, a graduate of the University of the Arts London, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and College of Europe. A PhD candidate in sociology at the Graduate School for Social Research (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology) at the Polish Academy of Sciences. A junior researcher in the project The national habitus formation and the process of civilization in Poland after 1989: a figurational approach coordinated by Prof. Marta Bucholc at the University of Warsaw and in the project Biography & Academic Imaginary. Polish intellectual diaspora in the autobiographies of migrant scholars coordinated by Dr. Kamil Łuczaj at the University of Łodź, both funded by the National Science Centre (NCN). A research fellow at the Centre de civilisation française, Centre for Figurational Research and The Department of History of Social Thought at the University of Warsaw. A recipient of Dianne Widzinski Visiting Fellowship at the University of Michigan, Richard Pipes Scholarship, Bourse du Gouvernement français and scholarship of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She was a visiting researcher at Centre de recherche en science politique (CReSPo) at Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles. She is currently working on the thesis applying the figurational approach to the study of nationalism in post-transformational Poland based on her investigation of the school communities.
Antonina Dębska
am.debska4@uw.edu.pl
Graduate of the College of Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw. She completed postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University. PhD student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw. Third-year attorney trainee at the Warsaw Bar Association. She is the author of papers in the field of civil law. She conducts research on the impact of human rights protection on the protection of personal rights. In the project, she is responsible for legal research.
Marta Gospodarczyk
mz.gospodarczyk@uw.edu.pl
I am a doctoral student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences/Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw. My research areas are rural sociology, gender studies, and people’s history of Poland. My PhD thesis will concentrate on gendered coping strategies in Polish farming households affected by drought. I am a co-investigator and research assistant in the National Habitus project, as well as a research assistant in the ERC Project “Abortion Figurations. Using Human Rights to Change Abortion Law”
Tomasz Detlaf
t.detlaf@uw.edu.pl
I am studying for a master’s degree in Digital Sociology at the University of Warsaw, where I also received bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and Philosophy.
I have published on discourse analysis and intellectual history. I also conducted qualitative and quantitative research projects for NGOs and businesses. Currently, my main research interest is using digital methods in discourse analysis and social network analysis.
I am a student assistant in the Abortion Figurations project and a scholarship recipient in the Competition in the Scientific Field project at the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Resocialisation, University of Warsaw.
