Barbara Bossak-Herbst, PhD hab., is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw. Her interests include urban studies, visual culture, horse racing, and multispecies relations. To date, she has published two books: ‘Warszawska enklawa. Świat wyścigów konnych na Służewcu’ [Warsaw Enclave. The Social World of Horse Racing at Służewiec] (2020) and ‘Antropolis. Współczesny Gdańsk w wymiarze symbolicznym’ [Antropolis. Contemporary Gdańsk in a Symbolic Dimension] (2009). She publishes, among others, in ‘Space and Culture’, ‘Memory Studies’, ‘Journal of Urban Affairs’, and ‘International Review for the Sociology of Sport’. She is also the author of a feature-length ethnographic film on the social world of horse racing in Poland, ‘450 Kilos Dreams’ (2018).