Doctoral students

Bartosz Pergół is a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw. His research interests include the sociology of art and visual culture, women artists and textile art in the 20th and 21st centuries in Eastern Europe and Latin America. His dissertation focuses on the transformations of the art field intertwined with political and social upheavals, and the materiality of women weavers’ lives and work in Poland and Argentina in the 1980s and 2000s. Supervisor: Prof. Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw).

Brunon Roch Kuryło is a first-year doctoral student at the Doctoral School of Social Science at the University of Warsaw. He is a sociologist and historian of ideas. His main research interests include the historical development of political and social thought (especially Polish communism), post-war power structures, and Central-East Europe intellectual history. His project, tentatively titled “Marxist Confrontations and Political Practices 1945-1956: Structuration of the Social Sciences in Post-war Poland” is supervised by Prof. Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw).

Paweł Downarowicz is a first-year doctoral student at the Doctoral School of Social Science at the University of Warsaw. His dissertation, tentatively titled “Trade Unions as Mnemonic Actors. Comparative Case Study of Poland, Ukraine, and East Germany” is supervised by Prof. Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw).

Michalina Musielak is a PhD candidate at Center for Research on Social Memory at University of Warsaw. Researcher in Zofia Wóycicka’s NCN grant Help Delivered to Jews during World War II and Transnational Memory in Making where she conducts a comparative audience study in Poland and Germany.

Emina is first year doctoral student at the Doctoral School of Social Science at the University of Warsaw. She is clinical psychologist and psychotherapist with ten years of work experience at the Institute for Psychological and Social Protection, University Clinical Center Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Her research project focuses on the intergenerational transmission of memory within families of those who lived through the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), 1992-1996. Supervisors: Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw), Chris Hewer (Kingston University).

Zofia is the first year doctoral student at the School of Social Science, University of Warsaw. Her project is tentatively titled “Socialist Realism 1951-2021: The Genealogy of Remembering and Forgetting in the Polish Field of Art”. Socialist Realism might have ended as a dominant doctrine of cultural politics in Poland in the first half of the 1950s, but it was only then that its legacy in the field of art and art history began to take shape.  Dissertation supervisors: Prof. Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw), Dr. Piotr Słodkowski (Academy of Fine Arts).