Staff

Zuzanna Bogumił is an anthropologist and sociologist specializing in memory studies, with a particular focus on the memory of Soviet repressions and the entanglements between memory and religion in Central and Eastern Europe. Bogumił previously worked at the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw (2011–2020) and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2020–2024), where she led several international projects.

Agnieszka Nowakowska, PhD, is a sociologist and historian at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw. She has conducted fieldwork in Poland and Lithuania. Her primary research interests include memory studies and the sociology of education. In her PhD dissertation, she examined history teaching in Vilnius, focusing on the intersection of official narratives about the past with everyday memory practices. Currently, her research explores the impact of the war in Ukraine on historical narratives in museums.

Zofia Wóycicka is assistant professor at the Sociological Faculty of the University of Warsaw where she is currently leading the National Science Centre (NCN) research project Help Delivered to Jews during World War II and the Transnational Memory in Making. She studied history and sociology at the University of Warsaw and Jena University and received her doctoral degree at the School for Social Sciences at the Polish Academy of Sciences and at the University of Warsaw (2008).

Tomasz Rawski is a political and cultural sociologist. He deals 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 published a book on Bosniak strategies of nation-building in Bosnia and Herzegovina after 1995, as well as several articles on these topics. Tomasz participated in several research projects focused on memory studies, including Horizon2020: REPAST. He was a visiting scholar at University College London, Uppsala University and University of Sarajevo.

Małgorzata is sociologist and social anthropologist. Her main interests are ethnic and national identity and problems of social memory and tradition. She conducted her fieldwork in Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia and in the Siberian part of Russia. She 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.

Joanna Wawrzyniak is a university professor of sociology and founding director of the Center for Research on Social Memory at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw. . Her most recent work bridges oral history and museum studies, focusing on memories of socialism, neoliberal transformation, deindustrialization, and the decolonization of heritage. She is Principal Investigator, together with Jogilė Ulinskaitė, of the project MEPOST.