Staff
[ON SABBATICAL LEAVE AY2025/26] Associate Professor, Director of the Center for Research on Social Memory, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw
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.
Assistant Professor, Co-director of the Center for Research on Social Memory, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw
Tomasz Rawski is a political and cultural sociologist working on memory politics, wars, nationalism and socialism in contemporary Eastern Europe and beyond. He published “Pathways to Agonism. Disputed Territories and Memory” (Brill 2025, with C. Horvath) and “Bosniak Nationalism. Nation-Building Strategies After 1995” (WN Scholar 2019, in Polish), as well as several articles in renowned international journals. Tomasz took part in international projects on memory politics and wars, including H2020: DisTerrMem and H2020: REPAST. He was a visiting scholar at University College London, Uppsala University, University of Sarajevo, University of Bologna and others.
Associate Professor, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw
Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper (PI), Ph.D. hab. is a sociologist and social anthropologist. She is an associate professor at the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Sociology.
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw
Dominika works at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw. Her research and visual practice explore the role of memory, violence, and racialisation in fostering local and transnational activism and (un)belonging among diaspora, refugee, and migrant communities.
Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw
Agnieszka Nowakowska, PhD, is a sociologist and historian at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw.
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw
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 the 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).