Paweł Bagiński
Widzinski Research Fellow, Winter 2025
Paweł Bagiński is a PhD Candidate at the Doctoral School of Humanities, University of Warsaw and a junior researcher in the project “National Habitus Formation and the Process of Civilization in Poland After 1989: A Figurational Approach” led by Prof. Marta Bucholc and funded by the Polish National Science Centre. His dissertation is on Polish media discourse from the 1990s and 2000s about sexual harassment in the workplace. He is interested in gender, violence, labor, and postsocialism/neoliberalism in Poland. Bagiński was a visiting researcher at the Gender Studies Department, Central European University in Vienna. He received his BA in sociology and MA in cultural studies from the College of Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences.
Jowita Baran
Widzinski Research Fellow, Winter 2024
Jowita Baran is a sociologist and Ph.D. candidate at Krakow’s Jagiellonian University. She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation on expressing national identity through clothing/fashion. Her master’s thesis—on the expression of gender by female activists of nationalist organizations—earned the Best Master’s Thesis Award from the Polish Sociological Association and the Best Master’s Thesis Award on Gender Studies from the Polish Gender Society.
Ewa Klekot
Widzinski Senior Fellow, Winter 2024
Ewa Klekot is a cultural anthropologist, translator, and curator. Currently assistant professor at SWPS University’s Design Institute, she previously lectured at the School of Form and the University of Warsaw. She earned M.A.s in archaeology and ethnology and holds a Ph.D. in art studies. She is interested in an interdisciplinary combination of liberal arts and social sciences with design and artistic projects, both in research as well as in education. Her current area of research concerns the anthropology of manufacturing and related cognition modes—skills, embodied knowledge, materials, and processes—as well as manufacturing traditions versus intangible heritage. She also practices anthropological reflection on art, especially the social construction of folk art and heritagization through monuments and museum exhibits. She serves as a member of the City of Warsaw’s Council of Intangible Heritage, as well as on the Council of Monuments at the city’s historic monuments preservation office.
Małgorzata Łukianow
Widzinski Senior Fellow, Winter 2024
Małgorzata Łukianow works as an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Warsaw and at the Center for Research on Social Memory. She previously was an assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a research assistant at Chemnitz University of Technology. She serves as co-chair of the Polish regional group of the Memory Studies Association. She is co-editor (with Anna Wylegała and Sabine Rutar) of the volume No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and the monograph on personal documents from the pandemic, Pamiętniki Pandemii [Pandemic Diaries] (Krytyka Polityczna, 2022). She is interested in memory studies, and sociology of knowledge and culture.
Agnieszka Mrozik
Widzinski Senior Fellow, Winter 2025
Agnieszka Mrozik is an associate professor of literary studies at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is affiliated with two research units—the Center for Cultural and Literary Studies of Communism and the Women’s Archive. She was a fellow of the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena (2017), the Institute for Advanced Study at CEU (2018/19), and the DAAD program at the University of Hamburg (2019). She was recently a guest professor at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) (2023/24). Mrozik is the author of Architektki PRL-u: Komunistki, literatura i emancypacja kobiet w powojennej Polsce [Female Architects of the Polish People’s Republic: Communist Women, Literature, and Women’s Emancipation in Postwar Poland] (Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, 2022) and Akuszerki transformacji: Kobiety, literatura i władza w Polsce po 1989 roku [Midwives of the Transformation: Women, Literature, and Power in Post-1989 Poland] (Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, 2012). She has co-authored and co-edited several collective volumes, including Reassessing Communism: Concepts, Culture, and Society in Poland, 1944–1989 (CEU Press, 2021).
Emilia Sieczka
Widzinski Research Fellow, Winter 2025
Emilia Sieczka is a PhD candidate in sociology at the Graduate School for Social Research (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology) at the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is a junior researcher in the project “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). Her dissertation applies a figurational approach to the study of nationalism in post-transformational Poland based on her investigation of school communities. Sieczka is a graduate of the University of the Arts London, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), and the College of Europe. She is 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.
