Professor Tomasz Zarycki

Professor Tomasz Zarycki

Visiting Research Fellow

Department of International History

Languages
English, French, Polish, Russian
Key Expertise
Historical sociology of politics, culture, elites and knowledge

About me

Tomasz Zarycki is a professor of sociology at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He is there a deputy director of Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies (ISS) and Head of the Center for Sociological Research at ISS. He graduated in social geography from the University of Warsaw and defended his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Silesia, in Katowice, Poland. He has also obtain the habilitation degree in sociology form Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Warsaw, Poland and the tile of professor granted by the President of the Republic of Poland.  

His two main books in English are “The Polish Elite and Language Sciences A Perspective of Global Historical Sociology” (Palgrave, 2022) and “Ideologies of Eastness in Central and Eastern Europe” (Routledge, 2014). His papers have been published in journals such as Current Sociology”, “Communist and Post-Communist Studies", “European Review”, "East European Politics and Societies", "Europe-Asia Studies", "GeoForum", "Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics", “Journal of World-Systems Research”, “Sociological Forum”, “Social Science Information”, or "Theory and Society" and several others.

Expertise Details

Central and Eastern Europe; Poland; Soviet Union; Russian Empire; global historical sociology; elites (cultural; economic and political)

Awards

Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) 2023 Bronislaw Malinowski Award in the Social Sciences for the book "The Polish Elite and Language Sciences: A Perspective of Global Historical Sociology” published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2022.

Fellowships/Grants

  • Johan Peter Falck Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala, Sweden, September 2020-June 2021 (full academic year).
  • Visiting Professor at EHESS: École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France, one month, January-February 2020 (one month).

Publications

AUTHORED BOOKS  CO-AUTHORED BOOKS 

EDITED and CO-EDITED BOOKS 

 PAPERS IN INTERNATIONAL PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS 

 PAPERS IN OTHER JOURNALS