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.