Center for Sociological Research – Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies

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HEAD OF THE CENTER

Tomasz Zarycki, Ph.D.

RESEARCH TEAM

RECENT RESEARCH GRANTS

Research grant from the National Science Center (NCN): Mosaic Parliaments: The Post-Imperial Field of Power in the Second Polish Republic, Greater Romania, and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes after World War I (2023-2026) [OPUS 23]
Research grant from the National Science Center (NCN):”The Polish bourgeoisie and its symbolic heirs: The genealogical roots of the Polish and Jewish economic elite and its ideological heritage in the contemporary social space of the intelligentsia”
Research grant from the National Science Center (NCN). Project title “Sociological theory of meaning: the field of power and social sciences in processes of semiosis” (Ku socjologicznej teorii znaczenia: pole władzy i nauki społeczne w procesach semiozy) [2016-2020]
Research grant from the National Science Center (NCN). Project title “Duality of the peripheral science system: case study of the political science in Poland” (Dualność peryferyjnego systemu nauki: studium przypadku nauk politycznych w Polsce). [2013-2016]
Research grant from the Polish Ministry of Science. Project title: “Critical analysis of the Polish discourses on “East”” (Krytyczna analiza polskich dyskursów o wschodzie) [2009-2012].
Research grant from the Polish Ministry of Science. Project title: “Symbolic strategies of compensation of peripheral status. An Interdisciplinary analysis of the Polish regional and national identity discourse in the dimension of >dependence on the centre<”. (Symboliczne strategie kompensacji peryferyjności. Interdyscyplinarne studium polskich dyskursów tożsamości regionalnej i narodowej w wymiarze ‘zależności od centrum’) [2006-2008].
Research Grant from the State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN, Warsaw), Project title: “Cultural capital and the reproduction of intelligentsia in Poland and Russia“. (Kapitał kulturowy a reprodukcja inteligencji w Polsce i w Rosji) [2003-2006].

CONFERENCES

Workshop “(Post)colonialism and Race in Central and Eastern Europe (Part Two)”, Warsaw, 12-13 March 2026, Programme
Workshop “Navigating Research Challenges on Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus”, Warsawa, 24-25 October 2025, Organized by the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia at the University of Michigan and the University of Warsaw’s Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Research.
Research workshop “Homology in field analysis (II): Theoretical and methodological advancements in the study of homologous relations“, Warsaw, May 23th and 24th 2024.
Seminar “Social network and social field: Different methods, metaphors or similar relational visions of the social world?”, Warsaw, June 7th, 2019. Warsaw ISS. Programme.
Conference “„International Circulations of Knowledge and Culture” in Paris, October, 29-30, 2018 program
Conference “Poland as Peripheries”, December, 10, 2014 Detailed programe in Polish
Conference “Peripheriality of countries and regions: dimensions of dependence and authonomy“, December 4, 2013: Detailed programe in Polish
Conference “Eastern Poland and Orientalism”, May 31, 2012. Detailed programe in Polish

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Zarycki, Tomasz (2022) The Polish Elite and Language Sciences: A Perspective of Global Historical Sociology, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Szumski, Jakub, and Tomasz Zarycki (2026) The First “Unmodern” Nation: Germany and Poland’s Imperial Exclusion from Modernity. European Journal of Social Theory, 29(2): 271-294 https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13684310251367365
Zarycki, Tomasz (2023) Maria Renata Mayenowa and the Forgotten Legacy of Polish Theory of Literature and Poetics. Slavonic and East European Review, 101(3): 401–429.
Turkowski, Andrzej & Tomasz Zarycki (2023) From Wallerstein to Rothschild: The Sudden Disappearance of the Polish School of Dependency Theory after 1989 as a Manifestation of Deeper Trans-Formations in the Global Field of Social Science, Journal of World-Systems Research, 29 (1): 149-173, doi: 10.5195/JWSR.2023.1135.
Zarycki, Tomasz, Smoczyński, Rafal, & Warczok, Tomasz (2021) Cultural Citizenship without State: Historical roots of the modern Polish citizenship model, Theory and Society, vol.51 (2), p.269-301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-021-09465-x
Smoczyński, Rafał & Zarycki, Tomasz (2021) The Extended Family: Descendants of Nobility in Post-communist Poland, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 54 (4), 2021, pp. 157–75. https://doi.org/10.1525/j.postcomstud.2021.54.4.157
Zarycki, Tomasz (2020) Crises of the communist and neoliberal orders 30 years later: Structural comparison of Poland 1975 and 2019. Social Science Information. vol. 59(3), p. 484–504.
Marzec, Wiktor , ‘The Revolution That Did Not Happen. Labor Insurgency in Late Russian Poland,’ International Labor and Working Class History, online first 2024:1-22. doi:10.1017/S0147547924000152 .
Marzec, Wiktor, ‘Making Basic Law in a Post-imperial State. Diffusion, Adjustment and Legal Cunning in the Constitutional Debate on Ethno-cultural diversity in Poland 1919-1922,‘ Ab Imperio, 2023 no. 4, pp 155-188.
Marzec, Wiktor, ‘From Empires of Nations to the Nation State of Minorities: The Conceptual History of National Minority in Russian Poland and the new Polish State 1900-1922,‘ Contributions to the History of Concepts 2023, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 1-27.
Marzec, Wiktor, ‘A sub-imperial realm amidst the global parliamentary moment. Legislative imaginations of Russian Poland, 1905-18,’ Parliaments, Estates and Representation 2022, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 253-268.
Marzec, Wiktor ‘Landed Nation. Land Reform and Ethnic Diversity in the Interwar Polish Parliament,’ Nationalities Papers, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 929-949,
Marzec, Wiktor ‘One of the Oldest States in Europe Has Never Suppressed Any Nation.’ The Minority Treaty, Nationalist Indignation and the Foundations of Interwar Ethnic Democracy in Poland,’ Nations and Nationalism 2021, No. 27, pp. 1080–1096.
Behr, Valentin (2018) Histoire du temps présent et politique en Pologne, Les Cahiers Sirice, vol. 21, no. 2, 2018, pp. 121-137.
Behr, Valentin (2018) When Local Memory Confronts State Historical Policy: Staging Edward Gierek’s Life in Sosnowiec ,Cultures of History Forum, 3 września 2018.
Behr, Valentin (2018) Pologne: l’Europe du PiS, Regard sur l’Est, 25 czerwca 2018.
Dębska Hanna Warczok Tomasz, Sakralizacja i profanacja. Trybunał Konstytucyjny jako struktura mityczna, Państwo i Prawo, nr 5/2018, s. 63-74.
Marzec, Wiktor (2018), ‘Socialisms in the Tsarist Borderlands. Poland and Finland in a Contrastive Comparison 1830–1907’, Contributions to the History of Concepts 2018, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 22-50 (Risto Turunen), SJR 0,12;
Turkowski A. (2018), Ciągłość zamiast zmiany: z historii reformowania systemu szkolnictwa wyższego w Polsce (recenzja z: Agata Zysiak. Punkty za pochodzenie: powojenna modernizacja i uniwersytet w robotniczym mieście), Studia Socjologiczne, 2018, no. 3(230), p. 207-212
Warczok, Tomasz, & Tomasz Zarycki (2018) Wymiary zależności a formy autonomii i autarkii polskiej politologii: Odpowiedź na komentarze. Nauka i Szkolnictwo Wyższe 1(51):183-196.
Warczok, Tomasz, & Tomasz Zarycki (2018) Polskie nauki polityczne w perspektywie globalnej: paradoksy ewoluującej peryferyjności. Nauka i Szkolnictwo Wyższe 1(51):143-161.
Warczok, Tomasz, & Tomasz Zarycki (2018) Polish Political Sciences in a Global Context. (in:) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, edited by W. R. Thompson. http://politics.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-872: Oxford University Press.
Zarycki, Tomasz. (2018). Etosy regionalne a tożsamość narodowa – pole gry. (in:) J. Szomburg & M. Wandałowski (eds.) Polskie etosy regionalne i ich znaczenie z perspektywy ogólnonarodowej, Gdańsk: Instytut Badań nad Gospodarką Rynkową, pp. 13-21.
Zarycki, Tomasz. (2018). Kongresówka – etosowy triumf inteligencji. (in:) J. Szomburg & M. Wandałowski (eds.) Polskie etosy regionalne i ich znaczenie z perspektywy ogólnonarodowe, Gdańsk: Instytut Badań nad Gospodarką Rynkową, pp. 67-72.
Zarycki, Tomasz (2018) Poland and the East, (in:) M.Moskalewicz & W. Przybylski, W. (eds) Understanding Central Europe. London, Routledge. pp. 81-85.
Zarycki, T. (2018) ‘Punkty za inteligenckość: Agaty Zysiak rekonstrukcja historii Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego a rola PRL w umocnieniu inteligenckiej hegemonii’, Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 1/2018231-250.
Zysiak, A., Kaźmierska, K., Piskała, K. Śmiechowski, K. (2018) From Cotton and Smoke: Łódź – Industrial City and Discourses of Asynchronous Modernity 1897-1994, Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego.
Zysiak, A., Przedwojnie i powojnie – podzielony świat w wizji modernizacji powojennej prasy codziennej (Łódź 1945–1948), „Przegląd Socjologiczny” vol 67 No 4 2018, ss 37-57
Zysiak, A., (Post-) Soviet Sociologies, Serendipities 3, no. 1 October 11, 2018, ss 42–47 Rozdziały w monografiach
Zysiak, A., Postwar Modernization and the University for the Working Classes in Poland [w:] Social Sciences in the Other Europe since 1945, red. Victor Karady, Adela Hincu, Budapest: Pasts, Inc., Central European University, 2018 ss 29-51;
Zarycki, Tomasz, Rafał Smoczyński & Tomasz Warczok (2017), The roots of the Polish culture-centered politics: towards a non-purely-cultural model of cultural domination in Central and Eastern Europe. East European Politics and Societies, vol.31 (2), p. 360-381. PDF
Zarycki, Tomasz (2017) For a Relational Critical Discourse Analysis. Stan Rzeczy / State of Affairs, No. 1(12), pp. 303-28.