Andrzej Turkowski

Andrzej Turkowski, Ph.D.

POSITION

2021 – Assistant Professor at Center for Social Change and Mobility Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS

elites studies, sociology of science, sociology of knowledge, Bourdieu’s field analysis, world-system analysis, social class, inequalities and relations of power in CEE

andrzej.turkowski@uw.edu.pl

uw.academia.edu

EDUCATION

  • 2014–’19 • PhD • Sociology • University of Warsaw
  • 2016 • Summer School “Political Constructions of Europe New Historical and Sociological Approaches,” Université Paris 1-Sorbonne/Ehess, University of Strasbourg
  • 2016 • Summer School “Cultural Memory of Europe: East and West”, Södertörn University
  • 2005–’11 • M.A. • International Relations • University of Warsaw

RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • 2021– • principal Investigator • National Science Center (Poland) •  “The Polish executive: social background, careers and resources of its members. A contribution to the sociology of the Polish field of power (1988-2020)” (695 400 PLN)
  • 2018–’20 • principal Investigator • National Science Center (Poland) • “Analysis of debates on the Polish-Russian relations from the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu’s field analysis” (72 236 PLN)
  • 2019 • project leader • The Polish-German Foundation for Academic Cooperation • “Encounters with the West that brought change. An analysis of academic mobility programs between Germany and Eastern Europe during the Cold War” (1 760 EUR)
  • 2017–’20 • team member •  National Science Center (Poland) • Sociological theory of meaning: the field of power and social sciences in processes of semiosis • Principal Investigator: prof. T. Zarycki
  • 2017,’18,’20 • Internal grants at the University of Warsaw (DSM for Ph.D. students and young scholars; microgrant IDUB)

VISITING APPOINTMENTS

  • 2022 • visiting scholar, Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, de l’Université Paris-Panthéon-Sorbonne, du CNRS, et de l’EHESS, Paris (3 months)
  • 2020 • visiting scholar, SAGE (Sociétés, Acteurs, Gouvernement en Europe), University of Strasbourg,  Strasbourg (3 months)
  • 2019 • visiting scholar, Russian and East European Studies Dept., Charles University, Prague (1 month)
  • 2018 • visiting scholar, Higher School of Economics, Moscow (1 month)
  • 2018 • visiting researcher, Polish Studies Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (6 months)
  • 2017 • visiting researcher, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (2 months)
  • 2017 • visiting researcher, Corvinus University, Budapest (1 month)
  • 2016–’17 • non-degree PhD student, Central European University, Budapest (6 months)

OTHER ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • 2021– • ad hoc reviewer, “Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne,” “Stan Rzeczy”
  • 2019– • consultant  and contributing author,  “The KARTA Center”
  • 2022 • panel organizer, “New Perspective on Elite’s Change and (Re)production: Insights from a Study of Members of Governments in Poland after 1989,”  Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
  • 2022 • workshop co-organizer (with Dr Valentin Behr), “Elite studies and prosopographical databases”, University of  Warsaw
  • 2021 • summer school organizer, “Online Summer School – Studying Elites: Case Studies and Methods,” University of Warsaw
  • 2019–’22 • team member, “Social space, fields and relationality in social research – contemporary and historical. Research network” academic mobility project funded by Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange
  • 2018–’21 • editorial assistant, “Kultura i rozwój”

FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS

  • 2019 • postdoctoral short-term fellowship in frame of the 4EU+ Alliance (Charles University in Prague)
  • 2018 • scholarship for research visit in frame of the bilateral program of University of Warsaw and Indiana University
  • 2017 • scholarship for research visit  from the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia and Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
  • 2014–’19 • scholarships for best PhD candidates at University of Warsaw
  • 2017 • scholarship for short-term researach visit from the Government of Hungary (Corvinus University)
  • 2016 • scholarship for research stay in frame of Visegrad Scholarship Program (Central European University)
  • 2013 • honorable mention in the Open Competition for Students’ and Doctoral Papers “Aktualna Nauka” organised by Polish Institute in Saint Petersburg and Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • 2022,2023 • seminar for undergraduate students ”Introduction to Social Class and Social Mobility,”  American Studies Center of the University of Warsaw

PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • 2021 • Lobbyści. Zachodni rzecznicy polskiej niepodległości [The Lobbyists. Western Advocates of Polish independence] (vol. I and II), (ed.), Warszawa: Ośrodek “KARTA”.
  • 2020 • Zmagania na peryferiach. Elity III RP o Rosji [Struggles on the Periphery. Elites of Third Polish Republic on Russia], Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Scholar.

Book chapters

  • 2022 • Od paradygmatu zależności do neoliberalizmu. Niedostrzeżona rewolucja w polskim polu nauk społecznych [From the Dependency Paradigm to Neoliberalism. An Overlooked Revolution in the Polish Social Sciences], [in:] T. Zarycki (ed.) “Polskie nauki społeczne w kontekście relacji władzy i zależności międzynarodowych”, Warszawa: WUW (with T. Zarycki).
  • 2021 • Perspektywa centrum-peryferie w analizie dyskursu polskiej polityki wobec Rosji [Center-periphery Perspective in the Analysis of the Discourse of Polish Policy Towards Russia], [in:] T. Zarycki (ed.) “Polska jako peryferie”, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Scholar.

Journal articles

  • 2023 • Making new ‘Solidarities’: The Polish intelligentsia and the lasting legacy of the historical social movement, “Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics,” [accepted for publication] (with G. Walczak).
  • 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,”  [accepted for publication] (with T. Zarycki).
  • 2021 • A Return to Prometheanism: The Space of Opinion on Polish-Russian Relations in Post-communist Poland, “Europe-Asia Studies,” published online: 21 Apr 2022.
  • 2021 • Studium marginalizacji – Andrzej Drawicz w polskiej przestrzeni opinii o Rosji [A study of marginalization – Andrzej Drawicz in the Polish space of opinion on Russia], “Kultura i Społeczeństwo,” 65(2), 43-62.
  • 2019 • Polish Intelligentsia Totems in Elites’ Struggles for Legitimization: The Case of Jerzy Giedroyc and Poland’s Eastern Policy, “East European Politics and Societies,” 33(1), 66-88.
  • 2016 • Polityka zagraniczna Polski w perspektywie podejścia systemu światowego [Poland’s foreign policy in the perspective of the world-systems approach], “Studia Polityczne,” 42(2), 193-206.
  • 2012 • Russia’s Foreign Policy after the Presidential Elections: Prospects for Cooperation with the West, “The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs,” 3/2012, 72-86. (with J. Ćwiek-Karpowicz).

Book reviews

  • 2021 • Inteligent przybrany i odrzucony — refleksje na kanwie książki Michała Przeperskiego Mieczysław F. Rakowski. Biografia polityczna [The foster and rejected intelligentsia member – reflections on the basis of Michał Przeperski’s book: Mieczysław F. Rakowski. A Political Biography],  “Kultura i Społeczeństwo,” 4, 2021.
  • 2019 • Nauka w służbie polityki wschodniej [Science in the service of Eastern policy], (P. Kowal, “Testament Prometeusza” [Prometheus’ testament]), “Res Publica Nowa,” 1,2019.
  • 2019 • The Discreet (and Long-Lasting) Charm of the Polish Nobility, (R. Smoczyński,T. Zarycki, “Totem nteligencki. Arystokracja, szlachta i ziemiaństwo w polskiej przestrzeni społecznej” [Intelligentsia totem. Aristocracy, nobility and landed gentry in the Polish social space]), “Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Social Analysis,” 9(1).
  • 2018 • Ciągłość zamiast zmiany: z historii reformowania systemu szkolnictwa wyższego w Polsce [Continuity instead of change: from the history of reforming the higher education system in Poland], (A. Zysiak, “Punkty za pochodzenie: powojenna modernizacja i uniwersytet w robotniczym mieście” [Points for Class Origin: Postwar Modernization and the University in the Working-Class City of Lodz]), “Kultura i Społeczeństwo,” 3.

Expert analysis

  • 2013 • The Role of Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Russia’s Military Posture, “Bulletin PISM no. 12 (465)“, Polish Institute of International Affairs
  • 2013 • Russia’s International Climate Policy, “PISM Policy Paper no. 27“ Polish Institute of International Affairs
  • 2012 • Russia’s Accession to the World Trade Organisation, “Bulletin PISM no. 68 (401),“ Polish Institute of International Affairs (with J. Ćwiek-Karpowicz)
  • 2011 • Poland’s EU Presidency in the Shadow of Eurozone Crisis, Carnegie Moscow Center
  • 2011 • The Polish-German Tandem, Carnegie Moscow Center

Conferences and seminars

  • 2022 • New Perspective on Elite’s Change and (Re)production: Insights from a Study of Members of Governments in Poland after 1989, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Chicago, 10-13 November, 2022.
  • 2022 • Od Wallerstein’a do Rothschild’a: Nagły zanik polskiej szkoły teorii zależności po 1989 r. jako przejaw głębszych przemian w globalnym polu nauk społecznych, XVIII Zjazd Socjologiczny [Polish Sociological Congress], Warsaw, 14-17 September 2022.
  • 2022 • The Polish Executive: Social Background, Careers and Resources of its Members, New Challenges in Field Theory Conference, University of Strasbourg, 9-10 June 2022.
  • 2021 • The Inconveniences of Putting on “Western Suits”: Europeanization at the EU’s Peripheries and the Case of Poland’s Eastern Policy, ECPR Joint Sessions Virtual Event, 17 – 28 May 2021.
  • 2021 • Is There a “Populist” Ruling Elite? Insights from Poland, The annual conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, 5-8 May, 2021 (on Zoom) (co-authored with Valentin Behr).
  • 2020 • Social Topography of Public Debates: The Polish Space of Opinion on Russia, Séminaire Général de SAGE, University of Strasburg, 11 December 2020.
  • 2019 • Dem Westen begegnen und für Wandel sorgen. Akademische Mobilitätsprogramme zwischen der Bundesrepublik und dem östlichen Europa in der Zeit des Kalten Krieges Vortrag, ZIP- Forschungskolloquium an der Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), 7 November 2019.
  • 2019 • The Polish Space of Opinion on Russia: Origins and Structures, Poland 1989: Negotiations, (Re)Constructions, Interpretations, Aleksander-Brückner-Zentrum für Polenstudien, Halle 23-25 October 2019; also presented at:
  • 2019 • 17. Ogólnopolski Zjazd Socjologiczny [17th Polish Sociological Congress], Wrocław, 11-14 2019.
  • 2019 • 14th European Sociological Association Conference, Manchester, 20-23 August 2019.
  • 2018 • Polish Studies Center’s Seminar, Indiana University, Bloomington, 12 October 2018.
  • 2019 • Polish Space of Opinion on Russia and Eastern Policy, 4th Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies, Tartu, 9–11 June 2019.
  • 2018 • Illiberal or ani-core? Poland’s conservative camp’s discourses on foreign policy from the core-periphery perspective, ISA Midwest Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, 16 – 17 November 2018.
  • 2018 • Polish Intelligentsia Totems in Elites’ Struggles for Legitimization: The Case of Jerzy Giedroyc, The 2018 Central Slavic Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, 19-21 October 2018.
  • 2018 • The Polish space of opinion on Russia and Eastern policy  theoretical assumptions and initial results, seminar in at the Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung, Regensburg, 15 February 2018.
  • 2016 • Revisiting Polish-Russian Relations from the World-Systems Perspective, First Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies, Tartu, 12-14 June, 2016.