Tomasz Zarycki#
| Membership Number: | 7369 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | POLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://iss.uw.edu.pl/tomasz-zarycki/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2330-4499 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/zarycki/ |
| Publication Link: | http://iss.uw.edu.pl/tomasz-zarycki/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Full Professor, University of Warsaw, R.Zajonc Institute for Social Studies
- 2012 - 2018 Associate Professor, University of Warsaw, R.Zajonc Institute for Social Studies
- 2012 - 2020 Director, R.Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw
- 2000 - 2011 Assistant Professor (adiunkt), R.Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw
- 1998 - 2000 Assistant Professor, European Institute for Regional and Local Development, University of Warsaw
- 1994 - 1998 Teaching Assistant, European Institute for Regional and Local Development, University of Warsaw
Fields of Scholarship
- Sociology of elites and politics
- Sociology of knowledge with special emphasis on the history of social sciences
- Critical sociology and discourse analysis
- Linguistic pragmatics and sociological theories of meaning
- Relational approaches and methods in social sciences
- Historical sociology of Central and Eastern European societies
- Social and political geography of Central and Eastern Europe
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) 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
- 2020 Johan Peter Falck Fellowship from the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala, Sweden, September 2020-June 2021 (full academic year)
- 2020 École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) Paris, France, Fellowship for Visiting Professor one month, January-February 2020 (one month)
- 2020 Committee of Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences; Elected member 2020-2024 and 2024-2027
- 2018 Polish Sociological Association; Chairman of the program committee of the national congress of sociology
- 2007 Andrew Mellon Foundation East-Central European Research Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Wassenaar, The Netherlands, 2007 (5 months)
- 2006 Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship (NY), Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Language, Interaction and Culture (CLIC) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 2006-2007, (5 months)
- 2004 Andrew Mellon Foundation East-Central European Research Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2004 (3 months)
- 2001 Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), SSSEES/UCL, M.B.Grabowski Fund (London) and UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London, 2001-2002 (one academic year)
- 1998 Institute for Social Research (ISR, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Fellowship for participation in the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program in Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences, 1998, (two months
- 1998 Swedish Institute Fellowship, Visiting Researcher at the Department of Social and Economic Geography, Lund University, Sweden (five months)
