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Zdzisław Mach - Instytut Studiów Europejskich

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Full professor

Prof. dr hab. Zdzisław Mach

Prof. dr hab. Zdzisław Mach

Office: room 523

Zdzisław Mach is a Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology, and the founder and former Director of the Institute of European Studies. 
In his academic career, Prof. Mach has been the Dean of the Faculty of International and Political Studies at the Jagiellonian University (2016-2019). He was the Rector's Proxy for International Cooperation (2012-2016), the Director of the Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University (2004-2012), Head of the Chair of European Studies (2000-2004), the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University (1993-1999) and the Director of the Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University (1991-1994). Prof. Mach has also been Professor at the Higher School of Administration in Bielsko-Biała, a former member of the Council of European Education at the Ministry of Higher Education of the Republic of Poland, and advisor to the Chief Negotiator of the Polish Government for EU Membership. He is the chairperson of the Commission on European Matters of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Major areas of interest and research

Research on cultural processes of national and European identity-shaping; nation, nationalism and ethnic minorities; migration; collective memory and cultural heritage; democracy and identity; development of the idea of Europe.

International fellowships, scholarships, and awards

  • Honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt), University of Glasgow
  • Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh
  • Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, Florence
  • Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
  • Fellow, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar
  • Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst (Decoration for Science and Art), Republic of Austria
  • Krzyż Kawalerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta) of the Republic of Poland for outstanding contributions to the development and strengthening of European integration

Teaching

  • Culture and Society in Central Europe. Dilemmas of Identity and Pluralism 
  • Cywilizacja europejska  
  • European Civilisation  
  • European Cultures and Societies  
  • Introduction to Sociology  
  • Society and the Era of Globalization  
  • Unity and Diversity of European Culture  
  • Barriers of Development in Modern Societies  
  • Europeanisation and Transformation of Collective Identities  
  • National and post-national identity. Civil society in Europe 
  • Europe in the Wider World: Younger Europe? Eastern Frontiers of Europe  

 

“Right-wing populism, Euroscepticism and neo-traditionalism in Central and Eastern Europe” in: J. Sondel-Cedarmas i F. Berti (eds.) The right-wing critique of Europe: nationalist, sovereignist and right-wing populist attitudes to the EU, New York, Routledge, 2022: 22-31.

Religion in the public sphere in Central and Eastern Europe, Z. Mach and E. Moddelmog-Anweiler (eds.), Berlin, Peter Lang, 2022

“Remembering and forgetting the culture of Others : the inclusion and exclusion of German and Jewish heritage in Poland” in: K. Kowalski, Ł. Piekarska-Duraj, B. Törnquist-Plewa (eds.) Narrating otherness in Poland and Sweden : European heritage as a discourse of inclusion and exclusion. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019:301-313.

Local Community, Power and European Integration, (ed.) Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2016.

“Democratization and the Struggle for the Recognition of Memory and Heritage in the European Frame of Reference”, [in]: K. Kowalski i B. Tornquist-Plewa (eds), The Europeanization of Heritage and Memories in Poland and Sweden, Jagiellonian University Press, Kraków 2016, p. 265–271.

“Situating the demos of a European democracy” [in:] E.O.Eriksen and J.E.Fossum (eds.), Rethinking Democracy and the European Union, London and New York: Routledge, 2012: 159-178. (with M.Góra and H-J. Trenz).

“Between old Fears and New Challenges. The Polish Debate on Europe” [in:] K. Nicolaidis and J. Lacroix (eds.), European Stories. How National Intellectuals Debate Europe, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, p. 221–240. (with M. Góra).    

“The Polish Elites’ Struggle for Recognition of the Experience of Communism in the European Union” (with M. Góra) in:   B. Tornquist-Plewa and T. Sindbaek Andersen (eds.) The Twentieth Century in European Memory. Transcultural Mediation and Reception, Leiden, Brill, 2017: 56-82.

“Constructing identities in a post-communist society: ethnic, national, and European” [in:] D. Bryceson, J. Okely, J. Webber (ed.), Identity and Networks, Berghahn, Oxford 2007, p. 54–72.

Niechciane miasta. Migracja i tożsamość społeczna, Universitas, Kraków 1998.

Symbols, Conflict and Identity. Essays in Political Anthropology, State University of New York Press, Albany 1993.