Associate Professor (Sociology) at the Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University. Concentrates primarily on: sociology and anthropology of the city, social and urban movements, sociology of ethnicity and nation, European identities. Member of the Committee on Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Co-head of the Section of Urban Sociology Polish Sociological Association.
Positions held at the Jagiellonian University: Member of Research Discipline Council of Sociology at Jagiellonian University; Member of Faculty Council of the Faculty of International and Political Studies; Member of Institute Council of the Institute of European Studies; representative of the Jagiellonian University in the Coimbra Group Social Sciences and Humanities Working Group.
Public and expert functions: Member of the Local Government Expert Group at the Batory Foundation; Member of Program Committee of the “Kongres Obywatelski, Member of Program Committee of the Krakow Festival Office.
Visiting professor/research internship: Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy (2024), Charles University in Prague, Czechia (2024), School of Advanced Social Studies Nova Gorica, Slovenia (2023), Georg-Simmel-Zentrum für Metropolenforschung Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (2023), Univerzitet Crne Gore, Montenegro (2023), University of Belgrade, Serbia (2022), Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy (2022), Universität Trier Germany (2018), Centre for European Studies, Lund University, Sweden (2017), Uniwersytet w Zagrzebiu, Croatia (2015), Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine (2014-2015), Università degli Studi di Sassari, Italy (2014), Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (2014), Uniwersytet Sofijski im. św. Klemensa z Ochrydy Sofia, Bulgaria (2013, 2005), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (2012), Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands (2012), Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem, Budapest, Hungary, (2006, 2007, 2010, 2012), Univerzita Mateja Bela Bańska Bystrzyca, Slovakia (2011), Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, (2010).
Czerska-Shaw K., Kubicki P., (2023), Detecting Urban Resilience. Foreign Residents’ Perceptions and Experiences of Public Services in a Globalising City: A Case Study of Krakow, Central and Eastern European Migration Review, vol. 12 no 1: 225-243
Mach E., Kubicki P., (2022), European Cities in the Process of Constructing and Transmitting European Cultural Heritage, Księgarnia Akademicka Publishing
Kubicki P., (2022), Introduction to Urban Anthropology and Sociology, in: Mach E. Kubicki P., (ed.) European Cities in the Process of Constructing and Transmitting European Cultural Heritage, Księgarnia Akademicka Publishing: 15-34.
Kubicki, P., (2022), The Sociological Vacuum in Poland. Reflections 30 Years After the Transformation, in: Post-totalitarian Societes in Transformation From Systemic Change into European Integration, Mach E., Pożarlik G., Sondel-Cedarmas J.(eds.), Peter Lang: Berlin ∙ Bern ∙ Bruxelles ∙ New York ∙ Oxford ∙ Warszawa ∙ Wien: 241-261.
Kubicki P., (2020), Ruchy miejskie w Polsce, Zakład Wydawniczy NOMOS, Kraków.
Kubicki P., (2020), Inventing Urbanity: Urban Movements in Poland, “Society Register” 2020, no 4(4): 87-104.
Kubicki P., B. Gierat-Bieroń, J. Orzechowska Wacławska, (2020), The European Capital of Culture 2016 effect: how the ECOC competition changed Polish cities, Peter Lang, Berlin-Warszawa.
Kubicki P., The City and Narrating Otherness. Polish Cities and the Process of Europeanization, (2019) in: Kowalski K., Piekarska-Duraj Ł., Törnquist-Plewa B., (eds.), Narrating Otherness in Poland and Sweden. European Heritage as a Discourse of Inclusion and Exclusion, Peter Lang, New York–Oxford–Warszawa–Wien: 29-46.
Kubicki P., Social Memory in Local Poland Following Accession to the European Union (2017), in: Z. Mach (ed.), Local Community Power and European Integration, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main: 9-27.
Kubicki P., (2017), Wynajdywanie miejskości. Polska kwestia miejska z perspektywy długiego trwania, Zakład Wydawniczy NOMOS, Kraków.
Kubicki P., (2011), Nowi mieszczanie – nowi aktorzy na miejskiej scenie, “Przegląd Socjologiczny” 2011, tom LX/2-3: 135-161.
Kubicki P., (2010), Miasto w sieci znaczeń. Kraków i jego tożsamości, Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków.
Inclusive CEE: Challenges and Ukraine Refugee Integration, Visegrad+ Grants, timeframe: April 2024 - June 2025, Project Leader: Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences/Institute of Social Sciences, Principal Investigator.
The adaptation of immigrants and refugees through urban activism, within the framework of the Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at the Jagiellonian University (2022-2023), Principal Investigator.
Contested Legacies. Central and Eastern European and Southern European competing narratives on authoritarian lieux de memoire, within the framework of the Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at the Jagiellonian University (2022-2023), Co-Investigator.
The New European Bauhaus. Cities and urbanity after the pandemic, within the framework of the Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at the Jagiellonian University (2021-2022), Principal Investigator.
Shaping of the European citizenship in the post – totalitarian societies. Reflections after 15 years of EU enlargement, Programme Europe for Citizens (2019-2021), Co-Investigator.
European cities in the process of constructing and transmitting of the European cultural heritage: International curriculum for undergraduate and master students, Erasmus+ Programme (2018-2021), Co-Investigator.
Urban Movements in Poland, National Science Centre (2017-2018), Principal Investigator.
The Europeanisation of Realms of Memory and the Invention of a Common European Heritage, National Science Centre (2013-2019), Co-Investigator.
Local Poland and European integration. A decade of experiences, National Science Centre (2012-2014), Principal Investigator.
RECON Reconstituting Democracy in Europe, European Commission 6. Framework Programme, 2007-2011. Coordinator of the Research Teams: Women who define identity through their political struggle for gender equality (2007-2008), Nowi mieszczanie (2008-2011).
Ethnological Understanding of Cultural Diversity in Central European Urban Spaces (2007), Visegrad Grant, Co-Investigator.
The Square: a European Heritage, Kultura 2000 (2004-2007), Co-Investigator.