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Sławomir Kapralski, PhD. Educated at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Sławomir Kapralski has taught at the Centre for Social Studies since it opened in 1995.

He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Bielefeld (GFPS Fellow), at the University of Chicago (MacArthur Fellow) and at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (Mellon Fellow). He is a Recurrent Visiting Professor at the Central European University in Budapest.

His awards include the Judaica Foundation Memorial Medal (Awarded by the Judaica Foundation in Krakow, 1996) and the Central European University's "Professor of the Year" Award (1997).

His research interests focus on:

The Roma of Central and Eastern Europe;

Nationalism, Ethnicity and Identity;

Time, Space and Collective Memory;

Anti-Semitism and Polish-Jewish Relations.

Selected publications

Books:

"Democracies, Markets, Institutions: Global Tendencies in Local Contexts" Warsaw: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of Polish Academy of Sciences, 2002. (Edited)

"Reformulations: Markets, Policies, and Identities in Central and Eastern Europe" Warsaw: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of Polish Academy of Sciences, 2000. (Edited)

"The Jews in Poland" Vol. 2. Cracow: Judaica Foundation, 1999. (Edited)

"Values and Sociological Knowledge" Cracow: NOMOS, 1995.

Articles:

"Rituals of Memory in Constructing Eastern European Roma Identity".

In: "The Role of the Romanies. Images and Self-Images of Romanies/"Gypsies" in European Cultures". Edited by Nicholas Saul and Susan Tebbutt. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2003 (pending).

"Democratization in Post-Communist Poland from the Romani Point of View".

In: "Dynamics Lost? On Immaturity of Polish Democracy".Edited by: Edmund Mokrzycki, Andrzej Rychard, Andrzej Zybertowicz. Warsaw: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of Polish Academy of Sciences, 2002.

"Auschwitz: Site of Memories". "Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry." Vol. 15. 2002 (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

"Battlefields of Memory. Landscape and Identity in Polish-Jewish Relations". "History and Memory." Vol.13. No.2. 2001. (Indiana University Press)

"People of Different Times" In: "The Jews in Poland, Volume 2". Edited by Slawomir Kapralski. Cracow: Judaica Foundation, 1999.

"Nationalism in Central Europe at the Turn of Century. Between Globalization and Particularism". In: "Responsibilities and Hopes". Edited by Jiri Fuka et al. Brno: Vutium, 1998.

"Identity Building and the Holocaust: Roma Political Nationalism". "Nationalities Papers," Vol. 25, No. 2, 1997. (Carfax Publishing).