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