Dr. Paweł Kuczyński is a sociologist specializing in the study of social movements and radicalization processes. A graduate of the University of Warsaw, he participated in the 1981 Polish-French study “Solidarity as a Social Movement,” led by Alain Touraine and Jan Strzelecki. He was a fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris and at Harvard Business School in Boston.
He coordinated the Polish component of the European Commission’s multinational research project DARE (Dialogue About Radicalisation and Equality), led by the University of Manchester and involving partners from 13 countries. He is the author of the scholarly monographs A Unique Organizational Culture: Sketches from Subjective Sociology (2021) and The Proximity of Books: How Books and Public Libraries Allow Us to Survive (Including the Pandemic) (2022), as well as the editor of The Virus of Radicalization (2023). He is also the co-author of Inflammable Society: Practices of Assisting War Refugees from Ukraine in 2022 in Poland (2023), a book awarded the Zygmunt Bauman Prize by the Polish Sociological Association in 2024.
Over the past 25 years, he has commercially implemented more than a dozen public communication and social consultation projects related to macrostructural investments in Poland, including a retention reservoir, wind farms, a sewage treatment plant, a sewage sludge incinerator, a nuclear power plant, neighborhood revitalization, and a highway.