Michal Buchowski

Michal Buchowski is a Distinguished Visiting Professor for International Affairs at Columbia University where he is the first holder of the Polish Program Studies Chair. He also lectured at the University of Kansas, Humboldt University, and Rutgers University. He was a Fellow of British Council, Fulbright Foundation, Kosciuszko Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and worked as a research fellow in the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin and CNRS in Paris. His scientific interest is in modes of thought and systems of beliefs, as well as in Central European social and cultural transformations. He has published several books, among them most recently in English Reluctant Capitalists(1997), The Rational Other(1997), Rethinking Transformation(2001), and he is the co-editor of Poland Beyond Communism(2001) and The Making of the Other in Central Europe(2001). Currently he is working on issues related to the encounter of the free market and democracy with the realities of post-socialist Poland at the grass-roots level in Poland and Central Europe. (2004)

Events

March 1, 2004