Andrzej Turkowski is a sociologist and political scientist associated with the Robert B. Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw. In 2019 he earned his Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the University of Warsaw. His research interests include political sociology, sociology of knowledge, elites studies, Bourdieu’s field analysis, discourse analysis, and world-system analysis.

Andrzej Turkowski’s Ph.D. project was focused on reconstructing the post-1989 Polish space of opinion on Russia and the Eastern policy. His research concerned the historical origins of the most important discourses on these issues, career trajectories of the key actors shaping Polish public opinion as well as developments of the institutional landscape in the studied realm. Basing on empirical material, including a prosopographical analysis and over 50 in-depth interviews conducted with the Polish elite members, he also reconstructed main cleavages within the Polish space of opinion as well as their developments over 30 years of the Third Polish Republic.

As a Ph.D. student Andrzej conducted his research at Central European University in Budapest, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan, Polish Studies Center at Indiana University as well as at the Higher School of Economy in Moscow.

His latest article, published in East European Politics and Societies is titled “Polish Intelligentsia Totems in Elites’ Struggles for Legitimization: The Case of Jerzy Giedroyc and Poland’s Eastern Policy.”