Tomasz Rawski is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw. He earned his PhD. in Social Sciences from the University of Warsaw (2018). He is a political and cultural sociologist focused on the following topics: nationalism, symbolic/memory politics and nation-/state-building, with particular emphasis on Eastern Europe (including the former Yugoslavia, Poland and Russia).

Tomasz Rawski has recently published a book on Bosniak symbolic strategies of nation-building in Bosnia and Herzegovina after 1995. This book identifies and examines Bosniak official memory politics pertaining to three key events from the last armed conflict in Bosnia (1992-95): the Srebrenica Massacre, the Siege of Sarajevo, and the Battles over Mostar.

Tomasz Rawski’s other contributions to the aforementioned topics include such articles as: The Decline of Anti-Fascism? The Memory Struggle Over May 1945 in Polish Parliament (1995-2015) or Cultural Politics in (Post)Socialist Croatia: The Question of (Dis)continuity.  He has also been holding a number of international visiting fellowships, including, among others, University College London, Uppsala University, University of Zagreb and University of Sarajevo.

Personal website: http://trawski.net

Short description of a book: http://trawski.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Bosniak-Nationalism_engprom.pdf