Katarzyna Krakowska

Katarzyna Krakowska is a sociologist at the University of Lodz. Researching women’s migration experiences, the social herstory of Central and Eastern Europe, and the societal consequences of the war in Ukraine, she specializes in qualitative research and narrative biographical interviews using the Fritz Schütze method. Krakowska currently lead the National Science Centre project “Ukrainian Women Aged 60+ in Refuge” and is preparing a dissertation on identity and language in the narratives of older Ukrainian refugee women in Poland. In 2023, she received the Zygmunt Bauman Prize of the Polish Sociological Association for the co-authored book A Flammable Society: Practices of Helping Ukrainian War Refugees in Poland in 2022.