Kamil Luczaj is a sociologist specializing in migration studies and the sociology of higher education. He is an Associate Professor at the University of 艁贸d藕, Poland, where he obtained his habilitation after earning a PhD from Jagiellonian University in Krak贸w. He has held visiting appointments at the University of New Mexico, the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the University of Cambridge, the University of Illinois Urbana鈥揅hampaign, and the Corvinus Institute of Advanced Studies in Budapest. His research centers on academic migration, the academic profession, and qualitative methodologies, particularly autobiographical narrative interviewing and ethnography.
He currently serves as Principal Investigator of the project 鈥淏iography and Academic Imaginary: The Polish Intellectual Diaspora in the Autobiographies of Migrant Scholars鈥, funded by the National Science Centre Poland (2025鈥2029).The project seeks to collect diverse biographical accounts of members of the Polish academic diaspora 鈥 that is, scholars born in Poland and working abroad 鈥 in order to analyze their 鈥済eographical imaginaries,鈥 understood as mental representations of particular places and the people associated with them. Methodologically, the project is based on a multi-stage data collection strategy. The analysis encompasses: (1) published memoirs and other ego-documents of Polish academic migrants; (2) autobiographical narrative interviews conducted with Polish scholars working abroad; and (3) newly solicited memoirs by contemporary academic migrants, gathered through an open call addressed to scholar-migrants.
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