I am a Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology, the University of Warsaw, and Associate Researcher at the Centre de recherche en science politique, Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles. From 2015 through 2020, I held a research professorship at Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Studies “Law as Culture,” University of Bonn. Moreover, I was a visiting scholar at the universities of Jena, Cambridge, Graz, and Saint-Louis Bruxelles, as well as Bronisław Geremek Fellow of the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. My research focuses on the sociology of law and historical sociology. Besides Abortion Figurations, I lead two ongoing projects: “National Habitus Formation and the Process of Civilization in Poland After 1989: A Figurational Approach” funded by Poland’s National Science Centre, and “Towards Illiberal Constitutionalism in East Central Europe: Historical Analysis in Comparative and Transnational Perspectives”, funded by Volkswagen Foundation (https://il-liberal.uni-jena.
Recent publications:
Established-Outsiders Relations in Poland: Reconfiguring Elias and Scotson, Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias (2024).
Abortion Law and Human Rights in Poland: The Closing of the Jurisprudential Horizon. Hague J Rule Law, 14, 73–79 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40803-022-00167-9
The Anti-LGBTIQ Campaign in Poland: The Established, the Outsiders, and the Legal Performance of Exclusion. Law & Policy, 44(1) 4–22 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1111/lapo.12183
Schengen and the Rosary: Catholic religion and the postcolonial syndrome in Polish national habitus, Historical Social Research, 45(1) 153-181 (2020).
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.45.2020.1.153-181
I am a human rights law scholar who has published in several journals such as Feminist Legal Studies, Human Rights Law Review and International Journal of Constitutional Law. Before joining the University of Warsaw, I worked at several universities, including Yale (US), Ghent (Belgium) and Sheffield Hallam (UK). I was a fellow at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and was involved in various submissions and third-party interventions before the CEDAW Committee and the European Court of Human Rights. I was a visiting scholar at Emory Law School, Melbourne Law School, CEU Democracy Institute, and most recently, at Essex Centre for Ideology and Discourse Analysis.
Recent publications:
Peroni, ‘Mobilising in Times of Gender Equality Backsliding: International Human Rights Responses to Anti-Gender Discourse’ (2024) 20(3) Utrecht Law Review 42–55. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36633/ulr.1080
Peroni, “Lo Público y lo Privado, Dicotomías de Género y Re-privatización de las Mujeres en el Parlamento,” Debate Feminista (accepted for publication in September 2022)
Peroni, “Los Estereotipos en el Derecho Antidiscriminatorio: Comentario,” 28(1) Revista Discusiones (2022) 71-84 https://doi.org/10.52292/j.dsc.2022.2868
Niemi, Peroni and Stoyanova (eds.), International Law and Violence Against Women: Europe and the Istanbul Convention (Routledge 2020)
Peroni, “The Protection of Women Asylum Seekers under the ECHR: Unearthing the Gendered Roots of Harm,” 18(2) Human Rights Law Review (2018) 347–370 https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngy005
Peroni, “The Borders that Disadvantage Migrant Women in Enjoying Human Rights,” 36(2) Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (2018) 93-110 https://doi.org/10.1177/0924051918771229who
I am a legal expert and researcher. I have worked for several NGOs and international organisations including Make Every Woman Count (MEWC), Women’s Link Worldwide, the Council of Europe, the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations in New York. My doctoral thesis was conducted at the Law Faculty of Aristotle University and co-supervised by Uppsala University. My working languages are Greek, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
Recent publications:
Books
Intersex Rights. Living between sexes , Springer, 2019, DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-27554-9.
Queer discriminations: A guide for legal experts , Greek Academic Electronic Books and Manuals-Kallipos, co-authored with Anestis Kastergiou and funded by the National Technical University of Athens, 2024 DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-999
Chapters in books
Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law- A Practicioner’s Guide , eds. Zelle, Wilson, Adam, Greene, Chapter 20 “Brazil”, Wolter Kruwer, 2020, ISBN: 9781543820683.
Articles:
Intersex Rights in the Western Balkans and Greece, Annals Belgrade Law Review, 2024, 72 (3), DOI: 10.51204/Anali_PFBU_24303A
From Intersex Activism to Lawmaking: The Legal Ban of Intersex Genital Mutilations (IGM) in Greece, Social Sciences Journal, MDPI, Soc. Sci. 2024, 13(4), 221; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13040221
Intersex masculinity and the right to self-determination (in Greek) , Volume Dimensions of Masculinity, Papanis E., Bouna A. (eds), Idiepia, 2020, ISBN: 978-618-5471-19-4.
Intersex athletes: invisible victims in the language of gender-based violence, Agenda Feminist Journal, Routledge, Taylor & Francis group https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2019.1706987
Raising Indigenous women’s voices for equal rights and self-determination, New England Journal of Public Policy, Volume 31, Issue 2 Special Issue: ICO, Article 9, University of Massachusetts https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent. cgi?article=1759&context=nejpp
Make Every African Woman Leader Count , Agenda Feminist Journal, Routledge, Taylor & Francis group, DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2019.1605835
https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2019.1605835, Published online: 24 May 2019
I received my MSc in Sociology from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in 2021. In addition to my current role as a research assistant in the Abortion Figurations project, I am also pursuing my doctoral research at the UvA, which focuses on anti-gender mobilizations in the Netherlands. In 2024, I joined the Advisory Board of the Dutch journal Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies.
Recent Publications:
Bucholc, Marta and Iskra de Vries (spring 2025) [forthcoming]. “The back-and-forth of abortion debates in Poland: towards a historical understanding of the misrecognition gambit by the National Catholic Right.” Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften.
I am a Colombian sociologist and activist. I have a degree in Sociology and a specialization in Public Policy from the National University of Colombia, and a Master’s degree in in Spain and Poland. I am a PhD candidate in sociology at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw.
I have over five years of experience in research on women’s human rights, particularly violence against women in the contexts of war and transition towards peace, women’s human rights defenders, and their political participation.
Recent publications:
Revolución feminista en Irán: experiencias de solidaridad transnacional con Abya Yala. Revista Emancipa. 2022.
Measuring Progress towards Agenda 2030: Telling Stories with Statistics for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). SDG 5: Gender Equality Participation of Women in National Parliaments: Iceland’s Emblematic Case. 2022.
La Marcha de los turbantes: mujeres y diásporas de Resistencia. 2022. CESMECA. ISBN tomo 3: 978-607-543-162-8.
20 years after Resolution 1325, women’s organizations review its implementation in Colombia during 2019. 2020. ISBN: 978-958-53226-0-8 ed: A. Impresores S.A.A , v. , p.261 – 267, 2020.
The pandemic before the Covid: violence against women and girls in 2019 and 2020 in Colombia, Sisma Mujer. 2020
TOMASZ DETLAF
t.detlaf@uw.edu.pl
I am a doctoral student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences/Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw. My research areas are rural sociology, gender studies, and people’s history of Poland. My PhD thesis will concentrate on gendered coping strategies in Polish farming households affected by drought. I am a research assistant in Abortion Figurations Project and I am also a Co-Investigator in the National Habitus project.
Agnieszka Nowakowska
nowakowskaa@is.uw.edu.pl
I manage the Abortion Figurations project. I specialize in sociology and history and my own research focuses on social memory and Polish-Lithuanian relations.
