Tomasz Zarycki is professor and director of Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology and a “habilitation” degree from the Institute for Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His main fields of interest include the sociology of politics, culture, knowledge and memory as well as social and political geography of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, with particular emphasis on Poland and Russia. He works mainly in the paradigm of critical sociology, relational, in particular, inspired by the works of Pierre Bourdieu. His research focuses on the issues of elites, political cleavages in Poland and other countries of Central and Eastern Europe, theory of discourse, as well as concepts of cultural and social capital.Hislatest book in English is Ideologies of Eastness in Central and EasternEurope (Routledge, 2014).