Marta Bucholc

Associate Professor
Faculty of Sociology

Marta Bucholc is associate professor of sociology at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw. She completed her habilitation in sociology at the University of Warsaw in 2014, following a doctorate in sociology (2006) and master’s degrees in sociology (2000), philosophy (2003), and law (2004). She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator project “Abortion Figurations: Using Human Rights to Change Abortion Law” (2022–2027). She leads the National Science Centre-funded SONATA BIS project “National Habitus Formation and the Process of Civilization in Poland After 1989: A Figurational Approach” (2020–2025); she also serves as Polish Principal Investigator for the Volkswagen Foundation project “Towards Illiberal Constitutionalism in East Central Europe” (2021–2025). Since 2023, she has been Deputy Workgroup Leader in the COST Action CA22121 on “Rising Nationalisms, Shifting Geopolitics, and the Future of European Higher Education/Research Openness”. Her research interests encompass socio-legal studies, sociological theory, human rights, and the sociology of knowledge. Her recent publications include “Legal Governance of Abortion: Interdependencies and Centrifugal Forces in the Global Figuration of Human Rights,” Historical Social Research 49.2/2024: 133-155, and “Dynamics of Gender Relations: Process-Sociological Perspectives”, Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias, coedited with Stefanie Ernst and Valerie Dahl (appears in May 2025). More information: https://ws.uw.edu.pl/