Agnieszka Laddach

Assistant Professor
Institute of Polish Culture

Agnieszka Laddach is a historian and a theologian. She is assistant professor at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw. She is the PI in the research project “The Polish Communist State and the Roman Catholic Church’s Power Toward the Sexual Agency of the Homosexual Priests Between 1945 and 1989” (National Science Center, no. 2021/40/C/HS3/00088), and the investigator in the project “National Habitus Formation and the Process of Civilization in Poland After 1989: A Figurational Approach” (National Science Center, no. 2019/34/E/HS6/00295). Laddach had research stays at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Universität Wien and Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona. She conducted the query at the Polnische Historische Mission an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg, as well as as a grantee of Young Universities for the Future of Europe and Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. In 2024, Laddach was awarded the prestigious Scholarship of the Minister of Science for Outstanding Young Scientists, as well as a Scholarship of Maurycy Mochnacki Foundation, Prof. Anna Stadnicka’s Scholarship, Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship Marshal Scholarship, and The Mayor of Toruń Artistic Scholarship. Laddach’s primary scholarly interests include history of sexuality and theology of sexuality and the body.