Agnieszka Kościańska

Professor
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology

Agnieszka Kościańska is Professor of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw. In 2021 and 2022, she was Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. She is the author of Odejdź. Rzecz o polskim rasizmie (Go Away: On Polish Racism, with Michał Petryk, 2022, Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej), To See a Moose. The History of Polish Sex Education (Berghahn Books, 2021, Polish edition Czarne 2017), Gender, Pleasure and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland (Indiana University Press 2021, Polish edition Warsaw University Press 2014), Potęga ciszy (The Power of silence, WUW, 2009) and (co-)editor of several volumes and journal special issues on gender and sexuality – the most recent being in English The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality in East Central Europe (with Anita Kurimay, Kateřina Lišková, and Hadley Z. Renkin, 2025); in Polish Odmieńczość. Obywatelstwo seksualne i archiwum (with Tomasz Basiuk and Jędrzej Burszta, WUW, 2024). Her work appeared in journals such as Social Research: An International Quarterly, Medical Humanities, Journal of Religious History, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Ethnologia Europaea, Focaal. European Journal of Anthropology, Sexualities, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.