Katarzyna Wojnicka is Associate Professor of Sociology and works as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Work Science at the University of Gothenburg. She is also Editor-in-chief for NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies. In the past, she has held postdoctoral positions at the Center for European Research at the University of Gothenburg, Leeds University, and Humboldt University of Berlin. She also worked as researcher at DeZIM (Deutsches Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung) and at Dissens – Institut für Bildung und Forschung e.V. in Berlin. She studied sociology and gender studies in Poland, Germany, the US, and Spain.

While her interests are wide – sociology of gender, critical studies on men and masculinities, social movement studies, migration studies, and European studies –puzzles of masculinities are a big chunk of her scholarly work. Her PhD thesis, from Jagiellonian University in Kraków, was on men’s social movements in Poland. She founded the first course on the sociology of masculinities in Polish academia, and is co-editor of one of the few sociological books on men and masculinities in Poland, as well as of three special issues on men and masculinities research in Europe and beyond. She has worked on over a dozen research projects on gender and men and masculinities issues and published over 50 scientific papers. No surprise, then, that she has a website called Dr. K and the Men.

Currently, she continues working on puzzles of masculinities (currently in two research projects funded by the Swedish Research Council, one on European fathers’ activism and one on transnational bachelors), but she has started new work on European queer memorials. ‘From Homomonument to HBTQI memorial in Gothenburg’ studies citizens’ perceptions of the first Swedish queer monument, which will be installed in Gothenburg in 2023, and its connection to the broader European context.

More information about her current projects can be found here.