Anna Wylegała

Biography

Anna Wylegała is a sociologist and Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Her work focuses on the social history of World War II and the immediate postwar period. She is also interested in the qualitative methodology of social research, oral history, and memory studies. She is author of Displaced Memories: Remembering and Forgetting in Post-War Poland and Ukraine (2019) and Był dwór, nie ma dworu. Reforma rolna w Polsce [There was an estate, there is no estate anymore. Agricultural reform in Poland] (2021). She has also co-edited two other volumes: The Burden of the Past: History, Memory and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine (2020), and No Neighbors’ Lands: Vanishing Others in Postwar Europe (2023). Currently, she is a leader of the Polish part of the “24.02.22, 5 am: Testimonies from the War” project, focused on collecting the oral history of Ukrainian refugees after 2022.