PhD Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer
Department of Management in Digital and Networked Societies
Assistant Professor
Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor; she defended her doctoral dissertation in sociology at The New School for Social Research (2014) in New York and received the Albert Salomon Memorial Award in Sociology. She was a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Visiting Scholar at New York University. She authored such publications Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz: Marksizm a socjologia (Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2014; English edition: Marxism and Sociology: A Selection of Writings by Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, Brill, 2018, and Haymarket Press, 2019), Reshaping Poland’s Community after Communism: Ordinary Celebrations (Palgrave, 2019), or Online Tabloid Politics: Pudelek, Gawker and Mail Online (Brill, 2022). Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer is also a scholarship holder of the Minister of Science and Higher Education, Kościuszko Foundation Poland, and The New School for Social Research. She studies everyday citizen practices, information media, and politics online. Her scientific interests also include social change and everyday culture. In her scientific work, she specializes in qualitative methods such as content analysis, (n)etnography, interviews, and field studies. She has many years of experience in public speaking in Poland and abroad; due to her research focus, she is a regular commentator in Polish and international media