Ludwika Włodek

Ludwika Włodek graduated from the Faculty of International Relations at the University of Warsaw. She is also an alumna of the Graduate School for Social Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where she earned her PhD in sociology.

At the Centre for Eastern European Studies, she heads the Central Asian specialization. Her research interests include national ideologies, identity politics, modernization and postcolonial studies.

Alongside her academic career, she works as a journalist and reporter. She is the author of several books. Her latest book, The Rebels from Afghanistan, was published in 2022 and focuses on Afghan women’s rights activists before and after the Taliban takeover.

Her book about Spiš was published in Polish in 2017.