Kazimierz M. Słomczyński. Currently professor and head of the Research Team on Comparative Social Inequality (CASIN), Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (position held since 1992), academy professor in sociology, Ohio State University (position held since 2011), and director of the Cross-National Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program (CONSIRT), Polish Academy of Sciences and Ohio State University (position held since 2008). In the past, a professor in sociology at Ohio State University (1993-2011) and recipient of significant grants from institutions in Poland (Ministry of Science and Higher Education, National Science Centre) and abroad (U.S. National Science Foundation, Research Council of Norway). Co-founder of the Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN, a study initiated in 1987/1988 and continued every five years. Co-author (with M. Kohn) of the Social Structure and Direction (Blackwell 1990, IFiS Publishers 2007) and co-editor of several books, most recently Poland: Thirty Years of Radical Social Change (Brill 2024) and Survey Data Harmonization (Wiley 2024). Published in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, and other major journals in the social sciences. Awarded for the Best Paper in the Survey Research Methods in 2017-2018 by the European Survey Research Association. Member of the Academia Europaea.
Research interests: Methodology of the Social Sciences, Survey Data Harmonization, Social Structule and Psychological Functioning, Stratification and Class Structure, Political Sociology
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