Agata Bachórz
Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gdańsk, and researcher at the Pomeranian Centre for Research on Culture. Holds a PhD in sociology. Member of the Polish Sociological Association.
She has been involved in international and inter-institutional research collaborations, including a joint project with the University of Iceland entitled Leisure practices and perception of nature. Polish tourists and migrants in Iceland, as well as research conducted by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN) in Warsaw: Reinventing “Polish food” in the cosmopolitan foodscape. She is the co-author of the book The Pierogi Problem: Cosmopolitan Appetites and the Reinvention of Polish Food (with Fabio Parasecoli and Mateusz Halawa, University of California Press, 2025), which explores the contemporary reconfiguration of Polish foodways in a global context. She has also extensive experience working with cultural institutions on research projects focused on cultural participation.
Her research interests include food culture and food heritage, cultural participation and everyday practices, tourism, processes of cultural change and modernization, and the social life of traditions in post-socialist societies.



