Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies

Bronislaw Misztal, Ph.D.

Dr. Misztal is Ordinary Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department. He has received a habilitated doctorate (Dr.hab.) and a Ph.D. in sociology from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He continued his post-graduate education at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales of Paris, Centre d’Études des Mouvements Sociaux.

He has taught and conducted research at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, The Claremont Colleges, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universite Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, University of Bremen, Universitá Cattolica de Milano, Cornell University and Jagiellonian University. He has been the president of the Research Committee 48 on Social Movements, Social Change and Collective Action of the International Sociological Association (ISA).

Among Dr. Misztal’s research interests are topics related to social movements, precipitated social change, and the economic and political underpinnings of macro-social processes. On these issues he has conducted research in Cuba, France, Germany, Italy and Poland. He has also directed a project of comparative research on patterns of social concern resulting from systemic, post-communist transformations in Central Europe. Currently he is working on two research projects: The Concept of Good Society, and Constructing Civil Society with Minimal Social Capital.

Contact Information

Email: misztal[at]cua.edu
Phone: (202) 319-5999

Website: http://sociology.cua.edu//faculty/MisztalVitae06.rtf
Department: Department of Sociology