Naum Trajanovski

Naum Trajanovski (Macedonia)

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw

Program:

Visegrad Scholarship at OSA

Attendance Period:

Mar/2023 - May/2023

Research Title:

Historicizing Constitutional Illiberalism in Poland: The Ehrlich–Kaczyński Link

Research Description:

My research deals with the recent debates over Stanisław Ehrlich (1907–1997) and his theories of state and law in contemporary Poland. A leading legal scholar and editor from the late 1940s up to the 1960s, Ehrlich’s name reemerged in the Polish public discourse after the 2015 governmental change and the constitutional crisis that followed. Ehrlich (and his oeuvre)—as the academic mentor of Jarosław Kaczyński—became the usual suspect when historicizing the Polish constitutional illiberalism, not only via jurisprudence references, but, more importantly, the strikingly similar conceptual approaches and practices of his protégée.

Bio:

Naum Trajanovski is a PhD graduate from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, where he works on the project “Towards Illiberal Constitutionalism in East Central Europe: Historical Analysis in Comparative and Transnational Perspectives,” supported by the VolkswagenStiftung and led by Prof. Marta Bucholc (Polish team). His major academic interests include nationalism- and memory studies, and sociological knowledge-transfers in East Central and Southeastern Europe. He is the author of a book in Macedonian on the Museum of the Macedonian struggle and the Macedonian memory politics (Templum, 2020). Naum serves as a co-chair of the Memory Studies Association South-East Europe regional group.