Dr. Piotr Goldstein

Piotr Goldstein is a social scientist. At ZOiS, he works in the team of the MOBILISE project, which aims to understand why in times of crisis some people protest while others migrate.

Piotr  Goldstein holds a master’s in International Peace Work from the University of Trieste as well as in Philosophy from the University of Lodz. He received his PhD from the University of Manchester working at the intersection of social anthropology, sociology and political science. Before joining ZOiS in June 2019, he held a Thomas Brown Assistant Professorship at Trinity College Dublin and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Manchester. During his fellowship, he researched various forms of donor-independent, informal, everyday activism, conducting fieldwork in Novi Sad (Serbia), Debrecen (Hungary), Lodz (Poland), Cádiz (Spain) and Manchester (UK). He is also a recipient of a Leverhulme/British Academy Small Research Grant, thanks to which he co-produced a 30-minute ethnographic documentary entitled  ‘Active (citizen)’.

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