Katarzyna Krakowska is a sociologist whose research focuses on women’s experiences of migration, the social herstory of Central and Eastern Europe, and the societal consequences of the war in Ukraine. As a qualitative researcher, she specializes in Fritz Schütze’s method of narrative biographical interviews. She is currently the Principal Investigator of the National Science Centre (NCN) research project “Ukrainian Women Aged 60+ in Refuge: Autobiographical Narratives of Forcibly Displaced Women” and is preparing a dissertation on identity and language in the biographical narratives of Ukrainian refugee women over the age of sixty in Poland.

In 2024, she received the Zygmunt Bauman Prize of the Polish Sociological Association for the co-authored book Społeczeństwo łatwopalne: praktyki pomagania uchodźcom wojennym z Ukrainy w Polsce w 2022 roku [ A Flammable Society: Practices of Helping Ukrainian War Refugees in Poland in 2022 ]. She is a scholarship holder in the project Biography and Academic Imaginaries , conducted under the direction of Kamil Łuczaj at the University of Łódź and funded by the National Science Centre (NCN). She is also employed as a specialist in teaching about war and displacement in the international NAWA intervention project Understanding Migration Realities: Teaching Migration Studies in Diversifying Societies , led by Monika Nowicka and carried out at the University of Civitas. Krakowska is a graduate of Collegium Civitas in Warsaw and a doctoral student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at the University of Łódź.