Justyna Struzik - Young Sociologists Congress

dr Justyna Struzik

Justyna Struzik - is an assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University. She devoted her doctoral thesis to queer mobilization in Poland. Her book Queer Solidarity was awarded as the best gender book by the Polish Gender Society in 2020, and in 2021 she received the Stanislaw Ossowski Prize.
 
Currently, as part of the Crimscapes - Navigating Citizenship through European Landscapes of Criminalization project, she is looking at the criminalization of psychoactive substance use from the perspective of users and activists. She is particularly interested in grassroots mechanisms for navigating criminalization. She has experience in conducting research projects using qualitative and collaborative methods with NGOs. She co-led pioneering research on the situation of non-heterosexual women outside large cities (together with N. Sarata and E. Furgal).
 
She is actively involved in the Sociology of Gender Section and the Cracow Branch of the Polish Sociological Association. Her research interests oscillate around social movements, sociology of gender and sexuality, social inequalities and grassroots strategies for responding to them.