Agnieszka Laddach, PhD

Scientific activity

2021 – research assistant professor, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw
2021 – Sacrae Theologiae Licentiatus, Faculty of Theology, Nicolaus Copernicus University
2018 – Ph.D. of History, Faculty of History, Nicolaus Copernicus University
2013 – MA in Theology, Faculty of Theology, Nicolaus Copernicus University
2012 – MA in history, Faculty of History, Nicolaus Copernicus University
2010 – Bachelor of History, Faculty of History, Nicolaus Copernicus University

Scientific interests

history of culture, theology of culture, history of sexuality, theology of the body and sexuality, recent history, social aspects of religious faith

Information about publications

• Prohibition, Censorship, Denial: Polish Episcopate’s Narrative on (Homo)Sexual Acts Between 1945 and 1989, „Journal of Church and State” 66(4), 2024,  csae024, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csae024;
• Anti-Gender Preaching on IKEA Intranet: Catholic Church as a Besieged Fortress (2019–2021), in M. Bucholc (Ed.), Established-Outsiders Relations in Poland, Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias (pp. 53–81), Palgrave Macmillan 2024;
• Against the Nudity in Art: Eliasian Reading of National Conservative Catholic Habitus, „Open Theology” 10(1), 2024, https://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2024-0003.
• A. Laddach, Neurons, and the Brain: Perception of Historical Artworks in the Way of Sanctification, “European Journal of Science and Theology” 8/2022/6, 141-158.
• A. Laddach, The Potential of Neurotheology for the Theology of the Body and Sexuality, “European Journal of Science and Theology” 18/2022/5, 47-64.
• A. Laddach, The Sexuality and the Gender Diversity in the Liberal Catholic Discourse in Poland from the Pastoral Perspective, “Open Theology” 7/2021/1, 368-387, doi.org/10.1515/opth-2020-0165.
• A. Laddach, Pawła VI i Jana Pawła II nauczanie o seksualności – założenia, recepcja, dyskusja, “Forum Teologiczne” 22/2021/1, 171-189, doi.org/10.31648/ft.6929.
• A. Laddach, Janusz St. Pasierb – teolog, historyk sztuki, teoretyk kultury, t. 1. Dzieje życia, t. 2. Myśl humanisty, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń 2019-2020.
• A. Laddach, The Development of Historical Imagination on the Example of an Exercise Addressed to First-year Students of History at the Nicolaus Copernicus University, “Culture – Society – Education” 2019/2, 163-181.

Projects

Projects in progress

• Władza komunistycznego państwa polskiego i Kościoła rzymskokatolickiego wobec sprawczości homoseksualnych księży w okresie 1945-1989
• The national habitus formation and the process of civilization in Poland after 1989: a figurational approach

Other

Assistant Professor in the Cultural History Section. Historian and theologian. PI in the research project “The Polish Communist State and the Roman Catholic Church’s Power Toward the Sexual Agency of the Homosexual Priests Between 1945 and 1989” (National Science Center, no. 2021/40/C/HS3/00088), and investigator in the project “National Habitus Formation and the Process of Civilization in Poland After 1989: A Figurational Approach” (National Science Center, no. 2019/34/E/HS6/00295). Laddach held research stays at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Universität Wien and Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona. She conducted a query at the Polnische Historische Mission an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg, and a grantee of Young Universities for the Future of Europe and Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. In 2024, Laddach was awarded the prestigious Scholarship of the Minister of Science for Outstanding Young Scientists, as well as a Scholarship of Maurycy Mochnacki Foundation, Prof. Anna Stadnicka’s Scholarship, Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship Marshal Scholarship, and The Mayor of Toruń Artistic Scholarship. Laddach’s primary scholarly interests include history of sexuality and theology of sexuality and the body.