Maynooth University Faculty of Social Sciences

Dr Maria Waclawik is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the project LINLOSS: Towards a Sociology of Loss – Disposals and Dead-ends in Lineages of Social Innovation and Change (funded by the European Research Council 2023-2028). 

She holds a PhD in Sociology from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Her PhD thesis, titled 'Memories of World War II and Ethnic Identity as Reflected in the Autobiographical Narratives of Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians', examined the links between the memory of wartime experiences and ethnic identity.

Dr Waclawik has been recognized with several awards, including the Doctoral Student Research Award from the Government of Canada, the Graduate Student Scholarship from the International Council for Canadian Studies, Utrecht Network Scholarship, and the Nancy Burke Award from the Polish Association for Canadian Studies. She was a visiting scholar at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada from 2012 to 2013. She also conducted research in Yokohama, Japan in 2015 and in Los Angeles, USA in 2016.