Naum Trajanovski, PhD

Adjunct faculty member
Robert Zajonc Institue for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland

Visiting Fellowship 2025/26 (November 2025)

Naum Trajanovski is an adjunct faculty member at the Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw. He holds a PhD in sociology from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences. His major academic interests include historical sociology, the history of sociology in East Central and Southeast Europe, nationalism, and memory studies. He recently published the monograph A History of Macedonian Sociology: In Quest for Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

Statement of interest

During the fellowship, I will be focusing on two specific areas. First, as part of the project “Patchwork Parliaments. Post-Imperial Field of Power in The New Republic of Poland, Greater Romania and The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War”, I will finalize the dataset of interwar parliamentarians and present it to the INZ collegium. This dataset is designed to trace the parliamentarians’ career trajectories, examining patterns of upward mobility during and after the parliamentary service, as well as the transfers of various forms of capital and the nationalization and professionalization of politics. Second, I would like to expend my comparative research on the development of interest group theory in 1960s state socialist Europe which currently examines Polish jurists, ČSR “reform” scholars and the leading Yugoslav authors working at the intersection of the self-management theory and political sociology. This research will be published in the proceedings of INZ’s recent workshop “Revolutionary Technocracy: The State and Mass Organizations in Socialist Governance since the 1950s”.

Selected publications

• A History of Macedonian Sociology: In Quest for Identity. London – New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
• Marxist and Post-Marxist Sociology in East Central and Southeastern Europe. In: Theory Reimagined: Voices of Sociologists from Around the World, eds. R. Roy at al., 162-181. Frontpage, 2024. Co-authored with Marta Bucholc.
• Ohrid Framework Agreement 2001. In: Teaching and Leardning About Religious Diversity in the Past and Present, eds. K. Van Nieuwenhuyse, J. Maiden and S. Sinclair, 151-166. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Co-authored with Lidija Georgieva.
• The Two Museums of the Macedonian Struggles: Contested History Displays in Thessaloniki and Skopje. Südosteuropa Mitteilungen vol. 64, no. 5, 33-46. Co-authored with Adamantios Skordos.
• “Beautiful!!! And a Bit Scary!” The Comments in the Visitor Books of the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle in Skopje and the Reception of Rightist History and Memory Narratives in North Macedonia (2011-2014). In: Decolonial Politics in European Peripheries: Redefining Progressiveness, Coloniality and Transition Efforts, ed. S. Petkovska, 221-242. Routledge, 2024. Co-authored with Ivana Hadžievska.