Karolina Wigura

Professor Karolina Wigura is an academic and author. She is Associate Researcher at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Center for Liberal Modernity in Berlin and member of the Board of Kultura Liberalna Foundation in Warsaw. Wigura is the author of "The Guilt of Nations: Forgiveness as a Political Strategy" (2011) and "The Invention of Modern Heart: Philosophical Sources of Contemporary Thinking of Emotions" (2019) – both in Polish.

She published the books "The End of the Liberal Mind: Poland's New Politics" (2020) and "Post-Traumatic Sovereignty. An Essay" (in German, Suhrkamp Verlag, 2023). Her book, "Endangered States: Russia, Ukraine, and Survival Between East and West," coauthored with Jarosław Kuisz, will be published by Cambridge University Press and Tallandier in 2027. Wigura held fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Robert Bosch Academy, the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna, and St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. She regularly contributes to The Guardian, The New York Times, and other periodicals.