Introduction… or Why „the Master”… is in Defiance

Kafar Marcin – assistant professor at the Department of Educational Studies of the University of Lodz; editor of several book series and member of the editorial board of “NOWIS.” He is currently conducting research on scientific biographies in Poland and the United States. Recepient of internhips (2010, 2016) and visiting professor (2018) at the Department of Communication, University of South Florida, USA.

Kola Adam F. – assistant professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University Laboratory for the Study of Collective Memory in Post-Communist Europe; visiting scholar at the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at the University of Chicago (2016–2019). Board member of the International Comparative Literature Association (since 2019). He recently published the book Socjalistyczny postkolonializm. Rekonsolidacja pamięci (2018).

Kola Anna Maria – assistant professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University Department of Social Work at the Faculty of Pedagogical Sciences, member of the Polish Accreditation Committee (2016–2019). Her research interests are interdisciplinary, but focus primarily on the sociology of (higher) education and social work. Initiator and promoter of various social projects realized in the third sector, member of the Citizens of Academia movement.