Kate Korycki

I am a comparative political sociologist interested in identities, collective memories and group imaginaries. My research concerns the processes by which national, racial or gender identities are formed, and how the fluid and constructed identities appear as natural and fixed. To that end, I adapts the concept of collective memory to the field of politics, and to the field of belonging; and I track how stories of the past are creatively manipulated, how they constitute identities, and how they affect who is included or excluded in the conception of the ‘we.’ My first (forthcoming) book explores how collective memory is implicated in the formation of modern anti-Semitism in Poland; my next major project will examine how amnesia affects the notions of belonging in Canada.