Izabela Wagner
Izabela Wagner | |
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| Born | Izabela Wagner 3 November 1964 |
| Citizenship | Polish and French |
| Spouse |
Philippe Saffray (m. 1987) |
| Children | 2 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | |
| Institutions | Université Paris-Cité - URMIS - ICM Paris - Collegium Civitas Cooperative - University of Warsaw |
| Thesis | La production sociale de violonistes virtuoses (2006) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jean-Michel Chapoulie |
| Doctoral students | Beata Kowalczyk (2018) - Mariusz Finkelstein (2019) |
| Website | www.izabelawagner.com |
Izabela Wagner-Saffray (born 3 November 1964) is a Polish-born European sociologist. Wagner was awarded the scientific title of Professor Belwederski by the President of the Republic of Poland in May 2023 and has been a full professor at Université Paris Cité since September 1, 2023. Wagner has been an Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw[1] from December 2019 to August 2023. She is also a member of URMIS (Unité de Recherche Migrations et Société) Fellow at ICM (Institut Convergence Migration) in Paris since 2019. Her sociological research is concerned with migrations, exil of scientists, intellectuals, musicians (violin virtuosos). Wagner's contributions are also focused on the careers of artists and intellectuals, professional socialization and geographic mobility, migrations and forced-migrations.
Early life and education
[edit]Wagner was born on 3 November 1964 in Wołów, Poland, in a family of musicians (her father, Juliusz Karcz, is a compositor and her mother a music schools inspector). She began studying sociology at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris in 1996, and completed her Ph.D. there in 2006, defending the dissertation La production sociale de violonistes virtuoses ("Social Production of Virtuosos)" with Jean-Michel Chapoulie as her thesis advisor.[2][3]
Scientific work
[edit]Wagner worked at the musical academia as a Jaques-Dalcroze method specialist, as Assistant Professor at the University of Music in Poznań, Poland in 1986-87, and at the Conservatory of Music in Nanterre, France in 1988 - 2001. Later since 2008 she worked at the Institute of Sociology - University of Warsaw.
Within the field of sociological research, Wagner's contributions are focused on the careers of artists and intellectuals, professional socialization and geographic mobility, migrations and forced-migrations. Linking history with sociology she wrote about antisemitism in Europe in 20th and 21st centuries.[citation needed]
Wagner did sociological research mainly in Europe but also in the US and China. She was a visiting scholar at Harvard (2010/2011), at the New School for Social Research in New York City (2016), at UC Davis (2023, USA), a visiting professor at Fudan University (2012, Shangai - China). Wagner's monographs have appeared in Chinese,[4] English, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, German and Russian.[5]
Wagner's research activity addresses Migrations, Forced Migrations, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Composition, Music Education, Global Jazz Studies, Music Industry, Music Performance, and Music Performance Studies.[6]
Publications
[edit]- My Life in Fragments Editing and analysis of Zygmunt Bauman's private texts (Polity Press, 2023)
- Becoming Transnational Professional: Kariery I Mobilność Polskich Elit Naukowych [Careers and mobility of Polish scientific elites] (in Polish, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, 2011): the introduction recounts how Wagner has immersed herself in the world of scientists, labs, experiments. She considers the correlation between the scientist's symptoms of talent at an early age and their success as adults.[7]
- Producing Excellence: The Making of Virtuosos (Rutgers Press, 2015) (Wiley, 2020): Wagner spent many years in close contact with several musical prodigies, producing this long-lasting ethnographical study.[8] The monograph was featured among the top ten in China (2016).[9]
- Bauman: A Biography (Polity Press, 2020): Zygmunt Bauman and Wagner shared a Polish background but represent different sociological schools.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Wagner Izabela, Professor", Collegium Civitas, June 18, 2020, archived from the original on February 21, 2021, retrieved February 21, 2021
- ^ "Izabela Wagner". EHESS. December 16, 2016. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
- ^ Wagner, Izabela (January 2006). La production sociale des violonistes virtuoses par Izabela Wagner. theses.fr (These de doctorat). Paris, EHESS. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
- ^ "《音乐神童加工厂》 【摘要 书评 试读】图书" ["Music Prodigy Factory" (Abstract Book Review Test Reading) Book]. Amazon.cn. February 15, 2021. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
- ^ Изабелла Вагнер (2019). Создать совершенство. Через тернии к звездам: как рождаются виртуозы [Create perfection. Through hardships to the stars: how virtuosos are born]. Eksmo.ru. ISBN 978-5-04-095008-9. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
- ^ "Music Performance Studies Today - The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music". Schoolofmusic.ucla.edu. February 8, 2021. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
- ^ Reviews of Becoming Transnational Professional:
- ^ Reviews of Producing Excellence:
- Buscatto, Marie (April–June 2016). Revue française de sociologie. 57 (2): 379–382. JSTOR 24886825.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Cazula, Clementina (2015). Sociologica. 2015 (3). doi:10.2383/82491. hdl:11584/143972.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Harris, Malcolm (October 21, 2015). "How to Make a Virtuoso Violinist: One mother's devastating study of 100 musical prodigies". The New Republic.
- Loriol, Marc (January 2016). Liens Socio Lectures. doi:10.4000/lectures.19866.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Sutherland, Matt (Winter 2016). "Foreword Reviews". Foreword Magazine.
- Buscatto, Marie (April–June 2016). Revue française de sociologie. 57 (2): 379–382. JSTOR 24886825.
- ^ "思想·社科（10种，按书名音序排列）-中华读书报-光明网" [Thought·Social Science (10 types, arranged in order of book title)-China Reading News-Guangming Net]. Epaper.gmw.cn. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
- ^ Reviews of Bauman:
- Awad, Sarah (February 2021). Visual Studies: 1–2. doi:10.1080/1472586x.2021.1876528.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Dawson, Matt (February 2021). European Journal of Social Theory. doi:10.1177/1368431021991977.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Elliott, Anthony (September 2020). "Review". Australian Book Review. No. 424.
- Fitzpatrick, Sheila (September 2020). "Whatever made him". London Review of Books. 42 (17): 9–11.
- Gómez, Edward M. (September 12, 2020). "The Life of an Anti-Establishment "Rock Star"". Hyperallergic.
- Kumar, Krishan (September 18, 2020). "Exit, Pole: A celebrated intellectual's mistreatment in his own country". The Times Literary Supplement.
- Awad, Sarah (February 2021). Visual Studies: 1–2. doi:10.1080/1472586x.2021.1876528.
External links
[edit]- www.izabelawagner.com
- Izabela Wagner publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Doctoral advisor (Beata Kowalczyk - 2018, Mariusz Finkelstein - 2019)
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