Dr. Krzysztof Jasiewicz is the William P. Ames, Jr. ’41 Professor in Sociology and Anthropology, Emeritus, at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. From 2013 to 2023 he was the Editor of East European Politics and Societies & Cultures (EEPS), the prime academic journal in the field of East European Studies. He received his MA (1972) from University of Warsaw and his PhD (1976) from the Polish Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (IFiS PAN).

In the 1980s, one of principal investigators in the series of political attitudes surveys known as Poles of… (Polacy ’80, ’81, ’84, ’88, ’90). Contributor to Polish samizdat (Krytyka) and émigré (Aneks) press. In the 1990s, the founding director of electoral studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences’ Institute for Political Studies in Warsaw. At various times in his career, taught as a visiting professor at University of Warsaw, Harvard, and UCLA, among others, and held fellowships at Oxford, Harvard, and the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington.

Jasiewicz’s research interests focus on a comparative study of politics in post-communist East-Central Europe, with particular attention devoted to elections, voting behavior, party system, and political attitudes in Poland. His recent publications include Roads to and from Democracy: Studies in Polish Politics, 1980-2020 (Berlin: Peter Lang 2023), Na ulicy i przy urnie. Studia o zachowaniach politycznych Polaków, 1980-2020 (Warsaw: Scholar 2022), as well as articles in EEPS, Journal of Democracy, European Journal of Political Research, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and Problems of Post-Communism, and chapters in edited volumes, in English, Polish, German, and French.