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 | Collegium Civitas Cooperative University-Warsaw & ICM Paris |
Thesis | La production sociale de violonistes virtuoses (2006) |
Doctoral advisor | Jean-Michel Chapoulie |
Izabela Wagner-Saffray (born 3 November 1964) is a Polish-born European sociologist. Wagner has been an Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw[1] since December 2019. She is also a Fellow at ICM (Institut Convergence Migration) in Paris since 2019. Her sociological research is concerned with violin virtuosos. Wagner's contributions are 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.[citation needed] 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 Virtuosoe)" 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 Conservatory of Music in Nanterre, France in 1988 - 2001. Later since 2008 she worked at the Institute of Sociology - University of Warsaw.
Wagner has been an Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw[1] since December 2019. She is also a Fellow at ICM (Institut Convergence Migration) in Paris since 2019.
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) and the New School for Social Research in New York City (2016). Wagner's monographs have appeared in Chinese,[4] English, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian.[5]
Wagner's research activity addresses Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Composition, Music Education, Global Jazz Studies, Music Industry, Music Performance, and Music Performance Studies.[6]
Publications
[edit]- 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.[when?][9]
- Bauman: A Biography (Polity Press, 2020): Zygmunt Bauman and Wagner shared a Polish background but represent different sociological schools.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "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.
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Cazula, Clementina (2015). Sociologica. 2015 (3). doi:10.2383/82491. hdl:11584/143972.
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: 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.
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: 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.
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Dawson, Matt (February 2021). European Journal of Social Theory. doi:10.1177/1368431021991977.
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: 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]- Home page
- Izabela Wagner publications indexed by Google Scholar