Piotr Kubkowski is a cultural historian specializing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he focuses on the cultural history of tourism, travel, sport, the body, and urban culture. He earned his PhD with distinction in 2017 for a dissertation on Poland’s first cyclists. Since 2025, he is the Head of the Cultural History Section, and since 2024 he serves as deputy director of the interdisciplinary Urban Studies program at the University of Warsaw. He teaches courses in cultural anthropology, 19th-century Polish cultural history, and methodological workshops. He is the author of Sprężyści. Kulturowa historia warszawskich cyklistów na przełomie XIX i XX wieku [The Springy. A cultural history of Polish cyclists at the turn of XIX and XX centuries, 2018], the co-editor and co-author of several other books.
He has led and participated in numerous research projects funded by NCN, NPRH, and UW, focusing on cultural memory, modernity, and tourism. He has co-curated exhibitions at the Museum of Warsaw and other institutions, and co-created the documentary series BLOK. (2018). Active in scholarly associations and editorial work, he has also been recognized with several awards, including the Warsaw Literary Award nomination (2019), the H. Szwankowska Prize for the best varsavianist book (2019), and the National Centre for Culture prize for best doctoral dissertation in cultural studies (2017).