His research interests include social art, phenomenological anthropology, postsocialist transformation, anthropology of poverty, medical anthropology, and bottom-up development. He is also a medical doctor, a specialist in Accident & Emergency medicine. Recently he published Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness: An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland (Berghahn Books, 2016). He is also the editor, with Helena Patzer, of Pretextual Ethnographies: Challenging the Phenomenological Level of Anthropological Knowledge-Making (Sean Kingston Publishing, 2018, forthcoming).