She was a professor at the Institute of Sociology at the Faculty of History and Sociology at the University of Białystok and at the Department of Sociology at Collegium Civitas. She was an associate professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and at Collegium Civitas. Former vice-rector of Collegium Civitas, as well as a member of the National Committee for Cooperation with the European Science Foundation (ESF), Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences.