Born in Częstochowa in 1992. He received his B.A. in Chinese studies and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland). Since 2019 he has been teaching in the AMU Department of Philosophy, where he is now Assistant Professor in Asian Philosophy.
His main contribution to the development of studies on Chinese thought involves the (re-)discovery of the Chinese philosophy of history, resulting in the monograph Chinese Philosophy of History. From Ancient Confucianism to the End of the Eighteenth Century (Bloomsbury, 2020) and a series of peer-reviewed papers investigating Chinese historical thought, contemporary theories of history applied to classical and modern Chinese historiography, and Chinese Marxism.
In 2021 Dr. Dawid Rogacz and Dr. Selusi Ambrogio were appointed by Bloomsbury as General Editors of the three-volume survey of Chinese philosophy: Chinese Philosophy and its Thinkers: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, the publication of which (in paper and online) is planned for 2024. The project aims to expand and challenge the existing views on Chinese philosophy and entails cooperation with more than seventy scholars worldwide (more).
Fluent in Mandarin and Classical Chinese, Rogacz conducted research stays at Nankai University in Tianjin (Summer 2015), City University of Hongkong (Spring 2017), and Leiden University (September 2021 and July-August 2023). He has attended more than thirty conferences and congresses around the world, including Asia, North America, and South America. He is a member of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP), the International Society for Chinese Philosophy (ISCP), and a board member of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy (EACP). As a former contractor of the European Research Council Consolidator Project “Narrative Modes of Historical Discourse in Asia,” Rogacz maintained close research collaboration with scholars from Germany, Denmark, France, the USA, Japan, and Brazil.
Rogacz received numerous scholarships and awards, including the Polish Ministry of Higher Education scholarship, the SACP Best Essay Award, and the EACP Young Scholar Award. He is a recipient of two National Science Centre grants: “Chinese Philosophy of History” (2015-2019) and “Philosophical Views of History and Historiography in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century China” (2019-), the latter being devoted to the continuation of his research on the premodern Chinese views of history. He is also the Principal Investigator of the National Program for the Development of Humanities Grant “Polish translation and critical edition of ‘Lunheng’ (‘Balanced Essays’) of Wang Chong,” which will result in the first Polish translation of a Chinese philosophical treatise written in the imperial era.
Currently, he is working on a first study of the Sino-Marxist philosophy of history and the completion of the three-volume overview of the history of Chinese philosophy.