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 Faculty of Philosophy, where he is now Assistant Professor in Asian Philosophy and the Deputy Dean for Research and International Collaboration.
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), a series of peer-reviewed papers investigating Confucianism and Chinese Marxism, and most importantly, the three-volume history of Chinese Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy and its Thinkers: From Ancient Times to the Present Day. Co-edited with Dr. Selusi Ambrogio and published in 2024 with Bloomsbury, it is the most extensive history of Chinese thought to date and a result of cooperation with more than seventy scholars worldwide (more).
Dr. 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 forty 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) and the journal Asian Studies.
Dr. 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” (2019-2025). 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.”
Currently, he is working on a first study of the Chinese Marxist philosophies of history and the monograph on the revival of Confucian philosophy during the Sui-Tang transition.