RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Polish lands in the period of partitions, with the focus on demographic issues, socio-economic history, social mobility and migration processes, history of women and family; national relations in Poland in the 19th and 20th century, in particular the history of German and Jewish people, as well as the Polish-German-Jewish relations, notion of identity, consciousness and historical memory in Poland in the 19th and 20th century; historiography and source studies of the 19th and 20th century.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Od Zjazdu w Łodzi do Zjazdu w Szczecinie. Bilans badań nad dziejami szlachty i ziemiaństwa na ziemiach polskich w XIX wieku [From the Congress in Łódź to the Congress in Szczecin. Evaluation of Research on the History of the Nobility and Landed Gentry in the Polish Lands in the 19th Century], Warszawa 2017 (ed., with K. Karolczak)
• Dzieje kobiet w Polsce. Dyskusja wokół przyszłej syntezy[History of Women in Poland. A Discussion about a Future Handbook], Poznan 2014
• Approaches to Slavic Unity: Austro-Slavism, Pan-Slavism, Neo-Slavism, and Solidarity Among the Slavs Today, Poznan 2013 (ed., with F. Hadler)
• Słowianie – idea i rzeczywistość. Zbiór studiów[The Slaves – Idea and Reality. Collected Studies], Poznan 2013 (ed., with M. Saczyńska)
• Dwa życia jak dwa psalmy. Historia mówiona Leona i Toshy Jedwab opowiedziana Evie Urbach [Two Lives as Two Psalms. An Oral History Told to Eva Urbach by Leon and Tosha Jedwab], Poznan 2012 (ed.)
• Aktywność kobiet w organizacjach zawodowych i gospodarczych w XIX i XX wieku [The Activity of Women in Professional and Economic Organizations in the 19th and 20th Centuries], Poznan 2007 (ed.)
• O nowy model historycznych badań regionalnych [On a New Model of Researching Regional History], Poznan 2007 (ed.)
• Siła mitu. Żydzi w Poznańskiem w dobie zaborów w piśmiennictwie historycznym [The Power of Myth. Jews in Posnania During the Era of the Polish Partitions in Historical Writing], Poznan 2004
• Mechanizmy zamorskich migracji łańcuchowych w XIX wieku: Polacy, Niemcy, Żydzi, Rusini. Zarys problemu [Mechanisms of the Overseas Chain Migrations in the 19th Century: Poles, Germans, Jews, Ruthinians. An Outline], Cracow 2004 (with D. Praszałowicz, A.A. Zięba)
• Samomodernizacja społeczeństw w XIX wieku. Irlandczycy, Czesi, Polacy [Self-Modernization of Societies in the 19th Century: the Irish, Czechs and Poles], Poznan 1999 (ed., with L. Trzeciakowski)
• Die Posener Familie 1815-1848, Lüneburg 1996

MEMBERSHIP IN SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS IN POLAND AND ABROAD:

• International Committee of Historical Sciences (member of the board)
• Committee of Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (member of the board)
• Commission Internationale des Études Historiques Slaves
• Polish Association for Jewish Studies
• International Commission of Historical Demography
• Polish Historical Society
• Poznan Society of Friends of Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

History of the Middle Ages; hagiography and the cult of saints; history of women; history of private life; medievalism in contemporary culture and culture of the Early Modern Period; shaping the national and ethnic identity in the 19th century.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Tolkien – mit, historia, literatura. Eseje i studia [Tolkien – Myth, History, Literature. Essays and Studies], Poznan 2016 (ed., with Z. Kopeć, P. Matusik)
• Dawni Słowianie w tradycji polskiej pierwszej połowy XIX wieku. W poszukiwaniu tożsamości wspólnotowej [Ancient Slavs in the Polish Tradition of the First Half of the 19th century. Searching for the Group Identity], Poznan 2013
• Oblicza miediewalizmu [Faces of Medievalism], Poznan 2013 (ed., with A. Dąbrówka)
• Kobiety i świętość w żywotach trzynastowiecznych księżnych polskich [Women and Sanctity in the Lives of the Thirteenth-Century Polish Princesses], Poznan 2004

MEMBERSHIP IN SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS IN POLAND AND ABROAD:

• Polish Historical Society
• Poznań Society of Friends of Sciences

He studied archaeology at the Faculty of History at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. He also graduated a post-graduate course in local authorities at the AMU Faculty of Law and Administration, as well as a post-graduate course in politics and local government at the AMU Faculty of Social Sciences. He has held the function of Marshal of the Wielkopolska Region for four terms, since October 2005. In the period from July 2006 to March 2007 and from October 2014 to June 2015 he was the chairman of the Convent of Marshals of Voivodeships of the Republic of Poland. He has held the function of the vice-chairman of the board of the Union of the Provinces of the Republic of Poland since February 2011. He was also honoured by the President of the Republic of Poland with many state decorations for civil service, such as the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and Gold Cross of Merit.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

The social and cultural history of Poland and Europe in the 19th and 20th century.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• 1914 –1918. An Anatomy of Global Conflict, Kraków 2014
• Istorija na Trietaja Polska Republika [History of the Polish Third Republic], Sofia, 2012
• Historia Powszechna 1989–2011 [Universal History 1989-2011], Warszawa 2011
• Poljska Nakon Komunizma  (1989–2011) [Poland after Communism (1989-2011)], Zagreb 2011
• Kurze Geschichte der Dritten Republik Polen 1989 bis 2005, Wiesbaden 2010
• Collegium Maius. A History, Kraków 2010
• Historia Powszechna: wiek XIX [Universal History: 19th Century], Warszawa 2009
• Polsko 1989 –2008. Dejiny soucasnosti [Poland 1989-2008. Contemporary History], Brno 2009
• Polen und der Osten. Texte zu einem spannungsreichen Verhältnis, Frankfurt am Main 2005 (ed.)
• Historia Polski 1795–1918 [History of Poland 1795-1918], Kraków 2000

MEMBERSHIP IN SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS IN POLAND AND ABROAD:

• The Polish Historical Society (Vice-President)
• Commission on History and Church History of The Polish Academy of Learning
• Society of Friends of Science in Przemyśl

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Contemporary Anglo-American theory and the history of historiography, methodology of history, comparative theory of humanities and social sciences, the ecological humanities, studies on genocide and ecocide, dead body studies, non-European approaches to the past.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Nekros. Wprowadzenie do ontologii martwego ciała [Nekros. Introduction to ontology of a dead body], Warszawa 2017
• Historia – dziś. Teoretyczne problemy wiedzy o przeszłości [History – Today. Theoretical problems of knowledge about the past], Cracow 2014 (ed., with Tomasz Wiślicz, Rafał Stobiecki
• Historia egzystencjalna. Krytyczne studium narratywizmu i humanistyki zaangażowanej [Existential History. Critical Approach to Narrativism and Emancipatory Humanities], Warsaw 2012
• Історія, гуманітаристика, сучасність. Дослідження з теорії знання про минуле [History, Humanities, Present: Studies in Theory of Historical Knowledge], Київ 2012
• French Theory w Polsce [French Theory in Poland], Poznan 2010, (ed., with Mirosław Loba)
• Re-Figuring Hayden White, Stanford 2009 (ed., with Frank Ankersmit, Hans Kellner)
• Historie niekonwencjonalne. Refleksja o przeszłości w nowej humanistyce [Unconventional Histories. Reflections on the Past in the New Humanities], Poznan 2006
• Encounters: Philosophy of History After Postmodernism, London 1998 (ed.)

MEMBERSHIP IN SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS IN POLAND AND ABROAD:

• International Commission of Theory and History of Historiography (president)
• The Poznan Society of Friends of Sciences
• The Historiographic Society
• The Polish Historical Society
• The Committee on Cultural Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences
• The Committee on Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

History of Poland, history of Wielkopolska in the 19th century; history of Organic Work; history of the Church in the 19th-20th century, religion and the modernization processes in the 19th and 20th century; history of ideas; Polish culture in the period of the Partitions of Poland; history of cities in the 19th and 20th century (especially the history of Poznan).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Kard. M. Ledóchowski, Listy wakacyjne. Wybór korespondencji kard. Mieczysława Ledóchowskiego z ks. Władysławem Meszczyńskim z lat 1887-1900 [Holiday Letters. Cardinal Mieczysław Ledóchowski’s Selected Correspondence with Rev. Władysław Meszczyński from the years 1887-1900, [in:] Kardynał nieznany/The Unknown Cardinal, ed. M. Pukianiec, Poznan 2015, pp. 59-101 (ed., with A. Kucharska, T. Rogoziński)
• Cieszkowski a początki pracy organicznej w Poznańskiem [Cieszkowski and the Beginnings of the Organic Work in Posnania], [in:] August Cieszkowski in memoriam, ed. K. Meller, Poznan 2015, pp. 49-68
• Moritz Jaffe, Poznań pod panowaniem pruskim [Poznan under the Prussian Rule], Poznan 2012 (ed.)
• „Nadeszła epoka przejścia…” Nowoczesność w piśmiennictwie katolickim Poznańskiego 1836-1871 [“There Has Come the Epoch of Transition…” Modernity in the Catholic Writing in Posnania in 1836-1871], Poznan 2011
• Stan badań nad dziejami Kościoła Poznańskiego w XIX wieku [The State of Research on the History of Posnanian Church in the 19th Century], [in:] Kościół Poznański w historiografii, ed. Rev. L. Wilczyński, Poznan 2009, pp. 135-177
• „Obelisk der Geschichte oder überheblicher Halbgott” Otto von Bismarck im polnischen Diskurs 1862-1898, [in:] Otto von Bismarck im Spiegel Europas, ed. K. Hildebrandt, E. Kolb, Paderborn – München 2006, pp. 95-113
• Religia i naród. Życie i myśl Jana Koźmiana 1814-1877 [Religion and Nation. Jan Koźmian’s Life and Thought 1814-1877], Poznań 1998

MEMBERSHIP IN SCHOLARLY INSTITUTIONS IN POLAND AND ABROAD:

• Poznan Society of Friends of Sciences (general secretary)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Polish Church in the Middle Ages; the oldest history of  the documents in Poland; regionalism – Polish cities in the Middle Ages; Polish political and economic systems in the Middle Ages; biographical studies; the system of the ius ducale in Poland during the Piast Dynasty; Polish-Czech relations in the Central European context; history of Central Europe in the Middle Ages and Poland in the period of fragmentation.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Chrystianizacja Europy. Kościół na przełomie I i II tysiąclecia, [Christianisation of Europe. Church at the turn of First and Second Millenium], Poznań 2014 (ed., with J. Strzelczyk)
• Kazimierz II Sprawiedliwy [Casimir II the Just], Poznań 2011, 2014
• Stanisław Smolka, Mieszko Stary i jego wiek [Mieszko the Old and his age], Poznań 2011 (edition and epilog)
• A. Demandt, Historia świata w zarysie [The History of the World: An Outline], Poznań 2010 (edition and epilog)
• Stanisław Kętrzyński, Zarys nauki o dokumencie polskim wieków średnich [An outline of the study on the Polish document in the Middle Ages], Poznań 2008 (edition and introduction)
• Monarcha i możni wobec Kościoła w Polsce do początku XIII wieku [The Attitude of the Monarch and the Oligarchy towards The Church in Poland until the beginning of the 13th Century], Poznań 2002
• Działalność fundacyjna Kazimierza Sprawiedliwego [Founding activity of the Casimir the Just], Poznań 1995

MEMBERSHIP IN SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS IN POLAND AND ABROAD:

• Chair of the Council of the Museum of the Origins of the Polish State in Gniezno
• The Polish Historical Society
• The Polish-Czech Society of Friends of Sciences
• The Poznan Society of Friends of Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

The development of Christianity in the Balkans, especially in the region of the Lower Danube; the epoch of Theodosius II; political theology, ideology of power in late antiquity; ideas and values in the ethical and social systems; “natural history.”

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Gods of Constantine, [in:] Within the Circle of Ancient Ideas and Virtues, ed. K. Twardowska et al., Kraków 2014, pp. 275—286
• The Authority of Bishops in Classical Antiquity, [in:] Authority in the Past and Present. Sources and Social Functions, ed. K. Ilski, K. Marchlewicz, Poznań 2013, pp. 25-37.
• Voelkerwanderung und Solidaritaet der Nationen (4./5. Jahrhundert), [in:] Migrationsprozesse und gesellschftlicher Wandel in der Geschichte, ed. P Kehne, P. Matusik, Poznań 2011, pp. 73-96
• Idea jedności politycznej, społecznej i religijnej w świetle pism Ambrożego z Mediolanu [The Idea of Political, Social and Religious Unity in light of Ambrose of Milan’s Writings], Poznań 2001
• “Andreia” (Tapferkeit) bei den frühen Christen, Wien 1998
• Biskupi Mezji i Scytii IV – VI w. [The Bishops of Moesia and Scythia 4th-6th Century], Poznań 1995
• Sobory w polityce religijnej Teodozjusza II [Councils in the Theodosius II’s religious policy], Poznań 1992

MEMBERSHIP IN SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS IN POLAND AND ABROAD:

• The Committee on Ancient Culture of the Polish Academy of Sciences
• The Poznan Society of Friends of Sciences
• The Polish Historical Society

Literary scholar, Polish philologist, translator, professor of humanities. She specializes in the history of literature, contemporary literature and theory of literature.

She is a chair of the Department of Literature Semiotics of the Institute of Polish Philology at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology of the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań. In the years 2005-2012 she was the deputy director for scientific affairs at the Institute of Polish Philology at AMU, and 2012-2016 – the dean of the Faculty of Polish and Classical Studies at AMU. In the years 2016-2020 she was the vice-rector for student affairs at AMU, and from September 1, 2020 she is the rector of the University. In 2020, she was also elected a president of the Conference of Rectors of Polish Universities.

She is the author or co-author of nearly 100 scholarly works – books and articles. Her research focuses on 20th-century literature; she engages in literary criticism too. She is also a translator of English-language prose, particularly children’s prose, which is her great passion. In 1995 she obtained a doctorate, in 2001 – a postdoctoral degree, and in 2015 – the title of professor of humanities.

Graduate of Poznań University of Economics and Business and of MBA studies at Poznań University of Economics and Business and Georgia State University in Atlanta. Presently, he is the Chancellor of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, who heads the administration and economy of the University, in particular by planning, organizing and coordinating its administrative, investment, technical and economic activities, as well as by managing the University’s real estate and shaping and implementing the personnel policy in relation to subordinate employees.
Until 2013, he worked for Bank Zachodni WBK S.A. where, as a director, he managed internal audits in the areas of credit,operational and compliance risk. He holds a number of professional certificates in the field of audit, risk management, control and finances.