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PhD in political science. Since 2016 Director of the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding, now Mieroszewski Centre. Formerly Deputy Director of the Centre, Head of International Economy and Energy Security Programme and Senior Research Fellow at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM). Graduated in international relations from the University of Łódź and the Dual Diploma Programme of the Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) and the University of Łódź in contemporary translation studies. Between 2003 and 2008, secretary of the editorial board of the Russian-language quarterly "Evropa". Author of numerous analytical studies, expert reports and articles on the energy policy of the Russian Federation, European Union-Russia relations, foreign policy of the Russian Federation and international climate negotiations, sanctions. Co-author and editor of the books "Geopolityka rurociągów. Współzależność energetyczna a relacje międzypaństwowe na obszarze postsowieckim" and "Energy Security and Climate Change: Double Challenge for Policymakers". Member of the editorial board of "AREI - Journal for Central and Easter European History and Politics" and "Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny". Twitter: @E_Wyciszkiewicz
PhD in history, political scientist, specialising in the history of Eastern Europe, especially in the history of Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-Russian relations, as well as the foreign and domestic policy of Eastern European states. Since 2022 deputy director of the Juliusz Mieroszewski Dialogue Centre and editor-in-chief of AREI. Journal for Central and Eastern European History and Politics. In 2014, he worked as rapporteur of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine. From 2006 to 2011 he was an analyst and head of the research group at the Polish Institute of International Affairs. Author of the monograph: ‘Progressive Nationalist. Mykhailo Hrushevsky and his views on Poland and Poles', editor or co-editor of several monographs - in Polish and English - devoted to the history of Polish-Ukrainian-Russian relations. In 2022, he published two volumes of sources on Polish-Soviet relations during World War II, and in 2019 - two volumes of sources (together with Grzegorz Hryciuk) on the struggle of the Polish underground against the Soviets in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. He is a regular commentator on opinion-forming Polish and international media and a commentator on social media.
graduated in international relations and Russian studies at the Jagiellonian University and Central and Eastern European cultural studies at the University of Warsaw. She has been working at the Centre since 2016. Coordinator of socio-cultural projects. She holds a Prince 2 Foundation certificate in project management. Graduate of the American exchange programme International Visitor Leadership Program and the EU project European Voluntary Service.
Senior Research Fellow, historian. He earned his PhD degree at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He specializes in the history of the Soviet Union 1917-1991, particularly the period of revolution and civil war (1917-1922), and politics of memory. His current research project "Russia’s Politics of Memory Towards Poland and Ukraine, 1999–2022" aims to determine to what extent Russia's politics of memory has been a result of contingencies and spontaneous reactions to changing socio-political realities and the international situation or one may observe a long-term and coherent strategy in this area intended to delegitimize the existence of the Ukrainian state and weakening Poland's position within the European Union and NATO. He is going to apply text-mining methods. He is a member of the editorial board of the online journal Novaya Polsha. He was a Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University (2019/2020) and a laureate of the START program of the Foundation for Polish Science (2020/2021). He cooperated with the Polish Institute of International Affairs on the publishing series "Polish Diplomatic Documents." He hosts a podcast on history and international affairs, „Polihistor” (in Polish).
PhD. in history, graduate of Eastern Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He completed a scientific internship at the Eurasian L.N. Gumilev National University in Astana, during which he conducted field research among Kazakh Poles. He completed postgraduate studies in museum studies at the University of Warsaw.
He worked at the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Repression and at the KARTA Centre Foundation, where he was responsible for the ‘Index of the Repressed’ programme and the International Belarusian Archive. Head of the Research and Scholarship Programmes Department of the Mieroszewski Centre.
Specialises in research on the history of Soviet repression against Poles and issues of historical memory. Author of, inter alia, works Unfound victims of Katyn? List of missing persons in the area of north-eastern provinces of the Second Republic of Poland from 17 September 1939 to June 1940; Katyn. Przewodnik szlakiem Zbrodni (Katyn. A Guide to the Crime Trail) (with J. Rogoża); NKVD ‘Polish Operation’ 1937-1938 against the background of repressions against Poles in the Belarusian SSR (co-authors: A. Smalianczuk, A. Wialiki).
Originator and co-author of the Internet portals www.katynpromemoria.pl, www.operacja-polska.pl and the database www.ofiaryterroru.pl.
Graduated from Kyiv's Taras Shevchenko National University with a master's degree in international relations, social communication and regional studies; graduated with a bachelor's degree in history and archaeology. She defended her Master's thesis on ‘The problem of UN reform after the end of the Cold War’. She completed a 6-month internship at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
She is currently interested in the foreign policy of the USSR, Russia and the USA, primarily in the context of Central and Eastern Europe. She is involved in the organisation of the Centre's projects in Ukraine and the implementation of the academic project ‘Justifying aggressive wars and war crimes of the Russian state - from Peter I to Vladimir Putin’.
Dr. habil., associate professor, historian and political scientist. Graduate of the Institute of Ukrainian History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv and the Jagiellonian University. He completed postgraduate studies at the SGH-Warsaw School of Economics. He is a research associate of the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2024, he was a visiting professor at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).
He has taught and conducted research at the Institute of Ukrainian History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv, the University of Warsaw, Harvard University, Hokkaido University, the University of Vienna, and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg. Editor of the journal “Nowy Prometeusz” from 2020 to 2024 and currently a member of the editorial committee. Member of the editorial board of AREI. Journal for Central and Eastern European History and Politics. Member of the Polish-Ukrainian Commission for the Study of Mutual Relations in 1917-1921 and the Historiographical Society (Poland).
Winner of the ”Przegląd Wschodni” Award in 2019 and the Iwan Wyhowski Award in 2022.
His current research interests include the period of wars and revolutions 1914-1923, the history of concepts in East Central Europe, intellectual history in the long 19th century and Polish-Ukrainian affairs. He is the author of a monograph on federalist projects in East Central Europe (1815-1921) and some 70 academic articles and essays.
