Department of Research on the History of Poland after 1945
Head: Professor Dariusz Jarosz
Professor Jerzy Eisler
Associate professor Bartosz Kaliski
Associate professor Krzysztof Kosiński – Department Secretary
Professor Tomasz Szarota
Associate professor Ewelina Szpak
Dr Patryk Wasiak
Associate professor Hubert Wilk
Professor Tadeusz Wolsza
Cooperators:
Rafał Brodacki, MA
Piotr Donefner, MA
Dr Natalia Jarska
Professor Zbigniew Romek
Dr Michał Studniarek
COLLECTIVE PROJECTS
1. The series of publications entitled Poland 1944/45–1989. Studies and Materials – editors: Professor Tomasz Szarota, Professor Jerzy Eisler, Professor Krzysztof Kosiński.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
(alphabetical order)
1. “A socio-cultural history of cancer in Poland after 1945” – Dr Ewelina Szpak (funded by IH PAN).
2. “Contacts of the Polish automotive industry with Fiat in the 1980s” – Professor Hubert Wilk (funded by IH PAN).
3. “Crimes of Cain” – Professor Tomasz Szarota (funded by IH PAN).
4. “Environmental history of Krakow” – Dr Ewelina Szpak (funded by NCN).
5. “Fandom: a community of speculative fiction lovers in the People’s Republic of Poland, 1976–1989. The functioning of a fan group under ‘real socialism’” – Ms Aleksandra Wierzchowska (doctoral dissertation project, supervision: Professor Krzysztof Kosiński).
6. “Historical research in the process of identification of persons sentenced to death and executed in Poland in the years 1944–1956” – Ms Milena Bykowska-Witowska (doctoral dissertation project, supervision: Professor Tadeusz Wolsza).
7. “History of health and illness in post-war Poland” – Dr Ewelina Szpak (funded by IH PAN).
8. “In spite of the party, censorship and propaganda. Repression against Poles proclaiming the truth about the Katyń massacre 1944–1956” – Professor Tadeusz Wolsza (funded by IH PAN).
9. “Ireneusz Gugulski (1935–1990). A Teacher’s Biography” – Professor Krzysztof Kosiński (funded by IH PAN).
10. “Jiří Lederer (1922–1983) – journalist, dissident, and hero of the Czech and Polish nations” – Dr Bartosz Kaliski (funded by IH PAN).
11. “Letters to the authorities as a source of research on the social history of the People’s Republic of Poland” – Dr Ewelina Szpak (funded by NCN).
12. “Letters to the authorities as a source of research on the social history of the People’s Republic of Poland” – Professor Dariusz Jarosz (funded by NCN).
13. “Marek Nowakowski: A Biography” – Professor Krzysztof Kosiński (funded by IH PAN).
14. “National conspiracy in occupied Warsaw and its post-war fate” – Professor Krzysztof Kosiński (funded by IH PAN).
15. “Power and the socio-cultural press in the People’s Republic of Poland: the case of the weekly ‘Kultura’ 1963–1981” – Mr Aleksander Długołęcki (doctoral dissertation project, supervision: Professor Krzysztof Kosiński).
16. “Tackling political corruption and abuse of office in Poland and the German Democratic Republic in the 1980s. A historical and sociological study” – Mr Jakub Szumski (doctoral dissertation project, supervision: Professor Jerzy Eisler).
17. “The Committee for Radio and Television as a propaganda tool of the Polish United Workers’ Party (PZPR) in 1970–1980” – Mr Piotr Donefner (doctoral dissertation project, supervision: Professor Jerzy Eisler).
18. “The history and fate of the Robinson Crusoes of Warsaw” – Mr Michał Studniarek (doctoral dissertation project, supervision: Professor Tomasz Szarota).
19. “The History of the Polish United Workers’ Party” – Professor Jerzy Eisler (funded by the Institute of National Remembrance and IH PAN).
20. “The People’s Army of Poland as an institution of the politics of memory (1956–1981)” – Mr Tomasz Leszkowicz (doctoral dissertation project, supervision: Professor Krzysztof Kosiński).
21. “The social aspects of mandatory military service in the People’s Republic of Poland” – Professor Dariusz Jarosz (funded by NCN).
22. “Władysław Bieńkowski. A biography” – Dr Bartłomiej Kapica (funded by IH PAN).
23. “Zenon Kliszko: A Biography” – Mr Rafał Brodacki (doctoral dissertation project, supervision: Professor Krzysztof Kosiński).
