Department of the History of Ideas and the History of the Intelligentsia in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Head: Professor Maciej Janowski

Dr Jolanta Epsztein
Professor Maciej Górny
Dr Tomasz Hen-Konarski
Associate professor Adam Kożuchowski
Associate professor Grzegorz Krzywiec
Dr Artur Kula
Dr hab. Piotr Kuligowski
Associate professor Mariusz Kulik – Department Secretary
Associate professor Dariusz Łukasiewicz
Associate professor Aleksander Łupienko
Dr Agata Łysakowska-Trzoss
Associate professor Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov
Dr Bartosz Ogórek
Dr Quentin Schwanck

Doctoral students:
Serhii Basov, MA (SD Anthropos)
Szymon Głąb, MA (SD Anthropos)
Gabriela Juranek, MA (SD Anthropos)
Patryk Krupiński, MA (SD Anthropos)
Łukasz Mieszkowski, MA (SD Anthropos)
Oleksandr Pestrykov, MA (SD Anthropos)

Cooperators:
Dr Tomáš Pavlíček
Vladislav Yakovenko

Research topics and projects

1. Political history, history of ideas and the culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries:
   
   • “The political thought of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries”, funded by the European Union and affiliated to the Centre for Advanced Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria – Professor Maciej Janowski;
     
   • “The dispute about equal rights of women in Polish culture, 1864–1920”, funded by IH PAN, prepared for print – Professor Magdalena Gawin;
     
   • Preparation of the English edition of “Rasa i Nowoczesność. Historia polskiego ruchu eugenicznego 1880–1952” [“Race and Modernity. A History of the Polish Eugenics Movement, 1880–1952”], translation funded by NPRH, Professor Magdalena Gawin, to be published by CEU Press;
     
   • “Essays on culture and politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries” (preparation for print), funded by The Polish Book Institute – Professor Magdalena Gawin;
     
   • “Central European Romanticism in the post-colonial context”, leader: Professor Michał Kuziak, NPRH-funded, Warsaw University, Faculty of Polish Studies; Professor Adam Kożuchowski, Professor Magdalena Gawin;
     
   • “The Polish Independence Movement”; completed, with three volumes of documents and studies in preparation for print: I. Proces Waleriana Łukasińskiego i członków Wolnomularstwa Narodowego, ed. Wiktoria Śliwowska; II. Towarzystwo Patriotyczne, ed. Anna Brus; III. Rok 1846 w Królestwie Polskim, ed. Mariusz Kulik;
     
   • “The Society of the Polish People”; completed, with two volumes of documents and studies in preparation for print: Stowarzyszenie Ludu Polskiego na Litwie i Białorusi. Szymon Konarski, vol. 2, ed. Anna Brus;
     
   • “Polish exiles in Siberia”; completed; the project included compiling an extensive catalogue of exiled Poles to be made available for scientific and genealogical research; Ms Anna Brus, Professor Magdalena Micińska;
     
   • “Memoirs and correspondence of Polish authors from partitioned Poland, 1795–1918”; NPRH-funded, leader: Professor Wiesław Caban, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce; Ms Anna Brus;
     
   • “Women’s diaries of the 1846 Galician slaughter’; Professor Magdalena Micińska;
     
   • Cooperation of literary circles and the governments of the Piłsudski camp in the years 1931–1939″, doctoral project carried out by Mr Krzysztof Niewiadomski.
2. Contexts of the First World War:
   
   • “The Great War of Professors: Humanities during World War I”, published by IH PAN, Warszawa, 2014, NCN-funded – Professor Maciej Górny;
     
   • “Our War, vol. 1., Empires, 1912–1916”, published by WAB, Warszawa, 2014 – Professor Maciej Górny (with Professor Włodzimierz Borodziej);
     
   • “The First World War on the Polish lands. Expectations – experience – consequences”, NPRH-funded, leaders: Professor Andrzej Nowak and Professor Włodzimierz Mędrzecki – Professor Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov, Professor Maciej Górny, Dr Mariusz Kulik;
     
   • “World War I and women’s rights in the Second Republic of Poland in the context of the changes in Europe” – Professor Magdalena Gawin.
3. Social history and history of mentality of the nineteenth to twentieth centuries:
   Microhistory:
   
   • “Tenement housing in Warsaw, 1870–1914”, NCN-funded – Dr Aleksander Łupienko;
     
   • “Women and justice in the Kingdom of Poland at the turn of the twentieth century” – Ms Natalia Szumska;
     
   • “A microhistorical study of social transformations and mentality on the example of the town of Ostrów Mazowiecka (1918–1968)” – Professor Magdalena Gawin.
4. The history of Jews and Polish–Jewish relations:
   
   • “Coryphaeuses and Proletarians. How the Jewish intelligentsia formed the Jewish nation”, funded by IH PAN – Professor Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov;
     
   • “Ringelblum’s Archive: a comprehensive edition”, NPRH-funded via the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw Participant: Professor Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov;
     
   • “Modern antisemitic ideology in the Central European context, 1886–1939”, funded by IH PAN, Dr hab. Grzegorz Krzywiec;
     
   • “Pogroms. Collective violence against Jews on the Polish lands in the 19th and 20th centuries and its impact on Polish–Jewish relations. History, memory, identity”; NPRH-funded; Dr hab. Grzegorz Krzywiec (participant);
     
   • “Chauvinism in Poland. The Case of Roman Dmowski, 1886–1905”; prepared for publication in English, NPRH-funded, publisher: Peter Lang.
5. Disputes and debates in European historiography of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries:
   
   • “Polish, Hungarian and Czech historiography of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries”, funded by IH PAN and CEU of Budapest – Professor Maciej Janowski;
     
   • “The Holy Roman Empire and the First Republic of Poland in German and Polish historiography of the nineteenth century” – Professor Adam Kożuchowski;
     
   • “History of historiography of Central-Eastern and Southern Europe”, in cooperation with NIH – Professor Maciej Górny.
6. A collective project on the history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries:
   “The specificity of the historical development of Poland and Central Europe. A historical analysis of the debates about national and regional exceptionalism”, NCN-funded, IH PAN, 2011–2014, leader: Professor Maciej Janowski. Participants from the Department: Dr hab. Grzegorz Krzywiec, Professor Maciej Górny, Professor Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov, Professor Magdalena Gawin; Professor Adam Kożuchowski, Professor Magdalena Micińska, Dr Mariusz Kulik, Ms Anna Brus, Dr Aleksander Łupienko, Mr Krzysztof Niewiadomski, Professor Grzegorz Bąbiak. Other participants: Dr Łukasz Sommer, Dr Błażej Brzostek, Dr hab. Krzysztof Kowalewski, Dr Mikołaj Getka-Kenig.