Doctor of political science, Department of Law and Institutions of the European Union, Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw. Fellow of the Wilbur Foundation (2008), Institute for Fiscal and Economic Issues in Paris (2014). He made study visits to the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights (2010), LUISS University in Rome, the Institute of Political Sciences in Belgrade, Serbia and the Universidad Publica de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. Collaborator of Res Publica Nowa and Visegrad Insight. In 2013-2014, he participated in the Laboratory of Ideas program at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland. Multiple OSCE observer. Member of Team Europe at the Representation of the European Commission in Warsaw. His research interests include the Balkan countries, with particular emphasis on Bulgaria and the candidate countries and their relations with the European Union.
Political scientist. Habilitated doctor in the field of social sciences in the discipline of political science and administration. Professor in the Department of Eastern Studies at the Faculty of History of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Research interests: processes of political transformation in the post-Soviet area, political and social changes in Belarus, Polish-Belarusian relations, Belarus in international relations, political and social changes in the South Caucasus, migrations and refugees, functioning of so-called unrecognized states in the former USSR. Intern at the Belarusian State University (2018), Belarusian Institute of Law (2005), Yerevan State University (2013, 2018), and the Armenian Academy of Sciences in Yerevan (2021).
Doctor in political science. Assistant Professor at the Department of International Security of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. Long-term cooperation experience with NGOs and media, expert at the Center of Eastern Europe of Maria Curie Skłodowska University. Author and co-author of several dozen scientific publications and several hundred press articles. Participant and coordinator of projects delivered in cooperation with universities in Germany, Lithuania, Slovakia and Ukraine. In research focuses on international organizations, evolution of international security, and ethnic relations and cultural identity, especially in East and Central Europe.
PhD, senior analyst in the Institute of Central Europe in Lublin and assistant professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Faculty of History). Recently visiting fellow at Center for Global Studies at University of Victoria (Canada). Publicist collaborating with leading polish journals. His researches are focused on dynamics of identities in Central and Eastern Europe, politics of identity and remembrance, identity conflicts. Author of two books on Transnistria.
Doctor in political science, Assistant Professor at the Department of International Political Relations, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. Vice-president of Northern European Studies of the Polish International Studies Association (PISA), and a member of European International Studies Association (EISA), Polish Association of European Studies, and the Interdisciplinary Research Group for the Study of Nordic-Baltic Europe and the Arctic. Author and co-author of several scientific publications on international cooperation, international organizations and international security, with special focus upon the Baltic Sea region and East-Central Europe.
Doctor of Political Science specializing in international relations. Assistant Professor and Deputy Director at the Institute of European Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wrocław. Research interests: eastern dimension of European security, NATO-Russia relations, international relations in Central and Eastern Europe, Polish foreign policy. Analyst for the Jamestown Foundation, former employee of the Jan Nowak-Jeziorański College of Eastern Europe, former employee of the Regional Representation of the European Commission in Wrocław. Research intern at Matthias Corvinus College in Budapest. Guest lecturer at universities in Armenia, Montenegro, Czech Republic, Georgia, Israel, Kyrgyzstan, and Moldova, among others. Author of numerous scientific articles and two monographs: “National Security of Poland in the Context of the Ukrainian Crisis” and “Poland. An emerging geopolitical pole in Central and Eastern Europe?”
Doctor in economics and finance. Academic lecturer at the Institute of Economics and Finance of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Research interests: macroeconomy, the impact of new technologies on the economy, digital transformation, innovation. Author of academic papers devoted to the economies of Central and Eastern European countries.
Doctor in political science, doctor in humanities in the field of archeology. Between 2015 and 2018, Assistant Professor at the Institute of East-Central Europe in Lublin. Laureate of the Mobility Plus program. Between 2016 and 2017 conducted research project at Vilnius University. Research interests: politics and security in East-Central Europe and post-Soviet space, the Baltic states, Russian minority, Soviet heritage. Author of several scientific publications.
Doctor of Political Science. Graduate of the Faculty of Political Science at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (PhD) and the Faculty of Drilling, Oil, and Gas at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow (postgraduate studies). His research interests focus on energy security in Central European countries, political thought, and political parties in Poland. He is the author of numerous academic articles, analyses, and expert reports on the energy market.
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Historian and juridical scholar. Doctor of History in the field of general history (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) and Doctor of Humanities in the field of history (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin). From 2013–2018, Assistant Professor at the Institute of East-Central Europe in Lublin. Participant in many international conferences and seminars. Scholarship programs: Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto), Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and Institut d’études slaves in Paris. Research interests: the domestic and foreign policy and the political system of Ukraine; politics of history and politics of memory in Russia and Ukraine; history of Poland, Russia and Ukraine. Author of numerous publications, including Russian and Polish editions of monograph Historians of the Warsaw Imperial University 1869-1915: Education, Science and Politics, Lublin 2014 oraz Lublin 2016.
Historian and political scientist. PhD in humanities in the area of history (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University). Lecturer at the Department of Eastern Studies, Institute of Political Science and Public Administration, John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin. Intern at the Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (2013), and the Ukrainian Catholic University (2013). Visiting fellow at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA (2019). Research interests: international relations within the post-soviet area, security of the Eastern European region, migration, ethnic and religious policies, situation of national and religious minorities in the East and the role of the Catholic Church in the sociopolitical life of the countries of the former Eastern Bloc.
Historian and culture expert. Doctor in humanities in the field of history (the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin). Between 2015 and 2018, Assistant Professor at the Institute of East-Central Europe. Research interests: memory studies, Culture of Remembrance in East-Central Europe, post-1939 history of Central Europe. Author of a monograph on oral history Sharing memory. Theory and Practical Aspects of Oral History and several scientific papers.
Political scientist. Doctor in political science. Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Thought, Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin. Research interests: modern Polish-Slovak relations, Slovakia’s foreign policy, domestic and foreign politics of the V4 states, cross-border cooperation in Central Europe, political communication, geopolitical thought. An intern at the Polish Embassy in Bratislava. In addition, he did research internships in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Lithuania. Author of scientific papers and books, including an monograph Euroregions at the Polish-Slovak borderland. Genesis and functioning, Lublin 2013.
Robert Rajczyk, Ph.D. in Political Science and Administration, Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice at the Institute of Journalism and Media Communication. His research interests focus, among others, on issues of: international and intercultural communication, and topics related to political systems of Central and Eastern European countries, with particular emphasis on the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Kosovo, and the Visegrad Group countries. He has participated multiple times in election observation missions on behalf of the OSCE ODIHR in Moldova and Ukraine. Visiting Professor at Nahua University in Dalin, Republic of China (Taiwan) in 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2021. From 2015 to 2024, he carried out research projects funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China and the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy.
Prof. Dr. hab. Rafał Wnuk. The main areas of his research interests are: the history of anti-German and anti-Soviet resistance during World War II in Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in the post-war years, museology, and memory politics/historical policy. He was the originator and editor-in-chief of the “Atlas of the Polish Independence Underground 1944-1956” (2007), co-author of the script for the main exhibition of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk. Author of, among others, “Under the First Soviet Rule. Polish Underground in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic (September 1939-June 1941)” (2007); “Forest Brothers. Anti-communist Underground in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. 1944-1956” (2018).
Graduate of Slavonic studies and sociology at Maria Curie Skłodowska University. Doctoral student in political science (Faculty of Political Science and Journalism at Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin). Scholarship holder at universities in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and the Russian Federation. Research interests: political transformation of countries in Central Europe, energy policies, issues of democratization and Europeanization of Central-European states.
An associate professor (dr hab.) at the Faculty of Humanities (Nicolaus Copernicus University, NCU). The recipient of numerous scholarships and grants including a Kosciuszko Foundation in New York, the 2015 ASEEES Davis Travel Grant, Polish Ministry of Education, Ministry of Education and Culture in Croatia; conducted research at the University of Pittsburgh, George Washington University and the Humboldt University of Berlin as well as in archives and libraries in Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia and Croatia. She also did an internship at the European Parliament and a training stay at the Polish Embassy in Tirana (Albania). Member of The Laboratory for the Study of Collective Memory in Post-communist Europe (Postcomer) and the Polish Commission of Balkan Culture and History. Her research focuses on identity and historical narratives, nation-building and the politics of memory in the Western Balkans, Balkan diasporas, politics of Western Balkan states.
Graduate of historical studies at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the Centre for East European Studies at the University of Warsaw. As part of an academic exchange, he studied at Saint Petersburg State University in Russia. Research interests: broadly understood resilience of democratic societies, disinformation, and China’s foreign policy (particularly towards the former USSR countries and Central Europe).
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Sławomir Łukasiewicz, habilitated doctor of social sciences in the field of political science, historian of recent history, and European studies scholar. Professor at the Catholic University of Lublin. Fernand Braudel Fellow 2024 (European University Institute, Florence); visiting scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University from 2019-2023. Recipient of the Fulbright Senior Award 2019/2020, as well as fellowships from the Kościuszko Foundation, Foundation for Polish Science, and National Science Centre. Member of ASEEES, AHA, ACHA, and member of the Board of Directors of the Polish American Historical Association. In his research, he focuses on the history of the Cold War, including the political activity of Polish and Central European refugees, and on the intellectual history of this period, especially related to concepts of European integration and Sovietology. Author of, among others, “Poland,” in: “East Central European Migrations during the Cold War. A Handbook,” ed. Anna Mazurkiewicz (Munich: The Gruyter Oldenbourg 2019); “Third Europe: Polish Federalist Thought in the United States, 1940-1971” (Helena History Press, 2016), “Party in Exile Conditions. Dilemmas of the Polish Freedom Movement ‘Independence and Democracy'” (ISP PAN, IPN: 2014); co-editor with Piotr Kosicki of “Christian Democracy across the Iron Curtain: Europe Redefined” (Palgrave, 2018).
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Historian and sociologist. PhD in Social Sciences (University of Warsaw, 2015). Assistant Professor in the Department of 20th Century History, Faculty of History, University of Warsaw and Claims Conference University Partnership in Holocaust Studies Lecturer. Visiting academic: University of Oxford (2012, 2013, 2014-2015), Yad Vashem (2015), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (2024, 2025). Postdoc at Freie Universität Berlin (2016-2018, POINT 2016 Exzellenzinitiative, Marie Curie Program), Assistant Professor in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (2018-2021), and Adjunct Professor in the Department of History, University of Ottawa (2021-2024). Co-founder of “Holocaust Mass Graves” project at the German Historical Institute, Warsaw (2023-2024). His monograph Dom, którego nie było. Powroty ocalałych do powojennego miasta (Czarne 2016, 2018) received Klio Prize and City of Radom Literary Prize. Its English edition Ghost Citizens: Jewish Return to a Postwar City (transl. Madeline G. Levine) published by Harvard University Press in 2020 received Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize from German Studies Association (2021). Research interests: Holocaust history, aftermath of the Holocaust in Poland, social history of German-occupied Poland and WWII, history of everyday life.
Methodologist and historian. Professor of Humanities, associated with Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) in Lublin since the beginning of his academic career. In 1993, co-founder of the Institute of East-Central Europe and chairman of its first Scientific Council. Member of the Science Evaluation Commission at the Minister of Education and Science. Author of over two hundred scientific publications, including 8 books. Recently published: “Homo historicus. A Study of Six Cultures Exploring History” (UMCS Publishing, 2019), “On Historical Imagination” (UMCS Publishing, 2021), editor (together with Mariusz Mazur) of “The Great Change. History Facing Challenges…” (IPN Publishing, 2021); editor (together with Ewa Domańska) of “Introduction to the Methodology of History” (PWN, 2022).
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