Team

Piotr Puchalski (Principal Investigator) is Associate Professor of Modern History at UKEN. He offers courses in the history of Poland, colonial empires, international relations, and contemporary tourism. He has previously published in the Historical Journal and the Journal of Modern European History, among others. His first book is Poland in a Colonial World Order: Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918-1939 (Routledge, 2022), and he has also contributed to the edited volume The World Beyond the West: Perspectives from Eastern Europe (Berghahn Books, 2022). His next project deals with Poland’s postcolonial entanglements.

Michał Maciejewski (Scholarship Recipient) is a PhD student at the UKEN Doctoral School. He graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków with a degree in History with distinction. His main area of interest is the social history of the twentieth century. His dissertation is entitled 'The Attitudes of the Polish State and Society towards the Second Italo-Abyssinian War’.