Historian, social scientist, Ukrainian studies expert
e-mail: elzbieta.kwiecinska@ispan.edu.pl
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3992-1256
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elzbieta-Kwiecinska
Academia.edu: https://pan-pl.academia.edu/ElaKwiecinska
Twitter: https://x.com/ekwiecin
Research interests
Modern history of East-Central Europe, Ukrainian-Polish history and memory, transnational and global history, oral history of the Russian war against Ukraine, identity, nationalism, (post)colonialism.
Membership in scientific bodies
- Association for Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
- Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)
- British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)
- Polskie Towarzystwo Studiów Żydowskich
- The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America (PIASA)
- RUTA Association
- The History of Concepts Group
- Ukraińskie Towarzystwo Historii Mówionej
- Polskie Towarzystwo Historii Mówionej
Positions:
- Expert of the National Centre for Research and Development in Poland (Narodowe Centrum Badań i Rozwoju, NCBR)
- Editor of publishing series: (Post)Imperialism and (Post)Colonialism in Central and Eastern Europe Series, Central European University Press
Awards and honors
- 2022: The Prize for the Best First Book Proposal in Minority History, Honorable Mention, BASEES Study Group for Minority History (SGMH)
- 2017: The Barbara Blaszak Award for the Best Graduate Paper at the New York State Association of European Historians Annual Conference
Scholarships
- August–December, 2023, Central European University, Democracy Institute, Budapest, external fellow in the “Academics against Authoritarianism” program
- April 2023, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt am Oder, EUTIM Visiting Fellow
- February–June 2021, Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine, Visegrad Scholar
- October–December 2020, German Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland, Visiting Fellow
- February 2020, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine, Visiting Fellow
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Scholarship for Foreign Students for the 50th Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture (2018)
- The Polish Ministry of Higher Education Grant for a PhD at the European University Institute (2015–06.2020)
Publications
Chapters in monographs:
- Kwiecińska, E. (2022). The Concept of the “Civilizing Mission” and Ukrainian Statehood at the Paris Peace Conference. In Olena Palko & Constantin Ardeleanu (Eds.) Making Ukraine. Negotiating, Contesting and Drawing the Borders in the Twentieth Century. McGill et al. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2s0jddt
Articles:
- Kwiecińska, E. (2023). The Russian “Civilizing Mission” and the Russian War against Ukraine: the 19th-Century Colonial Origins. Forum Transregionale Studien (TRAFO). https://doi.org/10.58079/ut82
- Kwiecińska, E. (2023). And There Will Be No Russian Tsar and No Polish Lord: Ukrainian Populist Utopia of the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius in a Transnational Perspective. Global Intellectual History. https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2023.2258454
- Kwiecińska, E. (2021). An “India of Europe”. Stanisław Szczepanowski (1846– 1900) and Galician-Indian parallels in “The Misery of Galicia”. Artha Journal of Social Sciences. Special issue on Postcolonial–Postsocialist Decolonial Investigations, vol. 20, no. 2. https://doi.org/10.12724/ajss.57.4
Popular science articles:
- Kwiecińska, E. (2022). Od współczucia do trwogi. O postrzeganiu polskich powstańców w Niemczech i ukraińskich Kozaków w Polsce. Polityka. Pomocnik Historyczny.
Toolkit for Polish high-school history teachers:
- Kwiecińska, E. (2021). Współobywatele czy dyskryminowana mniejszość? Ukraińcy w Niepodległej. Warszawa: Zeszyty do Debat Historycznych, Muzeum Józefa Piłsudskiego w Sulejówku, Fundacja „Polska Debatuje”.