Graduate Academy Experts - Instytut Pileckiego

Dr. John Dunn (Valdosta State University), a professor of History at Valdosta State University.  His course load includes Slavic Europe since 1700, and directing study abroad in Poland. Dunn's MA thesis examined Polish Defense Planning, 1919-1939; while Ph.D. dissertation studied the role of foreign military advisors in the 19th Century Egyptian army.  He authored "Khedive Ismail's Army" (Routledge, 2005), along with articles on 19th and 20th Century topics in Journal of Military History, War in History, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and Polish American Studies.  He is currently writing a history of Poland's November Uprising.

She conducts research on gender-based violence in twentieth-century Lithuania, anti-Soviet resistance, Soviet political trials and deportations, the dissident movement, historical memory and the culture of remembrance in the former Eastern Bloc and USSR. She is co-author and co-editor of Anti-Communist Opposition in Poland and Lithuania: a Similar, Common, or Parallel Phenomenon? (Vilnius, 2015).

Dr. Chris Millington is a historian of extremism and violence in twentieth-century France. His published work includes France in the Second World War (2020) and A History of Fascism in France (2019). He works at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Clare Mulley is an award-winning author and broadcaster, primarily looking at female experience in the Second World War. Published works include The Woman Who Saved the Children about Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children; The Spy Who Loved (Kobieta Szpieg), on the Polish born British special agent Krystyna Skarbek (Christine Granville), and The Women Who Flew for Hitler (Kobiety, Które Latały Dla Hitlera) telling the story of two women at the heart of Nazi Germany, whose actions put them on opposite sides of history. A popular broadcaster on TV and radio, Clare is also Chair of the judges for the British Historical Writers Association prize 2021. Clare is a recipient of the Daily Mail Biographers Club Prize, and the Bene Merito honour of the Republic of Poland.

Roger Moorhouse (author and historian), a historian specializing in Germany and Poland in World War Two. He is the author of a number of books on the subject, including “The Devils’ Alliance” (2014), “Berlin at War” (2012) and the award-winning “First to Fight” (2019), a history of the September Campaign of 1939, which was published in Poland as “Polska 1939”. He is a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Natolin, Warsaw, where he teaches a course on totalitarianism, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London and a recipient of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.

Prof. Michael S. Neiberg is Professor of History and Chair of War Studies at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. His published work specializes on the First and Second World Wars in global context. The Wall Street Journal named his Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I (Harvard University Press, 2011) one of the five best books ever written about that war. His latest book is When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Relationship (Harvard University Press, 2021). In 2017 he was awarded the Médaille d'Or du Rayonnement Culturel from La Renaissance Française, an organization founded by French President Raymond Poincaré in 1915 to keep French culture alive during the First World War. 

Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz was born in 1963. He graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków with a degree in History, and from the Silesian University in Katowice with a PhD. His doctoral thesis, which was completed in 1999 was titled “IG Farben- Werk Auschwitz 1941-1945”. He has worked in the Research Department at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum since 1988. Between 2001-2007 he was the Head of the Archives and in 2008 he became the Head of the Research Department. His research interests are: the employment of prisoners in German industry, the history of sub camps in KL Auschwitz and the SS Garrison among others.

Damien Stewart, prior to becoming a Psychologist, he was a Police Officer for 20 years in Sydney. In 2012, Damien completed two masters degrees in Psychology at the University of Queensland. After graduating in 2014, Damien created Room23 Psychology and went into private practice. Damien is currently in the process of applying to LaTrobe University in Melbourne to complete a PhD on Intergenerational Trauma among Pole’s and Jewish-Pole’s following WWII. Registering the business in Poland in 2021, Damien is the Director of Poland at War Tours, a collection of tours designed to explore the occupation of Poland, The Holocaust, and Polish resistance during WWII.

Prof. Nikolaus Wachsmann is professor of modern European history at Birkbeck College, University of London, and the author of KL. A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps, winner of the 2016 Wolfson History Prize and the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize. Wachsmann has served on the International Advisory Board Bergen-Belsen, and serves on Academic Advisory Boards at the Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück and Mauthausen Memorials. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the 15-volume documentary edition The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, and has developed an educational website, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, about the history of the Nazi camps (www.camps.bbk.ac.uk).

Dr. Małgorzata Wosińska, a cultural anthropologist, psychotraumatologist. Ph.D (ABD) at Faculty of History at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Her research interests cover a wide range of interrelated disciplines from Critical Holocaust Studies through to the Anthropology of Genocide and Forensic Studies. She is a lecturer (courses in Genocide Theory, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Museum Studies) at the University Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan/PL, Warsaw University (NOHA), Northeastern University Boston/USA, King's College Halifax/CA.  She also works with the witnesses of traumatic events. Her doctorial thesis concerns the identity of genocide survivors in Rwanda, where she has conducted regular field research since 2009. She is an author of 39 publications in scientific journals, co-editor of 4 books and 1 collection of reportages reports.

Dr. Elke Gryglewski is the director of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation and the Memorial Bergen-Belsen. She studied political science in Munich, Berlin and Santiago de Chile. She wrote her Ph.d. on “Young Arab-Palestinian and Turkish Berliners and their relationship with National Socialism and the Shoah: A study of the pedagogy of appreciation”. From 1995 – 2015 she worked in the House of the Wannsee-Conference as a member of the academic-pedagogic staff and from 2015 – 2020 as Deputy Director and head of the educational department. She was a member of the independent panels on Antisemitism established on the basis of Bundestag resolutions. Since 2018 she is expert for the German Foreign Office on the issue of designing a memorial covering the history of the Colonia Dignidad. Her research areas are National Socialism in a global perspective, reckoning with National Socialism after 1945, dealing with National Socialism in the diverse German society.