Experts - Instytut Pileckiego

Our experts, lecturers and speakers.

Dr. Robert Citino (World War II Musuem in New Orleans), PhD, Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy and the Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian. Dr. Citino is an award-winning military historian and scholar who has published ten books including "The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943", "Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942", and "The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich" and numerous articles covering World War II and 20th century military history. He speaks widely and contributes regularly to general readership magazines such as "World War II". Dr. Citino enjoys close ties with the U.S. military establishment, and taught one year at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and two years at the U.S. Army War College.

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.

Jack Fairweather (author, former war correspondent), the bestselling author of "The Volunteer", the Costa Prize winning account of a Polish underground officer who volunteered to report on Nazi crimes in Auschwitz. The book has been translated into 25 languages and forms the basis of a major exhibition in Berlin. He has served as the Daily Telegraph’s Baghdad bureau chief, and as a video journalist for the Washington Post in Afghanistan. His war coverage has won a British Press Award and an Overseas Press Club award citation. He divides his time between the UK and Vermont.

Dr. Wojciech Kozłowski (Director of the Pilecki Institute), PhD, the director of the Pilecki Institute, a research institution based in Warsaw, and the chief editor of its scholarly journal "Totalitarian and 20th Century Studies". He holds Ph.D. in medieval studies from Central European University and M.A. in history from the University of Warsaw. He was a fellow at the New Europe College and a visiting scholar at the Department of History at Harvard.

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. Andrzej Nowak (Jagiellonian University), a Polish historian, public intellectual and an author of more than 30 books (among them a multivolume "History of Poland"). He is a professor at the Institute of History of Jagiellonian University and is the head of the Comparative Imperial Studies Section at the Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Between 1980 and 1988 Andrzej Nowak was involved in anti-Communist journalistic and educational activities, publishing many articles in so-called underground magazines, such as "Arka", "Miesięcznik Małopolski", "Alternatywy". He is currently the editor of „Kwartalnik Historyczny” (the oldest and most prestigious academic publication in Poland), the chairman of the Council of the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding, as well as a member of the European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity Academic Council. He has received many awards and honors, including the Order of the White Eagle, Poland’s highest order.

Prof. Richard Overy (University of Exeter), a Honorary Research Professor at the University of Exeter, UK. He has written extensively on the European dictatorships and World War II. His book "The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia won the 2004 Wolfson Prize. His latest book Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War 1931-1945" is published this year. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Prof. Johannes-Dieter Steinert (University of Wolverhampton), a professor of Modern European History and Migration Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK (Dr. phil. University of Düsseldorf; Dr. phil. habil. University of Osnabrück). Senior Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (2015). Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research 2020. Research interests: international migration and minorities, forced migration, survivors of Nazi persecution, international humanitarian assistance, and child forced labour. Current research project: Sinti and Roma child forced labourers in National Socialist Germany and German occupied Eastern Europe. Forthcoming co-authored monograph: "Przemysłowa concentration camp. The camp – the children – the trials" (working title).

Dr. Anna Stróż-Pawłowska (Former Director of The Ulma Family Museum of Poles Saving Jews in World War II), an art historian, museologist, academic teacher. Former director of The Ulma Family Museum in Markowa. 2016-2020 responsible for Museum's strategy, incl. numerous initiatives honoring Polish Righteous. Her areas of interest are issues related to commemoration, martyrology and contemporary museology.