E-mail: a.stroz@instytutpileckiego.pl 

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6089-6983 
Researcher ID 0009-0001-6089-6983

Biographical note

An art historian and museologist. She received her PhD from the Faculty of Humanities of the Catholic University of Lublin. Doctor Stróż-Pawłowska carried out her postdoctoral project at the University of Cologne. As an academic, she is associated with the Catholic University of Lublin and the Higher School of Theology and Humanities in Podkowa Leśna. She served first as manager, and then – once the institution had become independent – as Director of the Ulma Family Museum in Markowa. At the Pilecki Institute, she initially co-created the “Called by Name” program, while currently she is implementing an original research project on places of memory devoted to the Holocaust in the domestic artistic discourse.

Research/academic interests

• culture of memory and places of memory from antiquity to the present day;
• places of memory devoted to the Holocaust in artistic discourse;
• representations of the Holocaust;
• museum studies: past and present.

Selected publications

Academic papers

• Anna Stróż, Die ältesten Orte der Heiligenverehrung auf dem Gebiet Deutschlands. Synthese nach dem aktuellen archäologischen Forschungsstand, “Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum” 58, 2015, pp. 112–137.
• Anna Stróż, Narodziny kultu relikwii męczenników na Zachodzie (The Rise of the Cult of the Martyrs and Their Relics in the West), “U schyłku starożytności. Studia źródłoznawcze“ 13, 2014, pp. 55–84.
• Anna Stróż, Historia badań nad zagadnieniem najstarszych zachodnich sanktuariów męczenników. Od kontrreformacyjnej apologetyki po współczesne badania interdyscyplinarne, “Vox Patrum” 33, 2013, vol. 60.

Volume editor

• Kamil Kopera, Losy Żydów z Markowej, prefaced and edited by Anna Stróż-Pawłowska, Markowa 2020.

Chapters in monographs

• Anna Stróż, O przekraczaniu granic. Wczesne przykłady depositio reliquiarum intra muros, in: B. Iwaszkiewicz-Wronikowska, A. Głowa, ed., Sympozja kazimierskie poświęcone kulturze świata późnego antyku i wczesnego chrześcijaństwa, vol. 8, Lublin 2013, pp. 219–234.
• Anna Stróż, O wieloznaczności terminu memoria, in: B. Iwaszkiewicz-Wronikowska, D. Próchniak, A. Głowa, ed., Sympozja kazimierskie, vol. 7, Lublin 2010, pp. 123–130.
• Anna Stróż, Najstarsze świadectwa związku ołtarza i relikwii, in: B. Iwaszkiewicz-Wronikowska, D. Próchniak, ed., Sympozja kazimierskie, vol. 6, Lublin 2008, pp. 193–212.

Participation in academic and organizational activities

Participation in research projects

• Byłe niemieckie nazistowskie obozy Zagłady w rodzimym dyskursie artystycznym – an original research project implemented at the Pilecki Institute, financing: institutional grant;
• How to speak about the Righteous? – an original research project implemented at the Ulma Family Museum in Markowa, financing: targeted grant from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage;
• Die frühesten memoriae martyrum Deutschlands – an original postdoctoral research project implemented at the University of Cologne, financing: scholarship from the Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer-Dienst;
• Najstarsze miejsca kultu męczenników w Europie Łacińskiej – a doctoral research project implemented at the Catholic University of Lublin, financing: National Science Centre grant.

Membership in committees

• member of the International Committee of the Ładoś Group

Membership in editorial bodies

• secretary of the editorial board, “Totalitarian and 20th Century Studies”

Membership in academic bodies

• secretary of the Scientific Council of the Pilecki Institute

Membership in academic societies and organizations

Membership in associations

• member of the Association of Polish Museologists;
• member of the Rajsze Association.