Joanna Nikel - Instytut Pileckiego

Doctor of the Humanities, graduate of History and Art History (University of Wrocław), postgraduate studies in the International Art Market (Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Kraków University) and Project Management (Warsaw School of Economics). Holder of DAAD and KAAD scholarships. Research stays at Humboldt-Universität Berlin and Technische Universität Dresden, among others. Researcher of German history, with a special focus on the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century. The author of numerous publications on German history and cultural heritage, including the monographs “Kształcenie architektów w Niemczech Wschodnich w latach 1946–1970 na przykładzie Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee” (2020) and “Terror niemiecki w powiecie mińsko-mazowieckim” (2025). Co-investigator in research projects funded by the National Science Centre – “Forest Germans (Głuchoniemcy, Walddeutsche): the past and present of forgotten local communities in the Carpathian Foothills”, and by the National Program for the Development of the Humanities – “Polish Germans 1939–1945. The Attitudes and Situation of Polish Citizens of German Ethnic Nationality In Lands Incorporated Into the Third Reich and in the General Government”. At the Pilecki Institute, she studies the German occupation from a microhistorical perspective, specializing in Täterforschung, with a particular focus on members of the German civil administration.