Associate researchers

Małgorzata Łukianow, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Łódź, specialising in memory studies, sociology of culture, and social change, with prior roles at the Polish Academy of Sciences, TU Chemnitz, and as a Widzinski Senior Fellow at the University of Michigan in 2024. Her research explores dissonant heritage and collective memory, culminating in a forthcoming monograph on Polish post-migration territories. She co-edited the volume “No Neighbours’ Lands in Postwar Europe: Vanishing’ Others‘” (2022) and has written extensively on social protests in Poland, including far-right movements and their societal implications.

Nicolas Maslowski studied at the Institute of Political Science in Paris (IEP), received his PhD from the University of Paris X – La Défense Nanterre in 2009. His work focuses on Central Europe, the communist and post-communist periods, international relations, historical sociology and collective memory.

Iga Śliwska is a student at XIV Stanislaw Staszic Highschool in Warsaw and a second-year student of Business Law at the Youth Law University (Uniwersytet Młodzieży). Iga Śliwska is passionate about history, statistics and philosophy. In September 2023 she joined Zofia Wóycicka and Michalina Musielak as volunteer in the research project “Help Delivered to Jews during World War II and Transnational Memory in the Making”. Amongst others she will do press research.

Magdalena Wróblewska is art historian with special interest in museum studies, history and theory of photography, postcolonial theories. A fellow of Lieven Gevaert Centre for Photography KULeuven (2010), Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz-Max-Planck-Institut and Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (2012-2014), research fellow of Ruskin Library, Lancaster University (2014), Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2015). Head of Research in Museum of Warsaw (2015-2020), co-curator of the core exhibition Things of Warsaw (Museum of Warsaw, 2017). Authored several books and articles, including Fotografie ruin. Ruiny fotografii. 1944-2014/ Photographs of ruins. Ruins of photographs. 1944–2014 (2014); Things in a museum, in: Things of Warsaw (2017); Duality od Decolonizing: Artists’ Memory Activism in Warsaw (with Łukasz Bukowiecki and Joanna Wawrzyniak, 2021).

Laura Pozzi is an historian of modern Chinese history. She interested in the entanglements between history, memory, and politics in the People’s Republic of China. She analysis the role of visual culture and museums in the shaping of the Chinese Communist Party’s memory politics. Recently she has published “Local Museum, National History: Curating Shanghai’s History in the Context of a Changing China (1994–2018)” (The International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2020), a study of the reframing of colonial heritage in the Shanghai History Museum from historical perspective.

Łukasz Bukowiecki, PhD, is a scholar of cultural studies, a cultural sociologist, and a museum historian. Assistant professor at the Department of Contemporary Culture at the Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw. In 2019, he defended his doctoral dissertation with distinction on unrealised museum projects in Warsaw in the 20th century. Between 2018 and 2021, he held a postdoctoral contract at the Centre for Social Memory Research, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw, as an investigator in the international research project ECHOES, funded by the Horizon 2020 programme. He conducts interdisciplinary research on the cultural history of museums in Poland and the Baltic Sea region, focusing on the construction and protection of cultural heritage, social memory practices, and the circulation of urban imaginations.