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Department of the History of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Sociology
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Job description

Assistant Professor

Department of the History of Economics

Research and teaching employee

Historian and economist

Bio

Employment

2025 – Visiting Scholar, Harriman Institute, Columbia University in the City of New York, USA

2021–Present – Assistant Professor, Department of History of Economics, Institute of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz

2018–2021 – Assistant, Department of History of Economic Thought and Economic History, Institute of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz


Education

2021 – University of Lodz, Poland, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, PhD studies: Economics. PhD dissertation defended with honour: Znaczenie wybranych instytucji formalnych dla gospodarki Niemiec w latach 1990–2015 [The Importance of Selected Formal Institutions for the German Economy, 1990–2015] (Supervisor: Prof. Janusz Skodlarski). PhD degree in Economics and Finance, specialization: Economic History

2014 – University of Lodz, Poland, Faculty of Philosophy and History, MA studies graduated with honour: History. MA thesis: Losy czeskich Żydów w łódzkim getcie [The Fate of Czech Jews in the Łódź Ghetto] (Supervisor: Prof. Kazimierz Badziak)

2012 – University of Lodz, Poland, Faculty of Philosophy and History, BA studies graduated with honour: History. BA thesis: Od Listu majestatycznego do defenestracji praskiej. Polityka Habsburgów wobec Czech w latach 1609–1618 [From the Letter of Majesty to the Defenestration of Prague. The Politics of Habsburgs in Bohemia, 1609–1618] (Supervisor: Prof. Jolanta Daszyńska)

Interests

Research interests

contemporary history of Poland and global history (19th–21st centuries), economic history, institutional economics, political, social and economic thought, theory and methodology of humanities and social sciences


Currently research areas

functioning of the first Treuhandanstalt (UrTHA) in the GDR, institution of property rights in historical and economic terms, Polish home and exile economic historiography and economics after 1945, gradual evolution of the economic history's normative methodology in communist Poland, history of Polish economic thought, Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI's thought


Other interests

literature, art, nature, travel, theology, philosophy, astronomy


Graduation seminar topics

economic history (Poland and the World), history of economic historiography, history of economic thought (Poland and the World), history of economics, institutional economics, mesoeconomics, property rights economics, constitutional economics

Achievements

Research scholarships and grants

2024 – scholarship of the programs: Excellence Initiative – Research University (IDUB), European University of Post-Industrial Cities (UNIC)

2024–2025 – Kosciuszko Foundation scholarship (The Kosciuszko Foundation Exchange Program to the United States). Project title: Polish Economics in the USA, 1945–1989

2023 – funding of scientific work of young researchers (Faculty of Economics and Society, University of Lodz, Poland). Project title: Ocalić własność socjalistyczną. Pierwszy Urząd Powierniczy (Ur-Treuhandanstalt) w NRD w 1990 r. [To Save a Socialist Property: The First Trust Office (Ur-Treuhandanstalt) in the GDR in 1990]. Grant for query in the Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, Germany

2021 – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) scholarship, Cooperations with Universities in Central and Eastern Europe program

2020 – Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) scholarship, PROM program

2018 – target subsidy for young researchers and PhD Students in 2018 (Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland; Faculty of Economics and Society, University of Lodz, Poland). Project title: Home and Exile Polish Economic Historiography, 1945–1989: Poland, Great Britain and the United States

2013–2014 – scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for achievements


Research internships and trips

2025 – Columbia University, New York, USA (The Kosciuszko Foundation Exchange Program to the United States; Visiting Scholar, Harriman Institute; Dr. Christopher Caes)

2024 – Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (Excellence Initiative – Research University (IDUB), European University of Post-Industrial Cities (UNIC); Prof. Sören Urbansky)

2021 – Universität Regensburg, Germany (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD; Prof. Mark Spoerer)

2020 – Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany (PROM program, Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, NAWA)

2020 – Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gieβen, Germany (Prof. Matthias Göcke)

2018 – Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

2018 – Columbia University, New York, USA


Courses at the University of Lodz

Courses in Polish and English: Microeconomics, History of Economics, Economics, History of Economic Thought, Economic History, Institutions in Economy, German Modern Economy, Major Trends of Contemporary Economic Theory, Economic Powers in History: China, USA, USSR, Economic Systems, Thematic Seminar (Threads from Economic History in Nobel Economic Research)


Courses at other centers

2024 – Janusz Kurtyka Foundation in Warsaw, Past and Future School – “Direction: Ukraine!”: The Eastern Bloc Economic System and Paths of Transistion

2021/2022 – International College, Zhengzhou University, China: Economic History, International Economic History


Membership in scientific and social organizations

The Kosciuszko Foundation Alumni

Polish Association of Economic History

Polish Historical Association

Janusz Kurtyka Foundation in Warsaw (Vice President of the Board)

cooperation with the Ratzingerianum Research Centre (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland)


Participation in Polish and international conferences and scientific seminars

e.g.: at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Charles University in Prague, University of Regensburg, University of Tartu, Wissenschaftliches Zentrum der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Columbia University in the City of New York


Participation in World Economic History Congresses (WEHC):

2025 – XX WEHC Lund, Lund University (main organizer of the Polish Association of Economic History's panel)

2022 – XIX WEHC Paris, L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales

2018 – XVIII WEHC Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Selected publications

Books

The Importance of Constitutional Rules and Property Rights. The German Economy in 1990–2015, Peter Lang Verlag, Berlin 2022, pp. 440.

  • Rev.: M. Moszyński, Book Review: The Importance of Constitutional Rules and Property Rights. The German Economy in 1990–2015, „Studia Historiae Oeconomicae” 2024, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 223–226.
  • 2025, The Fryderyk Skarbek Scientific Award of the Faculty I of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2025 in the Field of Economics.
  • 2024, Distinction of the Polish Association of Economic History in the Competition for the Franciszek Bujak Award for the best book on economic and social history published from 2022 to 2023.
  • 2023, Individual Third Degree Award of the Rector of the University of Lodz for Scientific and Research Achievements in 2022.

The Katyń Massacre. Current Research, eds. D. Bębnowski, F. Musiał, The Institute of National Remembrance, The Janusz Kurtyka Foundation, Warsaw–Cracow 2020, pp. 240.

  • Rev.: T. Wolsza, Najnowsze opracowania oraz wydawnictwa źródłowe o Zbrodni Katyńskiej. Polska edycja raportu komisji Raya Maddena, „Polska 1944/45–1989. Studia i Materiały” 2021, Vol. 19, pp. 263–280.

Papers

Historia gospodarcza jako dyscyplina multiparadygmatyczna. Przegląd głównych podejść badawczych, [in:] Studia z dziejów gospodarczych i społecznych. Księga Pamiątkowa dedykowana Profesorowi Piotrowi Franaszkowi, eds. A. Arkusz, A. Synowiec, TW Historia Iagellonica, Kraków 2025, pp. 213–241 (co-authors: R. Matera, J. Skodlarski).

Ponownie o wyzwaniach dla historii podczas Przeglądu Przeszłość/Przyszłość (Warszawa, 26–27 sierpnia 2023 r.), „Res Historica” 2024, Vol. 57, pp. 1779–1783 (co-author: A. Goszczyński).

Warunki życia ludności, [in:] Łódź poprzez wieki. Historia miasta, Vol. 4: od 1945 roku, ed. K. Lesiakowski, Wydawnictwo UŁ, Łódź 2024, pp. 563–576.

  • 2025, Team First Degree Award of the Rector of the University of Lodz for Scientific Achievements in 2024.
  • 19.07.2024, promotional meeting at the Museum of the City of Lodz – Poznanski Family Palace: link
  • interdisciplinary multi-author project on the 600th anniversary of the city rights of Lodz: link

Udział polskich delegacji w Światowych Kongresach Historii Gospodarczej w latach 1990–2022, "Roczniki Dziejów Społecznych i Gospodarczych" 2023, Vol. 85, pp. 249–274 (co-author: P. Franaszek).

Globalization of Historiography: The Katyn Massacre in the International Publishing Activity of the Janusz Kurtyka Foundation in Warsaw, 2017–2022, "Wschodni Rocznik Humanistyczny" 2023, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 207–220.

Economic Challenges for Africa in Light of Benedict XVI’s Exhortation Africae Munus, "Catholic Social Science Review" 2023, Vol. 28, pp. 67–79.

On Polish Economic Historiography in Exile, 1945–1989, "Economic History of Developing Regions" 2023, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 198–214.

Sprawozdanie z XIX Światowego Kongresu Historii Gospodarczej, Paryż, 25–29 lipca 2022 r., "Roczniki Dziejów Społecznych i Gospodarczych" 2022, Vol. 84, pp. 355–358.

Sprawozdanie z Przeglądu Przeszłość/Przyszłość 2022 – Sulejówek–Warszawa, 26–28 sierpnia 2022 r., "Wschodni Rocznik Humanistyczny" 2022, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 233–237 (co-author: A. Goszczyński).

Sprawozdanie z międzynarodowego seminarium naukowego "Behind the Iron Curtain", Praga, 1–2 III 2019 r., "Roczniki Dziejów Społecznych i Gospodarczych" 2019, Vol. LXXX, pp. 433–436.

Niemcy jako państwo fiskalne w perspektywie instytucjonalnej i historyczno-gospodarczej (1990–2015), "Przegląd Zachodni" 2019, No. 1 (370), pp. 41–58.

Przegląd regulacji praw własności w Polsce w pierwszych miesiącach niepodległości (listopad 1918 – luty 1919), [in:] Społeczny bilans otwarcia polskiej niepodległości w 1918 roku, eds. T. Głowiński, M. Zawadka, Wydawnictwo GAJT, Wrocław 2018, pp. 117–136 (co-author: R. Matera)

Wybrane instytucje włączające w Drugiej Rzeczpospolitej do 1926 roku, "Przegląd Zachodni" 2018, No. 3 (368), pp. 39–55 (co-author: R. Matera).

Wokół przedsiębiorczości katolickiej. Reminiscencje z odczytania Rerum Novarum Leona XIII na nowo, "Łódzkie Studia Teologiczne" 2018, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 197–210.

The Attractiveness of the Project of Practical Methodology and Virtue Epistemology for the Economic History Research, "Annales. Ethics in Economic Life" 2017, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 107–125.

Mundur i ziemia. Casus Witolda Pileckiego jako ziemianina, [in:] Wrocławskie Spotkania z Historią Gospodarczą. Spotkanie XII: W garnizonie i na kwaterze… Wojskowi i cywile. Społeczne i gospodarcze relacje na ziemiach polskich na przestrzeni wieków, eds. R. Klementowski, M. Zawadka, Wydawnictwo GAJT, Wrocław 2017, pp. 131–143.

Kategoria ziemi w świetle wybranych tekstów i przemówień Prymasa Tysiąclecia, [in:] Rola Kościołów w życiu gospodarczym ziem polskich, eds. K. Kowalski, R. Matera, A. Pieczewski, Wydawnictwo UŁ, Łódź 2017, pp. 229–246.

Czy historia jest nauką tylko o przeszłości?, "Transformacje. Pismo Interdyscyplinarne" 2016, No. 1–2 (88–89), pp. 30–44.

Analiza statystyczna wybranych aspektów handlu zagranicznego II Rzeczypospolitej, "Studia z Historii Społeczno-Gospodarczej XIX i XX Wieku" 2016, Vol. XVI, pp. 157–187.

Religia jako instytucja oraz przedmiot badań historyczno-gospodarczych, "Humaniora. Czasopismo Internetowe" 2015, No. 3(11), pp. 85–97.

Atrakcyjność projektu metodologii praktycznej i epistemologii cnoty dla badań historyczno-gospodarczych, "Annales. Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym" 2015, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 27–44.

The Social Change in the Marxism’s Interpretation of History, [in:] Vade Nobiscum. Materiały Studenckiego Koła Naukowego Historyków Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Vol. XIII: Bunt, rebelia, rewolucja, strajk. Opór społeczeństwa wobec władzy na przestrzeni dziejów. Skąd przybyliśmy, dokąd zmierzamy? Źródła tożsamości. Gospodarka głupcze!, eds. K. Banaś, R. Stasiak, Piktor, Łódź 2014, pp. 23–27.

Bilans handlu zagranicznego II Rzeczypospolitej. Próby przezwyciężania kryzysów, [in:] Wiek XX wiekiem kryzysu? Kryzys człowieczeństwa, czyli ludobójstwa w minionym stuleciu, ed. J. Gałuszka, Wydawnictwo KNHS UJ, Kraków 2014, pp. 20–32.

Wpływ deportacji Żydów zachodnioeuropejskich na sytuację aprowizacyjną getta łódzkiego w 1941 r. w świetle Kroniki getta łódzkiego, [in:] Rola Żydów w rozwoju gospodarczym ziem polskich, eds. J. Skodlarski, A. Pieczewski, Wydawnictwo UŁ, Łódź 2014, pp. 247–263.

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