PROFIL PRACOWNIKA: Zofia Brzozowska

2005–2010 – University of Łódź, Faculty of Philosophy and History, history

2006–2011 – University of Łódź, Faculty of Philology, South Slavic philology

2010–2015 – University of Łódź, Faculty of Philosophy and History, Humanities Doctoral Studies

23 April 2015 – Ph.D. in History

1 July 2022 – University of Łódź, Faculty of Philology, Habilitation in Literary Studies

From 1 October 2022 – <st1:place><st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>Lodz</st1:placename></st1:place>, Faculty of Philology, Department of Slavic Philology (Associate Professor)

From 2015 – employee of the University of Łódź, Faculty of Philology, Department of Slavic Philology [from 2017 – Assistant Professor]

From 2017 – Coordinator for the Acquisition and Implementation of Grants of the Ceraneum Centre of the University of Łódź

• 2013, START Scholarship, funded by the Foundation for Polish Science
• 2013–2014, Scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education
• 2014, Scholarship of the Marshal of the Łódź Region for prominent young researchers
• 2018, Scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for prominent young researchers
• 2021, Polish Academy of Sciences Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Development of Learning for Scholars Working in Łódź Voivodeship (in the field of humanities and social sciences)

RESEARCH PROJECTS:

• Grant of the Ministry of Education and Science (NPRH, National Program for the Development of Humanities, Uniwersalia 2.2), entitled In the shadow of the <st1:place><st1:placename>Polish-Lithuanian</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Commonwealth</st1:placetype></st1:place> or the Russian imperial myth? The Kyivan Synopsis – a monument of the Ukrainian language and historiography of <st1:place>Eastern Europe</st1:place> from the 17th century. Edition, Polish translation and scholarly study, carried out at the Department of Slavic Philology at the Faculty of Philology, <st1:place><st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>Lodz</st1:placename></st1:place>, by a team led by Prof. Halyna Naienko (2023–2027) [Co-Investigator].

• Grant of the National Science Centre (OPUS 24), entitled Hamartolus Re-discovered. The Byzantine Chronicle of George the Monk from the 9th Century in the Light of Previously Unpublished Greek and Church Slavic Manuscripts, carried out in the Ceraneum Centre by a team led by Prof. Mirosław Leszka in collaboration with the University of Białystok (2023–2027) [Co-Investigator].

• Grant of the National Science Centre (BEETHOVEN CLASSIC 4), entitled Orthodox Slavic Linguistic Varieties at the Threshold of Modernity: Continuity and Innovation. A Mixed-Methods Approach, carried out at the Department of Slavic Philology at the Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz, in cooperation with the investigators from the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany. The leader of the Polish part of the project is Prof. Ivan N. Petrov from the Department of Slavic Philology (University of Lodz), and the leader of the German part of the project is Prof. Achim Rabus from the University of Freiburg (2022–2025) [Co-Investigator].

• Grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (NPRH, National Program for the Development of Humanities, Universalia 2.1), entitled Translation into Russian language and publication in “Aletheia” Scientific Publishing House, as a part of the series „Византийская библиотека”, a monograph by Zofia A. Brzozowska „Sofia – upersonifikowana Mądrość Boża. Dzieje wyobrażeń w kręgu kultury bizantyńsko-słowiańskiej”, carried out in the Ceraneum Centre (2020–2024) [Principal Investigator].

• Grant of the National Science Centre (HARMONIA 9), entitled Orthodox Slavic Polemical Writings in the Middle Ages, carried out at the Department of Slavic Philology at the Faculty of Philology, <st1:place><st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>Lodz</st1:placename></st1:place> by a team led by Prof. Georgi Minczew. The project will be implemented in cooperation with foreign partners from universities and academic institutions of <st1:country-region>Bulgaria</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region>Denmark</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region>Italy</st1:country-region> on the formal rights of project co-contractors (2018–2023) [Co-Investigator].

• Grant of the National Science Centre (OPUS 12), entitled Muhammad and the Origin of Islam – Stereotypes, Knowledge and Notions in the Byzantine-Russian Culture, carried out in the Ceraneum Centre by a team led by Zofia Brzozowska (2017–2021) [Principal Investigator].

• Grant of the National Science Centre (HARMONIA 8), entitled Dualist Heresies in the History of South-East Europe (9th-15th century), carried out by a team of Ceraneum workers and members led by Prof. Georgi Minczew in collaborationwith the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2017–2021) [Co-Investigator].

• Grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (NPRH, National Program for the Development of Humanities, Uniwersalia 2.2), entitled The Novgorod First Chronicle – Polish Translation and Scientific Account of the Oldest Chronicle of Novgorod the Great, carried out in the Ceraneum Centre by a team led by Zofia Brzozowska, in collaborationwith the IT Department at the Faculty of Physics and Applied Informatics, University of Łódź (2017–2019) [Principal Investigator].

• Grant of the National Science Centre (HARMONIA 6), entitled The <st1:place><st1:placename>Bulgarian</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>State</st1:placetype></st1:place> in 927–969. The Epoch of Tsar Peter I the Pious, carried out in the Ceraneum Centre by a team led by Prof. Mirosław Leszka in collaborationwith the <st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype> of<st1:placename>Sofia</st1:placename> (<st1:country-region>Bulgaria</st1:country-region>) (2015–2018) [Co-Investigator].

• Grant of the National Science Centre (PRELUDIUM 2), entitled Sophia – Wisdom of God personified. History of perceptions in the Byzantine-Slavic culture, carried out by Zofia Brzozowska in the Department of Byzantine History at the Faculty of Philosophy and History, University of Łódź (2012–2015) [individual project].

• Grant of the Marshal of the Łódź Region (European Regional Development Fund, ERDF) for prominent young researchers, entitled The Patroness of the Historical Orthodox Church in Łódź – <st1:place>St.</st1:place> Princess Olga. Short Biography, Worship History and Polish Translation of the Sources, carried out by Zofia Brzozowska in the Department of Byzantine History, University of Łódź (2014) [individual project].