Mikołaj Kunicki

I received PhD in history, with focus on contemporary European history, at Stanford University. I also hold MA degrees from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) in London, Central European University (CEU), and University of Warsaw. I work on crossroads of film studies, cultural history, and nationalism studies. My historical research and teaching concentrated on 20 th -century Poland and East-Central Europe. I currently focus on Communism, nationalism, and their relationships with popular cultures of cinema and performing arts. I also study the role of film and television in the legitimization of authoritarian regimes and politics of history. I have long had an interest in the use of archival resources in film studies.

Before coming to Wrocław, I taught history at the University of Oxford, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of California at Berkeley. From 2013 to 2016 I was the director of Programme on  Modern Poland and Senior Research Fellow at St Antony’s College. I was the recipient of fellowships at the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, the Freeman Foundation, and the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. From 2016 to 2018 I worked as a national task manager for the United Kingdom in the Horizon 2020 project: COURAGE: Cultural Opposition – Understanding the Cultural Heritage of Dissent in Former Socialist Countries.

I am the author of Between the Brown and the Red: Nationalism, Catholicism and Communism in Twentieth Century Poland (2012) as well as articles and book chapters on 20th-century history, cinema, nationalism and contemporary politics. I also published in The World Today, Kultura Liberalna, Times Literary Supplement, and Eurozine.