Members of the Institute Board, appointed by President of the Council of Ministers Mateusz Morawiecki
Deputy Piotr Babinetz - President of the Institute Council - a Polish politician, local government member and a historian, 6th, 7th and 8th term Sejm Deputy. A history graduate at University of Wrocław's Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences. Former Krosno councillor and Podkarpackie local government assembly member. He was active within the ranks of the Confederation of Independent Poland (KPN) - Patriotic Bloc (Obóz Patriotyczny) and Right Alliance (Przymierze Prawicy), then he joined Law and Justice (PiS). Since 1995 member, and then after 2001 secretary, of the board at Podkarpackie History Association. Author of scientific articles, such as 'Passage of general Kazimierz Sosnkowski across the Carpathians to Hungary in 1939 - in light of accounts by its participants'. Member of the Polish - Hungarian Parliamentary Group.
Prof. Arkadiusz Adamczyk - Vice President of the Institute Council - Ph.D. (dr. hab.) in Humanities, associate professor at the Jan Kochanowski University (UJK) in Kielce. In 1999 the academic degree of doctor of history was conferred upon him at the University of Lodz, and in 2009 he earned his post-doctoral qualification (habilitation) in political science at the Polish Academy of Sciences' Institute of Political Studies. Since 2010 an associate professor at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Piotrków Trybunalski branch, Philology and History Faculty. Currently a professor at the Law, Administration and Management Faculty, UJK in Kilece. Author of history articles on Hungary related topics, such as 'On the eve of war. Polish and Hungarian capacity to influence the geopolitical shape of Central-Eastern Europe in 1919 - 1939'.
Dr Wojciech Frazik - a Polish historian, bibliographer, independence opposition movement activist during the communist era. As member of the Independent Students' Union he took part in the students' strike at the turn of November 1981. In the 1980s he was a distributor of underground publications. In 2012 he successfully defended his modern history doctorate at the Jagiellonian University. During 1991 - 2000 he was employed as an assistant at the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences and after 2000 member of staff at the Institute of National Remembrance Public Education Branch Office / Historical Research Branch Office in Kraków. Author of the 'Emissary of Free Poland. Wacław Felczak's political biography (1916 - 1993)'.
Dr Csilla Gizińska - graduate of Hungarian studies at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. During 1992 - 2005 a Hungarian literature lecturer at the Hungarian Studies Department of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Currently Department of Hungarian Studies manager at the University of Warsaw. She is engaged with the history of Hungarian literature and the reception of Hungarian drama in Poland. She wrote a book on these subjects entitled 'Hungarian drama of 1945 - 1989 and its life on stages of Poland' as well numerous scientific articles, such as 'Language as a form for expressing the tragedy of being in contemporary Hungarian drama' or 'The Polish knight in Hungarian borderland castles towards the end of the 16th century'.
Dr Marek Natusiewicz - Wrocław University of Technology architecture graduate . During 1977 - 1988 employed at the Voivodeship Spatial Planning Office in Wrocław. Association of Polish Architects member since 1978. Member of "Solidarity" since September 1980, during the marshall law - member of "Solidarność Walcząca". During 1997 - 2001 an expert at the Wrocław Town Council Spatial Development and Architecture Commission. Lecturer at the Wrocław College of Humanities since 2007. Author and co-author of more than 200 publications on architecture, designer of the St. Judas Thaddaeus Church in Jelenia Góra - Czarne. In 2017 he was awarded the Cross of Freedom and Solidarity and the Order of Polonia Restituta Officer's Cross. President of the King Matthias Corvinus Club in Wrocław.
Dr. Marcin Szewczak - Professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, legal adviser. Graduated in Law (KUL), International Relations (UMCS) and M.A. in European Studies at the Peter Pazmany Catholic University in Budapest and the Catholic University of Sacred Heart in Milan. Research fellow at the Department of Local Government Law and Administrative Science of the Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Visiting professor at various universities in Budapest, Ljubljana, Lutsk, Kaunas. Expert of the National Institute of Local Government (Narodowy Instytut Samorządu Terytorialnego). A representative of Lublin Voivodeship local government in the Network of Regional Hubs for EU Policy Implementation Review. Main areas of his research activity include issues related to the law of local government and the law of the European Union, in particular issues related to the law of regional development and international local government cooperation in the Three Seas area. Member of the international Research Network on EU Administrative Law (ReNUAL), the international research organisation Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration, the Polish Association of European Law (Polskie Stowarzyszenie Prawa Europejskiego) and the Polish Forestry Association (Polskie Towarzystwo Leśne). The head of many research projects, e.g. the Polish-Hungarian model of international local governmental cooperation, which resulted in the monograph Model of Polish-Hungarian local governmental international cooperation. Author and co-author of more than 100 academic publications (monographs, articles, keynotes and opinions) and participant of many national and international conferences. Co-organiser and Chairman of the Programme Council of the Three Seas Local Government Congress in Lublin.
Dr Tomasz Pomykacz - historian, graduate of the University of Rzeszów, currently employed at the National Museum of the Przemysl Region in Przemyśl. Author of publications on the political changes in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the interwar period in Hungary, as well as on the participation of Hungarian military units in the battles in Galicia during World War I, with particular focus on the Przemyśl Fortress.
foto: źródło Wikipedia
see also: Presentation of nominations to Institute Board members