Zachary Mazur, PhD

Senior Historian, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland
Lecturer, Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Visiting Fellowship 2025/26 (November 30, 2025 – December 15, 2025)

Zachary Mazur earned his PhD at Yale University and is currently a Senior Historian at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw and a lecturer at the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research interests include modern Eastern and Central Europe, national identity, law, and economics.

Statement of interest

My particular interest in INZ’s Visiting Fellowship Program stemmed from my collaboration with an employee of the Institute, Dr Nataša Henig Miščič. We plan to write and submit a joint grant application through the WEAVE program to both the Polish and Slovenian granting agencies. I will be using my time to work with Dr Henig Miščič on clarifying our ideas and distilling the text of the grant application.

Selected publications

To Kill a Spy: Political Violence and Everyday Nationalism in Fin-de-Siècle Europe (forthcoming with CEU Press)

Latest articles & book chapters

“From ‘Social Defense’ to ‘Crimes against Humanity’: The Role of Polish Criminology in post- World War II Justice.” Polish Contributions to Criminology (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2025).
“Citizens without a State: ‘Nationality,’ International Law, and Jewish Emigration to the United States, 1918-1921.” Ethnicizing Europe. Hate and Violence in Post-Versailles Europe. Éva Kovács, Raul Carstocea, Gábor Egry, eds. (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2025).
“Tax Evasion in Post-Imperial Silesia: The Pless Administration vs. the Polish Government.” Roczniki Dziejów Społecznych i Gospodarczych Tom LXXXVI (2024): 135-161.
“Mini-States and Micro-Sovereignty: Local Democracies in East Central Europe, 1918-1923.” Contemporary European History (Vol. 32, Issue 2, 2023).