Dorota Kurek-Śliżewska

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in History, University of Szczecin, 2014 (specialization: Archival Studies)

Master’s degree in History, University of Szczecin, 2016 (specialization: Social History)

PhD candidate in History, Doctoral School, University of Szczecin, 2020 – 2025 (submitted PhD thesis: The Jewish community in German Szczecin in the years 1871–1933)

Research Interests:

My research interests are in the history of ethnic and religious minorities, as well as all other minority and subordinate groups, with special regard to their relations with dominant groups and institutions. Accordingly, I have devoted my master’s thesis to the attitude of Polish authorities towards the small minority of German evangelicals in West Pomeranian region after the end of World War II. My dissertation focused on the history of the Jewish community in Szczecin (then more commonly known Stettin) during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic, pinpointing the issue of their national identity.

As a PhD student in the ERC project BeNaSta – Becoming National Against the State, my research focuses on the nationalisation of Polish peasants in the Prussian partition, their involvement in the Polish national movement, and their conflicts with the German state.

Collaboration in Research Programs and Projects:

• “Topography of Jewish life in Szczecin from the end of the 19th century to the Holocaust” (2021-2024)
• ERC project BENASTA – Becoming National Against the State (2024 – present)

Mobility and Fellowships:

• German Historical Institute Moscow Fellowship, February/March 2020
• DAAD Fellowship, August-October 2021
• Herder Institute Marburg Fellowship, August 2023
• Leo Baeck Institute New York Fellowship (Fritz Halbers Fellowship), October/November 2023

Awards & recognition:

Honourable Mention in the University of Szczecin Competition for the Best Young Researcher (Humanities, Theology, and Social Sciences category)

Selected Publications:

“God and War”. The Jewish Population of Stettin in the Face of World War I, published in: Kwartalnik Historii Żydów – Jewish History Quaterly, 1/285, 2023, pp. 33-60.

„Charytatywni siewcy ideologii nienawiści i odwetu.” Proces członków organizacji Kirchendienst Ost jako element propagandowej walki PRL z rewizjonizmem zachodnioniemieckim, published in: Śląski Kwartalnik Historyczny Sobótka, R. 77, No. 2, 2022, pp. 139-172.