Lidia Michalska-Bracha – Deputy Director of the Doctoral School – Appointed as a Full Professor!

We are pleased to announce that Prof. dr hab. Lidia Michalska-Bracha, Deputy Director of the Doctoral School, has been awarded the title of Professor of Humanities in the discipline of history by the President of the Republic of Poland on May 15, 2024. Congratulations to Professor Lidia Michalska-Bracha!

Prof. dr hab. Lidia Michalska-Bracha is a historian and a professor at the Institute of History at Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, as well as the Deputy Director of the Doctoral School at UJK. She has been a collaborator with the Commission on Theory and History of Historiography and Methodology of History at the Committee on Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2020-2023) and a member of the ministerial advisory team for projects submitted under the Support for Scientific Journals program (2018-2021). She was also a scholarship recipient of the Historical and Literary Society in Paris named after Dr. Maria Zdziarska-Zaleska (2009) and a guest of the Polish Historical Mission in Würzburg (2015).

Her research has been conducted in international centers in France, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, and Lithuania. Her scientific interests include the January Uprising and the veterans of 1863, the fate of Poles in emigration and Siberia in the 19th century, the history of Galicia, women’s history, and the history of historiography in the 19th-20th centuries. She has participated in NPRH projects, including “Diaries and Letters of Polish Authors from the Annexed Territories (Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine) in 1795-1918” and “Polish Exiles in Western Siberia in the Second Half of the 18th-19th Centuries in the Eyes of Russians and Siberian Inhabitants” under the direction of W. Caban, as well as in the Polish-Ukrainian Research Team: “Galicia 1772-1918” at the University of Rzeszów (2010-2017). She is the author of over 160 scientific publications.