Paulina Gulińska-Jurgiel studied Cultural Studies at the European University Viadrina. She completed her doctorate there in 2009 with a thesis on European discourses in the so-called Eastern Bloc with a focus on the cultural and political press in the People’s Republic of Poland, the ČSSR and the GDR in the 1960s and 1970s. She has been at the MLU Halle since 2014, initially as coordinator and research assistant at the Aleksander Bruckner Centre for Polish Studies, and from October 2024 as research assistant at the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History. She received her Habilitation in 2022 with a thesis on “European and Global Contexts in Coming to Terms with the Past in Poland in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Concepts – Practices – Impact.”
Research focus: reappraisal of the past in Europe after 1945, comparative transformation research, the history of Poland and Eastern-central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries.
