The aim of the project is presentation French emigration to Polish territories at the time of the French Revolution (1789-1799). The proposed project plans to study the situation and the conditions of the stay of those groups and individuals that made a decision to flee from France fearing for their lives and in order to avoid possible repressions and found asylum on Polish territories.
emigration from Polish lands in the 19th and 20th centuries;
Polish-Scandinavian contacts;
Museology;
Research area (areas): Latin Epigraphy, Administration of the Roman Empire, History of Roman Provinces (especially Proconsular Africa during Principate), History of Historiography, Methodology of History
Culture and history of art of Europe of the Middle Ages and modern times, especially of Slavic Orthodox and Byzantine World; the history of the culture of the Eastern Church in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, especially the history of icon painting in relation to other centers of orthodox painting
Research area: The economy (trade, shipping, economic policy, economic thought), and material culture of Sweden in the 17th and 18th c.; Swedish-Polish relations in the modern era; The formation of public opinion in the modern era (16th-18th c.): Polish opinions on Sweden and the image of Poland and its inhabitants in Sweden.
Displaced Persons memoirs project, community archives: With UG PH.D. STUDENTS: Iwona Flis. https://polishamericanstudies.org/text/180/memoirs-.html
with UG PhD student Jarosław Zawada
With UG PhD student Anna Podciborska
Assoc. Prof., Dr hab.Magdalena Nowak works in the Department of the Contemporary Polish History in the Institute of History, University of Gdańsk. In 2019 she has successfully completed her habilitation at the Faculty of History, University of Gdańsk. She specializes in Polish-Ukrainian relations in the 19th and 20th century. Her academic interests have been recently focused on the relations between the Catholic Churches of the Greek and the Latin rite.