Prof. Dr. Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast

• Labour migration from the 19th - 21st centuries and free movement of workers in Europe
• Economic and social history of East Central Europe (especially since the First World War)
• East Central European border regions
• Socialist Transformation / Socialist Industrialisation
• Economic nationalism in East Central Europe
• European history of technology and engineering
• Economic integration processes in East Central Europe
• German-Polish relations

Books

Monographs and co-authorships:

• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Stahlgiganten in der sozialistischen Transformation. Nowa Huta in Krakau, EKO in Eisenhüttenstadt und Kunčice in Ostrava, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2010, 349 pages (=Studien zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte Ostmitteleuropas, Band 20).
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Katarzyna Stokłosa: Geteilte Städte an Oder und Neiße. Frankfurt (Oder) - Słubice, Guben - Gubin und Görlitz - Zgorzelec 1945-1995, Berlin 2000, 258 pages.

As Editor:

• Jutta Günther, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Udo Ludwig, Hans-Jürgen Wagener (Hg.): Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition — Evidence from East Germany and Poland. London: Palgrave Macmillan 2024
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Uwe Rada (eds.): Zapomniana granica. Polsko-niemieckie poszukiwanie śladów od Górnego Śląska po Bałtyk, Kraków: Wydawnictwo JAK, 2020, 263 pages.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Uwe Rada (eds.): Die vergessene Grenze. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche von Oberschlesien bis zur Ostsee, Berlin: Bebra Verlag, 2018, 256 pages.
• Uwe Müller, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast (eds.): Comecon revisited. Integration in the Eastern Bloc and Entanglements with the Global Economy (Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, 2017/5-6), 195 pages.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Małgorzata Szajbel-Keck (eds.): Was sind Polenstudien? 13 Antworten / Czym są Studia o Polsce? 13 odpowiedzi, (Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, Band 5), Berlin: epubli 2017.
• Christina Elschner, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Stephan Kudert (eds.): Unternehmensbesteuerung in Ostmitteleuropa: Bestandaufnahme, Entwicklungen und praktische Fragen nach 10 Jahren EU-Osterweiterung / Opodatkowanie przedsiębiorstw w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej: stan obecny, tendencje i aspekty praktyczne 10 lat po rozszerzeniu Unii Europejskiej na Wschód, Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, Bd. 3, Berlin: epubli 2015.
• Tim Buchen, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Mark Keck-Szajbel, Katharina Kowalski (eds.): Demographischer Wandel in Deutschland, Polen und Europa. Geschichte, Verflechtungen und neue Forschungsperspektiven, Berlin: epubli 2014, (Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2).
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Laura Kiel, Marek Kłodnicki (eds.): Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit zwischen Polen und Deutschland – eine Zwischenbilanz aus unterschiedenen Perspektiven / Swobodny przepływ pracowników między Polską a Niemcami – próba bilansu z różnych perspektyw (Interdisciplinary Polish Studies 1), Berlin, epubli 2014.
• Jutta Günther, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast (eds.): Willkommene Investoren oder nationaler Ausverkauf? Ausländische Direktinvestitionen in Ostmitteleuropa im 20. Jahrhundert, Berlin: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag 2006, 380 pages.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Torsten Lorenz, Uwe Müller und Katarzyna Stokłosa (eds.): Soziale Konflikte und nationale Grenzen in Ostmitteleuropa. Festschrift für Helga Schultz zum 65. Geburtstag, Wałbrzych: Wind Books und Berlin: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag 2006, 210 pages.
• Helga Schultz, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Torsten Lorenz, Uwe Müller (eds.): Wirtschaftsnationalismus in Ostmitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Forschungsbericht 2006, Frankfurter Institut für Transformationsstudien, Frankfurt (Oder), 2006, 42 pages.

Articles and contributions:

• Jutta Günther, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Udo Ludwig, Hans-Jürgen Wagener: Development and Modernization Under Socialism and After: An Introduction. In: Günther, Jutta; Jajeśniak-Quast Dagmara; Ludwig, Udo; Wagener, Hans-Jürgen (Hg.): Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition — Evidence from East Germany and Poland. London: Palgrave Macmillan 2024, S. 1-31.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: When Backwardness Became an Advantage: Professional Stays Abroad in the West as Midwife of the Transformation in Poland. In: Günther, Jutta; Jajeśniak-Quast Dagmara; Ludwig, Udo; Wagener, Hans-Jürgen (Hg.): Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition — Evidence from East Germany and Poland. London: Palgrave Macmillan 2024, S. 271 –298.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Als Rückständigkeit zum Vorteil wurde. Berufliche Auslandsaufenthalte des „kommunistischen Kaders“ im Westen als Geburtshilfe der Transformation in Polen, in: Falk Flade, Anna M. Steinkamp, Konrad Walerski (Hg.): Transformation in Polen und Ostdeutschland. Voraussetzungen, Verlauf und Ergebnisse, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022, S. 205-222.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Lars Kirchhoff, René Wilke, Susann Worschech: Wandel, Ambivalenz und Resilienz: Zusammendenken von Transformations- und Konfliktforschung im Lichte der Fallstudie Frankfurt (Oder)/Słubice, in: Konflikt Dynamik, 2/2022, S. 82-96.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: (A)symmetry in economic relations? German–Polish integration in the EU single market, in: Elżbieta Opiłowska, Monika Sus (eds.): Poland and Germany in the European Union: The Multidimensional Dynamics of Bilateral Relations. London: Routledge, 2021, S. 130-148.
• Jajeśniak-Quast, Dagmara (2021): (A)symmetry in economic relations? German–Polish integration in the EU single market. (Ch. 7)
• In Elżbieta Opiłowska, Monika Sus (eds.): Poland and Germany in the European Union: The Multidimensional Dynamics of Bilateral Relations. London: Routledge.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Uwe Rada: Zapomniana granica albo gdzie właściwie leżą Neu Bentschen i Zbąszyń, in: Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Uwe Rada (eds.): Zapomniana granica. Polsko-niemieckie poszukiwanie śladów od Górnego Śląska po Bałtyk, Kraków: Wydawnictwo JAK, 2020, p. 13-28.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Uwe Rada: Die vergessene Grenze oder Wo liegt eigentlich Neu Bentschen und Zbąszyń?, in: Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Uwe Rada (eds.): Die vergessene Grenze. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche von Oberschlesien bis zur Ostsee, Berlin: Bebra, 2018, p. 9-24.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Neue Dimensionen der Produktionsfaktoren. Verflechtungen in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften als Forschungsproblem der Wirtschaftsgeschichte, in: Jörg Hackmann, Peter Oliver Loew (eds.): Verflechtungen in Politik, Kultur und Wirtschaft im östlichen Europa. Transnationalität als Forschungsproblem, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2018, p. 113–130.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Conclusions: The Multiple International Dimensions of Comecon.New Interpretations of Old Phenomena, in: Uwe Müller, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, (eds.), Comecon revisited. Integration in the Eastern Bloc and Entanglements with the Global Economy (= Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, 2017/5-6), p. 140-149.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Młode badania polonoznawcze (nie tylko) na Viadrinie, in: Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Małgorzata Szajbel-Keck (eds.): Was sind Polenstudien? 13 Antworten / Czym są Studia o Polsce? 13 odpowiedzi (Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, Band 5), Berlin: epubli 2017.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: B/ORDER IN MOTION: The German-Polish Border from the System Transformation until the Present-Day European Integration, in: Eurasia Border Review Vol. 8, No. 1; 2017, p. 31-44.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Christina Elschner: Grenzüberschreitende Arbeit: Bestandsaufnahme nach den ersten Jahren Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit zwischen Polen und Deutschland. Auswirkungen auf Steuer und Sozialversicherung. In: Elschner, Christina, Jajeśniak-Quast, Dagmara, Kudert, Stephan (eds.): Unternehmensbesteuerung in Ostmitteleuropa: Bestandaufnahme, Entwicklungen und praktische Fragen nach 10 Jahren EU-Osterweiterung/Opodatkowanie przedsiębiorstw w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej: stan obecny, tendencje i aspekty praktyczne 10 lat po rozszerzeniu Unii Europejskiej na Wschód, Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, Bd. 3, Berlin: epubli 2015, p. 121-138.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Christina Elschner: Praca transgraniczna: Bieżąca sytuacja po pierwszych latach swobodnego przepływu pracowników między Polską i Niemcami. Skutki dla podatków i ubezpieczeń społecznych, in: Elschner, Christina, Jajeśniak-Quast, Dagmara, Kudert, Stephan (eds.): Unternehmensbesteuerung in Ostmitteleuropa: Bestandaufnahme, Entwicklungen und praktische Fragen nach 10 Jahren EU-Osterweiterung/Opodatkowanie przedsiębiorstw w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej: stan obecny, tendencje i aspekty praktyczne 10 lat po rozszerzeniu Unii Europejskiej na Wschód, Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, Bd. 3, Berlin: epubli 2015, p. 379-396.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: „Hidden Integration“- RGW-Wirtschaftsexperten in europäischen Netzwerken, in: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte/ Economic History Yearbook, 2014/1, p. 179-195.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: „Polnische Wirtschaft” und „German Mittelstand” - Antworten auf die Krise, in: Ernest Kuczyński, Michał Tomczyk (eds): Niemcy, Szwajcaria, Austria na arenie międzynarodowej. Polityka – kultura– gospodarka, Łódź 2014, p. 22-34
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Nowa Huta, Eisenhüttenstadt and Ostrava-Poruba in Early State Socialism: The Proletarianization and Ruralization of New Cities, in: Stanislav Holubec, Włodzimierz Borodziej, Joachim Puttkamer (eds.): Mastery and lost illusions. Space and Time in the Modernization of Eastern and Central Europe, Oldenbourg 2014, p. 121-137.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Die interdisziplinäre und praktische Dimension der Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit, in: Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Laura Kiel, Marek Kłodnicki (eds.): Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit zwischen Polen und Deutschland – eine Zwischenbilanz aus unterschiedenen Perspektiven / Swobodny przepływ pracowników między Polską a Niemcami – próba bilansu z różnych perspektyw (Interdisciplinary Polish-Studies 1), Berlin: epubli 2014, p. 9-20.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Polish Economic Circles and the Question of the Common European Market after World War I, in: Martin Kohlrausch, Katrin Steffen, Stefan Wiederkehr (eds.): Expert Cultures in Central Eastern Europe. The Internationalization of Knowledge and the Transformation of Nation States since World War I, Osnabrück: Fibre Verlag 2010, p. 127-144.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Polen, die ČSSR und die Europäische Gemeinschaft während des Kalten Krieges, in: Bernd Greiner, Christian Th. Müller, Claudia Weber (eds.): Ökonomie im Kalten Krieg, Hamburg: Hamburger Edition 2010 (=Studien zum Kalten Kireg, Band 4), p. 370-394.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Ein lokaler “Rat für gegenseitige Wirtschaftshilfe”: Eisenhüttenstadt, Kraków Nowa Huta und Ostrava Kunčice, in: Christoph Bernhardt, Heinz Reif (eds.): Sozialistische Städte zwischen Herrschaft und Selbstbehauptung. Kommunalpolitik, Stadtplanung und Alltag in der DDR, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2009 (=Beiträge zur Stadtgeschichte und Urbanisierungsforschung, Bd. 5), s. 95-114.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Iron and steel permeating through the Iron Curtain: Poland, Czechoslovakia, the GDR and neutral states, in: Gertrude Enderel-Burcel, Piotr Franaszek, Dieter Stiefel, Alice Teichová (eds.): Gaps in the Iron Curtain. Economic relations between neutral and socialist countries in Cold War Europe, Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2009, p. 270-287.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Nowa Huta – Eisenhüttenstadt. Wirtschaftliche und zwischenmenschliche Kontakte auf Betriebsebene. Histoire croisée oder „Freundschaftstheater“?, in: Studia Historiae Oeconomicae, Poznań: UAM, Vol. 27/2009, p. 281-291.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Die sozialistische Planstadt Eisenhüttenstadt im Vergleich mit Nowa Huta und Ostrava Kunice, in: Thomas Bohn (ed.): Von der „europäischen Stadt“ zur „sozialistischen Stadt“ und zurück? Urbane Transformationen im östlichen Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts, München: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2009, p. 99-113.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: In the Shadow of the Factory: Steel Towns in Postwar Eastern Europe, in: Mikael Hård, Thomas J. Misa (Ed.): Urban Machinery: Inside Modern European Cities, Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2008, p. 187-210.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Reaktionen auf die westeuropäische Wirtschaftsintegration in Ostmitteleuropa: die Tschechoslowakei und Polen von den fünfziger bis zu den siebziger Jahren, in: ZeitRäume, Potsdamer Almanach 2007, Potsdam 2008, p. 140-151.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Transformacja socjalistyczna w Polsce po 1945 r. na przykładzie Nowej Huty [Die sozialistische Transformation in Polen nach 1945 am Beispiel von Nowa Huta], in: Elżbieta Kościk, Tomasz Głowiński (eds.): Gospodarka i społeczeństwo w czasach PRL-u [Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in den Zeiten der VR Polen], Wrocław: GAJT, 2007, p. 98-104.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Reaktionen auf die westeuropäische Wirtschaftsintegration in Ostmitteleuropa: die Tschechoslowakei und Polen von den fünfziger bis zu den siebziger Jahren, in: Journal of European Integration History, Volume 13, No. 2, 2007, p. 69-84.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Die Auseinandersetzung um „Fremdkapital“ und ausländische Direktinvestitionen in Ostmitteleuropa im 20. Jahrhundert, in: Helga Schultz, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Torsten Lorenz, Uwe Müller (eds.): Wirtschaftsnationalismus in Ostmitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Forschungsbericht 2006, Frankfurt (Oder): Frankfurter Institut für Transformationsstudien 2006, p. 15-21.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Ausländische Direktinvestitionen und das „Fremdkapital“ – eine Einführung, in: Jutta Günther, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast (eds.): Willkommene Investoren oder nationaler Ausverkauf? Ausländische Direktinvestitionen in Ostmitteleuropa im 20. Jahrhundert, Berlin: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag 2006, p. 11-46.
• Jutta Günther, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Direktinvestitionen in der Zwischenkriegszeit und nach 1990 – erste Ergebnisse eines nicht ganz einfachen Vergleichs, in: Jutta Günther, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast (eds.): Willkommene Investoren oder nationaler Ausverkauf? Ausländische Direktinvestitionen in Ostmitteleuropa im 20. Jahrhundert, Berlin: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag 2006, p. 339-356.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Unverzichtbar, aber unbeliebt. Das Problem des „Fremdkapitals“ in den polnischen Parteiprogrammen des „nationalen Lagers“ in der Zwischenkriegszeit und heute, in: Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Torsten Lorenz, Uwe Müller, Katarzyna Stokłosa (eds.): Soziale Konflikte und nationale Grenzen in Ostmitteleuropa. Festschrift für Helga Schultz zum 65. Geburtstag, Wałbrzych: Wind Books und Berlin: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag 2006. p. 103-110.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: „Proletarische Internationalität“ ohne Gleichheit. Ausländische Arbeitskräfte in ausgewählten sozialistischen Großbetrieben, in: Christian Th. Müller, Patrice G. Poutrus (eds.): Ankunft – Alltag – Ausreise. Migration und interkulturelle Begegnung in der DDR-Gesellschaft, Köln, Weimar, Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2005, p. 267-294.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Deutsch-polnische Kooperation auf kommunaler Ebene, in: Horst Brezinski, Karl von Delhaes (eds.): Die Entwicklung interregionaler Netzwerke und länderübergreifender Kooperation in Ostmitteleuropa, Freiberg 2005, p. 38-68.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Die ersten Versuche der Dezentralisierung der sozialistischen Planwirtschaft in Polen. Höhepunkte der Debatten über die Wirtschaftsreformen (1956-1968), in: Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Jörg Requate, unter Mitarbeit von Maria Köhler-Baur (eds.): Aufbruch in die Zukunft. Die 1960er zwischen Planungseuphorie und kulturellem Wandel. DDR, CSSR und Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Vergleich, Velbrück Wissenschaft, Weilerswist 2004, p. 89-106.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Geteilte Städte an Oder und Neiße. Vergangenheit – Gegenwart – Zukunft, in: Neues Lausitzisches Magazin. Zeitschrift der Oberlausitzischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Görlitz e.V., Neue Folge Band 5/6, Görlitz Zittau, 2002/2003, p. 129-140.
• Helga Schulz, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Katarzyna Stokłosa: Twin Towns on the Border as Laboratories of European Integration, Arbeitsberichte/Diskussion Papers des Frankfurter Institut für Transformationsstudien, No. 4/02, Frankfurt (Oder), 2002.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: The “European Coal and Steel Community” of the East: the Comecon and the failure of socialist integration, in: Uwe Müller, Helga Schultz (eds.): National Borders and Economic Disintegration in Modern East Central Europe, Berlin 2002, p. 223-244.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Soziale und politische Konflikte der Stahlarbeiter von Nowa Huta während der Sozialistischen Transformation, in: Bohemia 42/2, Veröffentlichungen des Collegium Carolinum, München 2001, p. 244-268.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Katrzyna Stokłosa: Geteilte Städte an Oder und Neisse – Schicksal und Aufgabe, in: Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA), Fürst-Pückler-Land GmbH (ed.): Deutsch-Polnische und andere Grenzstädte – Die Grenze als Chance, Dokumentation zur Konferenz in Guben-Gubin, Frankfurt (Oder)-Słubice vom 19.-21.10.2000, Zwickau 2001, p. 18-23.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Kommunalwirtschaftliche Kooperation geteilter Städte an Oder und Neiße, in: Helga Schultz (ed.): Grenzen im Ostblock und ihre Überwindung, Berlin 2001, p. 275-296.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Poland. The political situation in Poland since 1989, in: Liberal International (ed.): Research Paper, No. 3, London 1997.
• Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast: Deutsch-polnische Verhältnisse in den Grenzstädten seit 1945 am Beispiel von Frankfurt (Oder) – Słubice und Guben – Gubin, in: Deutsch-Polnisches Literaturbüro Oderregion e.V. (ed.): Frankfurter Blätter, Heft 10, Frankfurt (Oder) 1997.

• April 2023: Appointment as Vice-President of the European University Viadrina Frankfrut (Oder) for International Affairs and Collegium Polonicum
• April 2014: Appointment as university professor at the European University Viadrina Frankfrut (Oder)
• May 2013: Habilitation at the University of Siegen with the thesis: "Between Hammer and Anvil - Concepts and Practice of Economic Integration in East Central Europe from the Interwar Period to the Present", Venia legendi: European History with a focus on Economic History.
• April 2012 - April 2014: Substitute professorship and head of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies (ZIP) at the European University Viadrina (EUV).
• 2011-2012: Research associate at the Humanities Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe at the University of Leipzig (GWZO) in the project group "East Central Europe transnational" led by Prof. Dr. Frank Hadler and Prof. Dr. Matthias Middell.
• 2010–2011: Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (NIAS).
• 2008-2010: Research associate at the University of Erfurt, Professorship for the History of East Central Europe of Prof. Dr. Claudia Kraft.
• 2005-2008: Research associate at the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF), in the DFG project "Economic Integration Processes and their Perception in Western and Eastern Europe" led by Prof. Dr. André Steiner.
• 2005: PhD at the EUV ("Iron and steel - our daily bread for industry." Eisenhüttenstadt, Kraków Nowa Huta and Ostrava-Kunčice in the socialist transformation).
• 2002-2005: Research associate at the Research Centre for Economic and Social History of East Central Europe at the EUV and coordinator of the VW project "Economic Nationalism in East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries" led by Prof. Dr. Helga Schultz.
• 1992-1998: Studied business administration at the EUV.
• 1994-1995: Attended William Rainey Harper College - Palatine, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• 1991-1992: Professional training as a secretary at the Policealne Studium Sekretarskie in Kraków.
• 1987-1991: Attended the XII. Lyceum in Kraków / Abitur.
• 1972: born in Kraków (Republic of Poland).

Awards

• 2011: Call for a long-term lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague, at the Institute of Economic and Social History, Prague (declined)
• 2010/2011: Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (NIAS).
• 2008: Admission to the Transatlantic Dialogue of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the American Philosophical Society in the framework of the CONNECT Programme
• 2007-2008: International Scholar of Society for the History of Technology (SHOT).
• 2002: Research fellowship of the German-Czech Historical Commission in the archives in Prague, Opava and Ostrava
• 2000: Research grant from the Frankfurt Institute for Transformation Studies for archive and library research in Warsaw and Krakow
• 2000: Awarded the Viadrina- Sponsorship award 2000 on the basis of a decision by the Board of Trustees of the Sponsors' Association of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) for a scientific paper on German-Polish affairs, together with Katarzyna Stokłosa
• 1998-2001: Scholarship holder of the graduate funding programme of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation
• 1998: First prize for the best thesis of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation scholarship holders on the topic: "The cooperation in the border towns Frankfurt (Oder) - Słubice and Guben - Gubin since World War II with special consideration of the municipal economy" by the Association of Scholarship Holders and Former Scholarship Holders (VSA) of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation
• 1996-1998: Scholarship holder of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in basic grant funding programme

• 2023 - Interdisciplinary Polish Studies. ZIP Research Colloquium, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS.
• 2023 - The end of a long war: Cieszyn / Český Těšín - a divided city, 2 SWS (together with Ewa Bagłajewska), European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS.
• 2022/23 - Climate change in an interdisciplinary perspective on the example of Frankfurt (Oder) and Slubice, 2 SWS, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS.

• 2022/23 - Polenstudien: Kultur, Literatur, Film, … (together with Eliza Szymańska, Karolina Prykowska-Michalak, Natalia Lemann, Ilona Czechowska and Ernest Kuczyński), 2 SWS, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS.

• 2022 - Interdisciplinary Polish Studies. ZIP Research Colloquium, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS.

• 2022 - From one to four borders. The formation of Poland's eastern border from the establishment of the Second Polish Republic to the present day, 2 SWS (together with Ewa Bagłajewska), European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS.

• 2021/22 - Interdisciplinary Polish Studies. ZIP Research Colloquium, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS.

• 2021/22 - "The Polish Wild West" and the "Cold Homeland" - expulsions and escapes in the Oder region. Practice-relevant Masterseminar in Cooperation with Polish Language Department, Museum Viadrina and the Association „Jugend gegen Gewalt e.V.“; 2 SWS (together with Ewa Bagłajewska), European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS.

• 2021/22 - Ökonomische Probleme von Thomas von Aquin bis zur Modern Monetary Theory, 2 SWS (together with Klaus Weber), European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS.
• 2021 - Interdisciplinary Polish Studies. ZIP Research Colloquium, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS.
• 2021 - MA Seminar Between Backwardness and Modernity. Achievements and failures of socialist modernization in PRL, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS (together with Ewa Bagłajewska and Konrad Walerski).
• 2020/21 - Interdisciplinary Polish Studies. ZIP Research Colloquium, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS
• 2020/21 - MA Lecture: Industry and Culture in Europe, 10th-21st Century Part 3: 19th-21st Century, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS (together with Klaus Weber).
• 2020 - Interdisciplinary Polish Studies. ZIP Research Colloquium, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS.
• 2020 - Between Politics and History: The Polish-Ukrainian Border in the 20th Century. European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS. (with Ewa Bagłajewska)
• 2019/20 - Interdisciplinary Polish Studies. ZIP Research Colloquium. European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS.
• 2019/20 - MA-Seminar: "Politics with history in the background": Polish-Ukrainian relations from the first contacts with the Cossacks in the 14th century until today, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS. (with Ewa Bagłajewska)
• 2019 - Interdisciplinary Polish Studies. ZIP Research Colloquium. European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS.
• 2019 - MA-Seminar: Difficult good beginnings: Polish-German relations since the establishment of the two German states in 1949. European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS. (with Ewa Bagłajewska)
• 2018/19 - Interdisciplinary Polish Studies. ZIP Research Colloquium. European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS.
• 2018/19 - MA Seminar: From Adam Smith to Richard Thaler - what the economic thinkers still have to say today, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS
• 2018/19 - MA-Seminar: "You glorify the foreign, but you don't know your own..." (Stanisław Jachowicz, 1796-1857). Tracing the centuries-old, diverse and changing history of Frankfurt (Oder). European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS. (with Ewa Bagłajewska)
• 2018/19 - BA Seminar: What are Polish Studies? Seminar for BA thesis candidates. European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS.
• 2018 - Interdisciplinary Polish Studies. ZIP Research Colloquium, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS.
• 2018 - MA Seminar: "For dear bread" and free movement of workers - Polish labor migration since the 19th century, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS.
• 2018 - MA Seminar: 1918. The forgotten Border. Seminar und almanac. 1918. Zapomniana granica. Seminarium i almanach. European University Viadrina, Chair for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS (together with Ewa Bagłajewska)
• 2018 - BA Seminar What is Polish Studies? Seminar for BA thesis candidates, European University Viadrina, Chair for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS
• 2017/18 - BA Seminar What is Polish Studies? Seminar for BA thesis candidates, European University Viadrina, Chair for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS
• 2017/18 MA Seminar Poland's Traces in the League of Nations. Between Internationalism and Nationalism, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS
• 2017/18 - MA-Seminar "Rejtan, czyli raport ambasadora" (Jacek Kaczmarski) - "Rejtan, or the Ambassador's Report" (Jacek Kaczmarski). Setna rocznica odzyskania przez Polskę niepodległości w kontekście historycznym, gospodarczym, kulturalnym, społecznym i politycznym - One Hundred Years of Polish Independence in Historical, Economic, Cultural, Social and Political Context. European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS (together with Ewa Bagłajewska).
• 2017/18 - Interdisciplinary Polish Studies. ZIP Research Colloquium. European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 4 SWS.
• 2017 - BA Seminar What is Polish Studies? Seminar for BA thesis candidates, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS.
• 2017 - MA Seminar "Polish Economy" - analityczne podejście do stereotypu w transformacji, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS
• 2017 - MA Seminar "Płynie Wisła płynie po polskiej krainie..." Rzeki jako element krajobrazu geograficznego, kulturowego, gospodarczego i politycznego. ["The Vistula flows through Polish land..." Rivers as an element of the geographical, cultural, economic and political landscape], European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS (together with Ewa Bagłajewska).
• 2017 - ZIP Research Colloquium, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS
• 2016/17 - ZIP Research Colloquium, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS
• 2016/17 - MA-Seminar Obraz społeczeństwa polskiego w filmie - lustrzane odbicie czy krzywe zwierciadło? European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS (together with Ewa Bagłajewska)
• 2016/17 - MA Lecture Industry and Culture in Europe III, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies and, 2 SWS (together with Prof. Dr. Klaus Weber, Chair of Comparative European Economic and Social History)
• 2016 - Research Colloquium Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies
• 2016 - MA-Seminar "Polnische Wirtschaft" - analityczne podejście do stereotypu w transformacji / "Polish Economy" - analytical approaches to a stereotype in transition, European University Viadrina, Chair for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS
• 2016 - Kultura i ekonomia od kuchni, czyli o rozbieraniu się do rosołu i innych (kulinarnych) ekstrawagancjach (with excursion to Bydgoszcz from 4 to 6.05.2016) / A look behind the (culinary) scenes of culture and economy. What Polish Chicken Broth Has to Do with Dropping Shells and Other Extravagances, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS (together with Dr. Ewa Bagłajewska, in cooperation with Writing Fellows).
• 2015 - MA- and Graduate Seminar Inventing Europe: Economic and Technological Exchange in Modern Europe, 2 SWS, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies
• 2015 - Research Colloquium Interdisciplinary Polish Studies in cooperation with the German-Polish Research Institute at the Collegium Polonicum (together with Prof.Dr. Beata Halicka)
• 2015 - MA Seminar Ile Europy w Europie? Procesy integracyjne Europy Środkowschodniej od 1918 r. (How much Europe in Europe? Integration processes of East Central Europe since 1918.), 2 SWS, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies (together with Dr. Ewa Bagłajewska).
• 2014/15 - Research Colloquium Interdisciplinary Polish Studies in cooperation with the German-Polish Research Institute at the Collegium Polonicum (together with Prof.Dr. Beata Halicka)
• 2014/15 - BA/MA seminar "Nie wszystko złoto, co się świeci z góry". Wielcy teoretycy ekonomii, czyli o teorii w praktyce. ("All that glitters is not gold." The great economic theorists or how theory is put into practice.), 2 SWS, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies (together with Dr. Ewa Bagłajewska).
• 2014 - MA Seminar "Polish Economy" - historyczna analiza stereotypu, 2 SWS, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies.
• 2014 - BA seminar Utopia - wyspa szczęśliwa? Mit państwa idealnego w filozofii, ekonomii, literaturze i praktyce, 2 SWS, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies (together with Dr. Ewa Bagłajewska)
• 2014 - MA-Seminar 10 Years of EU Expansion to the East - A Review, 2 SWS, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies (together with Prof. Gunter Verheugen)
• 2014 - Research Colloquium Interdisciplinary Polish Studies in cooperation with the German-Polish Research Institute at the Collegium Polonicum (together with Prof.Dr. Beata Halicka)
• 2013/2014 - MA Seminar Economy and Society in the Concepts of East-Central European Thinkers, 2 SWS, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies
• 2013/2014 - BA Seminar Berlin-Warszawa-Express z postojem we Frankfurcie nad Odrą. Relacje polsko-niemieckie z perspektywy centrum i peryferii, 2 SWS, European University Viadrina, Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies (together with Dr. Ewa Bagłajewska).
• 2013/2014 - Research Colloquium Interdisciplinary Polish Studies in cooperation with the German-Polish Research Institute at the Collegium Polonicum (together with Prof.Dr. Beata Halicka)
• 2013 - Seminar "Póki świat światem nie będzie Niemiec Polakowi bratem" - stosunki polsko-niemieckie w historycznej perspektywie (with an excursion to Gdańsk) - 2 SWS, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies (together with Dr. Ewa Bagłajewska)
• 2013 - Research Colloquium Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies
• 2012/2013 - Seminar Was CMEA self-sufficient? Interconnections of East Central Europe with the World during Socialist Integration (1949-1991), 2 SWS, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies
• 2012/2013 - Seminar Tożsamość Ziemi Obiecanej (with an excursion to Łódź), 2 SWS, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies (together with Dr. Ewa Bagłajewska)
• 2012/2013 - Research Colloquium Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 2 SWS, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Chair of Interdisciplinary Polish Studies
• 2010 - Proseminar "Entrepreneurs and Business Culture in East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries" (with an excursion to Łódź), 2 SWS, University of Erfurt, Department of History
• 2010 - Seminar "The Transfer of Economic and Social Models between Western and Eastern Europe", 2 SWS, University of Erfurt, Department of History
• 2009/2010 - Seminar "Experts, Networks and Technology - New Approaches to the History of European Integration", 2 SWS, University of Erfurt, Department of History
• 2009/2010 - Seminar "Paradigm Shifts and Classical Texts in European Economic and Social History", 2 SWS, University of Erfurt, Department of History
• 2009 - Seminar "German-Polish Relations in Historical Perspective" (Block seminar at the Buchenwald Memorial), University of Erfurt, Department of History
• 2009 - Seminar "The first socialist city in the workers' and peasants' state. History of the Industrial Cities of East Central Europe (with an excursion to Eisenhüttenstadt), 2 SWS, University of Erfurt, Department of History
• 2009 - Seminar "Economy and Society in the Concepts of East Central European Thinkers", 2 SWS, University of Erfurt, Department of History
• 2008/2009 - Proseminar "Migration", 2 SWS, University of Erfurt, Department of History
• 2008/2009 - Advanced seminar "Integration and Disintegration in East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th century", 2 SWS, University of Erfurt, Department of History
• 2006/2007 - Advanced seminar "Behind the Iron Curtain. Economic Relations between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War", 2 SWS (with an excursion to Potsdam), European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Faculty of Cultural Studies
• 2004 - Advanced seminar "Continuity and Change of Foreign Direct Investment in East Central Europe from 1918 to the Present" (with an excursion to the VW plant in Poznań), 2 SWS, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Faculty of Cultural Studies
• 2003 - Basic course in the graduate programme "Paradigm Shifts in Economic and Social History since the Second World War" (with Helga Schultz), 2 SWS, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Faculty of Cultural Studies
• 2000 - Proseminar "Socialist Industrialisation and Privatisation. Two transformation processes using the example of the former Kombinate in Eisenhüttenstadt and Krakow" (with excursion to Nowa Huta and Eisenhüttenstadt), 2 SWS, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Faculty of Cultural Studies

Current research projects

• Research project within the framework of a research network "Obstacles to Modernization in the Economy and Science of the GDR. Emergence and Consequences in an Intra-German Comparison and in Comparison with Neighbouring Countries in Central Eastern Europe": "Preservation of industrial cores through modernisation investments in East Germany and Poland
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Completed research projects

Research projects within the Viadrina Center B/Orders in Motion:

• "European Challenges. Technological Change and Re-Arrangements of Migration and Work".
• "Borders of Employment in Change - Transdisciplinary Research on Subject, Organisation and Law"
• "New Borders of Social Europe in the Course of the Euro Crisis - Property, the Welfare State and Distributive Justice"

Research Network Project:

"Cooperation and Integration in Europe - the multiple international dimensions of the 1970s and early 1980s".

Research project at the Centre for East Central European History and Culture at the University of Leipzig (GWZO):

"Socialist Economic Integration of East Central Europe in the CMEA and its Integration into the World Economy."

Habilitation thesis:

"Anvil or Hammer - Regional and European Integration of East Central Europe in the 20th Century" 

Book series

"Making Europe: Technologies and Transformations 1850-2000"
www.makingeurope.eu