Halicka, Beata
Dr. Beata Halicka is a professor of contemporary history at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She lectured at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) between 2006 and 2014 and was a visiting professor at the universities in Calgary (2014), Chicago (2015) und in 2016 in El Paso (USA). She is author or editor of eight books and has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes. For the study Polish Wild West. Forced Migration and Cultural Appropriation in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1945-1948 she received the Identities Prize 2016 for the best historical book in Poland. Her recent book Life in the Borderlands: Z. Anthony Kruszewski – A Biography has been published by Polish Academy of Science in 2019.
Research interests: nationalism, forced migrations, constructions of identities in border regions, collective memory, German-Polish relations, Polish diaspora in the world.
Listing Details
| Institution: | Adam Mickiewicz University |
| Fields of Expertise: | Borders Collective Identity Cultural Memory and Policy Historical Injustice and Trauma Memory Politics Migration Nationalism and Extremism |
| Research groups: | Memory Politics |
| Email: | beata.halicka@amu.edu.pl |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English, German, Polish |
| Publications: | Beata Halicka: Borderlands Biography. Z. Anthony Kruszewski in wartime Europe and postwar America. Brill/Ferdinand Schönningh, Leiden 2021. Beata Halicka: The Polish Wild West. Forced Migration and Cultural Appropriation in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1945-1948. Routledge, London and New York 2020. Pour notre et votre liberté /For Your Freedom and Ours. Polish refugees of war as soldiers and resistance fighters in Western Europe. In: Nuova Antologia Militare, Rome, Anno 2 – Fascicolo Speciale DOI: 10.36158/978889295270622 September 2021, p. 305-332. |
