Faculty of History Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznaniu ul. Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 7 61-614 Poznań, Poland email: ewa.domanska@amu.edu.pl |
Department of Anthropology Main Quad, bldg 50 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2034 email: ewa.domanska@stanford.edu (Spring term only) |
INTERESTS
comparative theory of the humanities and social sciences ● theory and history of historiography ● methodologies of the past ● postanthropocentic and non-European approaches to the past ● ecocide and genocide studies ● dead body studies ● ecological humanities
EDUCATION
1995 – Ph.D.: Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland). Dissertation topic: Historiography in the Light of Narrative and the Postmodern Turn in the Humanities. Promotor: Jerzy Topolski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan); reviewers: Franklin R. Ankersmit (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Holland) and Hans Kellner (Texas University at Arlington, USA)
2007 – habilitation: Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland). Process based on the acedemic achievements and the book: Historie niekonwencjonalne. Refleksja o przeszlosci w nowej humanistyce [Unconventional Histories. Reflections on the Past in the New Humanities]. Poznan: Wydawnictwo Poznanskie, 2006, pp. 323.
2016 – professor of human sciences (conferred by the President of the Republic of Poland upon a motion of the Central Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland). Process based on the academic achievements and the book: Historia egzystencjalna. Krytyczne studium narratywizmu i humanistyki zaangażowanej [Existential History. Critical Approach to Narrativism and Emancipatory Humanities]. Warszawa: PWN, 2012, pp. 223.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
September 1, 2018 – full professor of human sciences [profesor zwyczajny], Department of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland)
February 1, 2010 – Adam Mickiewicz University Professor in Theory and History of Historiography [profesor nadzwyczajny] Department of History, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland)
June 18, 2007 – associate professor in Theory and History of Historiography [adiunkt], Department of History, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland)
since 2002 (Spring Term) – visiting assistant professor, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University (USA), since March 2008 visiting associate professor, since March 2017 visiting professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
- since 2009 – affiliated faculty of the Center for Russian, East European & Euroasian Studies [CREEES], Stanford University
GRANTS
2012-2014 – Foundation for Polish Science, “Master” Program. Project: “Rescue History” (grant holder)
2014-2017 – National Science Center (Poland), OPUS-6. Project: “Necros: An Introduction to the Ontology of the Dead Body” (grant holder)
2016-2017 – research fellow of the international grant: “After Discourse: Things, Archaeology and Heritage in the 21th Century” (Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters)
2017-2021 – member of the panel of external scholars – international grant “Unruly Heritage: An Archaeology of the Anthropocene”, The Arctic University of Norway (The Norwegian Research Council / FRIPRO Toppforsk)
2018–2021 – member of an International Advisory Panel – international grant “My Favourite Things: Material Culture Archives, Cultural Heritage and Meaning”, The Centre for Microhistorical Research at the Institute of History, University of Iceland (The Icelandic Research Fund)
2019-2022 – Core Concepts of Historical Thinking – The Foundation for Polish Sciences (FNP) „TEAM grant” (participant)
FELLOWSHIPS
2000-2001 – Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship. Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University, USA. Adviser: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
1999-2002 – Civic Education Project Fellow
1998 – Fellow at the School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University (Ithaca)
1997 – Fellow scholar at the Center of Cultural Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz
1995-1996 – Fulbright’s Junior Grant. University of California at Berkeley. Post-doctoral studies. Adviser: Hayden White
1992-1993 – Doctoral studies at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (The Netherlands). Adviser: Franklin R. Ankersmit. (The Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education (NUFFIC), Faculty of Arts, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
AWARDS
- 2013 – nominated for the “European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities”
- 2013 – nominated for the Jan Dlugosz book prize for the book: Historia egzystencjalna / Existential History
- 4 prizes of the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan for research achievements (1999, 2000, 2001, 2007, 2013)
- 2017 – 1st degree prize of the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan for organization achievements
- 2018 – nominated for the Jan Dlugosz book prize for the book: Nekros. Wprowadzenie do ontologii martwego ciała, PWN 2017 [Necros: An Intoduction to the Ontology of Human Dead Body and Remains]
- 2018 – the Rector’s of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan stipend for extraordinary scholarly achievements.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2020 – Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS)
- 2015 – member of the Committee of the Cultural Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- 2016 – member of the Committee of Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences
2014-2016 – member of the Council of National Programme for the Development of Humanities (Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland)
2015 – President of the „International Commission for Theory and History of Historiography” (ICHTH / CISH)
2008 – member of the international foundation “Imitatio. Integrating the Human Sciences”
editorial boards
- since 2002 – member of the editorial board “Storia della Soriografia” (Italy)
- since 2004 – academic advisor of the journal „Frontiers of Historiography” (China)
- since 2005 – member of the editorial board of the journal „Ейдос. Альманах теорії та історії історичної науки” (Ukraine)
- since 2007 – academic advisor of the „Journal of Interdisciplinary Crossroad” (Indie)
- since 2008 – member of the editorial board of the journal „Historyka” (Poland)
- since 2009 – co-operative of the online journal „Postcolonial Europe” (Sweden)
- since 2011 – member of the editorial board of the journal “Porównania”/Comparisons (Poland)
- since 2012 – member of the editorial board of the journal „Teksty Drugie”/Second Texts (Poland
- since 2012 – member of the scientific board of the journal „História da Historiografia” (Brasil)
- since 2012 – member of the editorial board of the journal „Journal of History & Thought” (China)
- since 2013 – member of the editorial board of the journal „Forum Historiae” (Czech Republic)
- since 2013 – member of the scientific board of the journal „Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze” (Poland)
- since 2014 – member of the scientific board of the journal „Journal of Contemporary Archaeology” (England)
- since 2015 – member of the scientific board of the journal “Narracje o Zagładzie” (Poland)
- since 2016 – member of the Advisory Board of the journal “Norwegian Archaeological Review” (Norway)
- since 2016 – member of the editorial board of the journal “Artium Questiones” (Poland)
- since 2018 – member of the editorial board of the journal „Dějiny – Teorie – Kritika” (Czech Republic)
- since 2018 – member of the scientific board of the journal „Humanistyka i Przyrodoznawstwo” [Humanities and Natural Sciences] (Poland)
- since 2020 – member of the editorial board of the journal „Kwartalnik Historyczny”/ Historical Quarterly (Poland)