Prof. dr hab. Marek Kornat
Marek Kornat is a historian. He is a graduate and the PhD of the Jagiellonian University (UJ) in Kraków in 2000, subsequently he obtained the title of Professor of Humanities in 2015. His scholarly activity focuses on history of Polish diplomacy and international relations in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the issues of the Second Polish Republic (1918-1939). He also deals with the history of Polish political thought, the historiography of totalitarian regimes and the origins and significance of the Sovietology. Since 2011, he has been employed in the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), as Head of the Chair of 20th Century History. Since 2008, he has also been lecturing at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University (UKSW) in Warsaw. He has held internships (or given lectures) at foreign research centres: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, Harriman Institute at Columbia University in New York and Institut für Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna as well as Europäische Institut in Mainz. He has been granted scholarships by, e.g., the Foundation for Polish Science, the De Brzezie Lanckoronski Foundation, the Kościuszko Foundation and the British Academy. He is the author of 10 books and over 300 articles concerning the above issues. He has published, among others, a number of monographs:”Polska1939 roku wobec paktu Ribbentrop-Mołotow” (Warszawa 2002); ”Polska szkoła sowietologiczna (1930—1939)” (Kraków 2002); ”Bolszewizm — totalitaryzm — rewolucja — Rosja. Początki sowietologii i studiów nad systemami totalitarnymi w Polsce (1918—1939)” (Kraków 2003—2004); ”Adam Jerzy Czartoryski. Essai sur la Diplomatie” (Lausanne 2011); ”Polityka zagraniczna Polski 1938–1939. Cztery decyzje Józefa Becka” (Gdańsk 2012); ”Polen zwischen Hitler und Stalin. Studien zur polnischen Außenpolitik in der Zwischenkriegszeit” (Berlin 2012); ”Wacław Grzybowski. Ambasador w Moskwie (1936—1939). Biografia polityczna” (Warszawa 2016); ”Poland and the Origins of the Second World War. A Study in Diplomatic History (1938—1939)” (Berlin 2021). He is also the co-author (together with Prof. Mariusz Wołos) of a new biography of Polish Foreign Minister, Józef Beck (Kraków 2020).