Halicka, Beata

Prof. Dr. Beata Halicka is Professor of Contemporary History at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Her research focuses on forced migration, borderlands, nationalism, collective memory, identity formation, and German-Polish relations. Before joining Adam Mickiewicz University, she taught at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and served as a visiting professor at the University of Calgary and the University of Texas at El Paso. She is the author or editor of numerous books and scholarly publications, including the award-winning Polish Wild West: Forced Migration and Cultural Appropriation in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1945–1948, which received the Identitas Prize for the best historical book published in Poland in 2016. Her recent work explores migration, transnational identities, and the history of the Polish diaspora. Professor Halicka leads the Polish research team in the Mnemonic Democracy: Collective Memory, Civic Education, and Democratic Engagement project and has extensive experience coordinating international research on memory politics, European integration, and borderland societies.

Research interests: nationalism, forced migrations, constructions of identities in border regions, collective memory, German-Polish relations, Polish diaspora in the world.