Wojciech Śleszyński (born 1970) is a Polish historian and Dean of the History and Sociology Faculty at the University of Białystok. Director of the Memorial Museum Siberia since 2017.
Biography edit
In 1996, he graduated from the History Department at the Białystok campus of the University of Warsaw. In 2001 he received his PhD at the Faculty of History and Sociology of the University of Białystok, based on the dissertation Propaganda i indoktrynacja władz sowieckich na Białostocczyźnie w latach 1939–1941 (Propaganda and indoctrination of the Soviet authorities in the Bialystok region in 1939–1941). In 2008 he received his habilitation at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, with a dissertation Bezpieczeństwo wewnętrzne w polityce państwa polskiego na ziemiach północno-wschodnich II Rzeczypospolitej (Internal security in the policy of the Polish state in the north-eastern territories of the Second Republic of Poland). He received a position of professor in 2019.[1]
Hhe was employed as an academic teacher from 1997. He was the deputy director of the Institute of History of the University of Białystok (2005-2008) and the director of the Institute of History and Political Science of the University of Białystok (2008-2012). In 2008, he was appointed head of the Department of Political Relations of the University of Białystok . In the years 2012-2016, he was the dean of the Faculty of History and Sociology at the University of Białystok , and in the years 2016-2020 he was the vice-rector for education at the University of Białystok . Since 2019, he has been the head of the Department of Eastern Studies at the University of Bialystok.[2]
From January 2017, he is the director of the Sybir Memorial Museum in Białystok.[2]
He received the Silver (2016) and Bronze (2009) Cross of Merit.[3][4]
Publications edit
- Syberyjski Białystok, Białystok: Muzeum Pamięci Sybiru, 2020.
- Życie na Kresach: województwa wschodnie II Rzeczypospolitej (1919-1939), Białystok: Muzeum Pamięci Sybiru, 2020.
References edit
- ^ "Nowa Nauka Polska". nauka-polska.pl. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
- ^ a b "prof. dr hab. Wojciech Śleszyński". Wydział Historii i Stosunków Międzynarodowych UwB (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-02-24.
- ^ "Postanowienie nr rej. 440/2016 Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 8 września 2016 r. o nadaniu odznaczeń". isap.sejm.gov.pl. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
- ^ "Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 21 września 2009 r. o nadaniu odznaczeń". isap.sejm.gov.pl. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
External links edit
- (in Polish) Homepage at the University of Białystok