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Beata Halicka – Polish historian and philologist, professor of contemporary history at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her interests include migration, nationalism, ethic conflicts, border studies, memory politics, woman's history, East Central Europe, World War II, Cold War, Polish diaspora in the USA, German-Polish relations.

Career
Her doctoral thesis (2001: University of Vechta, Germany, PhD equivalent) focused on the reception of Polish literature in Germany after 1945. From 2001 to 2003 she was a lecturer at the College of German at the University in Zielona Góra, Poland, where she was also granted the university’s Science Award in 2002. Between 2005 and 2008 she was involved in a research project about the German-Polish border region “Odra-Oder – the past, present and future of a European cultural region”, which was headed by prof. Karl Schlögel at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). Her Post-doc project [habilitation] was a study on forced migration and cultural appropriation of the Oder region 1945-1948. It was funded by the German-Polish Science Foundation and completed at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) in 2012. The project resulted in a publication of the book “Poland's Wild West”, which received the Identities Prize 2016 for the best historical book in Poland.

She lectured in cultural history of East Central Europe at the European University of Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) between 2006 and 2014 and was a visiting professor at the universities in Calgary, Canada (2014) and El Paso, USA (2016). From 2013 to 2018 she was a professor of contemporary history at the Polish-German Research Institute in Collegium Polonicum in Słubice and since 2018 she works at the Faculty of History at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

Her research project titled ''Changing borders / moving people. Constructions of identity by migrants from Eastern to Western Europe and to the USA in the 20th Century'' was founded by German Historical Institute in 2018. The result of it is her book: ''Borderlands Biography. Z. Anthony Kruszewski in wartime Europe and postwar America''. It aroused great interest among American readers. She has been awarded by the Kosciuszko Foundation in 2022 for the implementation of a research project entitled ''Polish Women in the USA. Émigré Biographies from Wartime Europe and Postwar America.''

She is an expert of the Europe Canada Network, where she leads the Polish team in the project European Memory Politics: Populism, Nationalism, and the Challenges to a European Memory Culture – Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

Selected works
·       ''Borderlands Biography. Z. Anthony Kruszewski in wartime Europe and postwar America''. Brill/Ferdinand Schönningh, Paderborn 2021.

·       ''The Polish Wild West. Forced Migration and Cultural Appropriation in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1945-1948''. Routledge, London and New York 2020.

·       ''Życie na pograniczach. Zbigniew Anthony Kruszewski. Biografia''. Instytut Historii Nauki PAN, seria wydawnicza: FONTES RERUM AD HISTORIAM SCIENTIAE SPECTANTIUM, Vol. XXVII, Oficyna Wydawnicza ASPRA-JR, Warszawa 2019.

·       (ed): ''Mój dom nad Odrą. Pamiętniki osadników Ziem Zachodnich po 1945 roku.'' TAWPN Universitas, Kraków 2016.

·       ''„Polski Dziki Zachód”. Przymusowe migracje i kulturowe oswajanie Nadodrza 1945-48.'' TAWPN Universitas, Kraków 2015.

·       (ed.): ''Mein Haus an der Oder. Erinnerungen polnischer Siedler nach 1945''. Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 2014.

·       ''Polens Wilder Westen. Erzwungene Migration und die kulturelle Aneignung des Oderraumes 1945-48''. Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 2013.

·       with Bogusław Mykietów (ed.): Kozaky – ''Pyrehne. Polen, Deutsche und Ukrainer auf dem Erinnerungspfad erzwungener Migrationen / Kozaki – Pyrzany. Polifonia pamięci o przymusowych migracjach we wspomnieniach Polaków, Niemców i Ukraińców''. Wydawnictwo Instytutowe, Skórzyn 2011.

·       with Karl Schlögel (ed.): Odra-Oder. Panorama europejskiej rzeki. Wydawnictwo Instytutowe, Skórzyn 2008.

·       with Karl Schlögel (ed.): Oder-Odra. Blicke auf einen europäischen Strom. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt (Main) 2007.

·       ''Krosno Odrzańskie / Crossen an der Oder 1005 - 2005. Wspólne dziedzictwo kultury / Das gemeinsame Kulturerbe''. Wydawnictwo Instytutowe, Skórzyn 2005, 2009.

·        „Niektórzy lubią poezje". Wiersze Wisławy Szymborskiej w Niemczech. Universitas Verlag, Kraków 2005.

·       Zur Rezeption der Gedichte von Wisława Szymborska in Deutschland. Logos Verlag, Berlin 2002.