Paweł Sękowski

Paweł Sękowski (born 2 October 1985) is a Polish historian specializing in modern history, researcher at the Jagiellonian University, President of the Kuźnica Association from January 2018.

Biography In 2009 he graduated from history studies at the Jagiellonian University. He was a scholarship holder of the Socrates-Erasmus program at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (2007–2008) and a scholarship holder of the Government of the French Republic (2010–2012). supervised by Wojciech Rojek and Oivier Forcade. He defended his thesis in French at the Sorbonne, and in Polish at the Jagiellonian University. From 2018, he also acts as the vice-chairman of the Polish Teachers' Union at the Jagiellonian University.

Awards First Award in the Władysław Pobóg-Malinowski Competition for the best historical debut (masters thesis) awarded by the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Institute of National Remembrance, 2010; Distinction in the Władysław Pobóg-Malinowski Competition for the best historical debut (doctoral thesis) awarded by the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Institute of National Remembrance, 2016.