Dorota Kurek-Śliżewska is a PhD student at the University of Szczecin, Poland. She received her master’s degree in history with a specialization in archival studies and social history at the University of Szczecin in 2016. Her research interests are in the history of ethnic and religious minorities, as well as all other minority and subordinate groups that were marginalized and excluded, and their relations with dominant groups and institutions. Accordingly, she devoted her master’s thesis to the attitude of Polish authorities towards the small minority of German evangelicals after the end of World War II. Her dissertation will focus on the history of the Jewish community in Szczecin (then more commonly known Stettin) during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic, pinpointing the issue of their national identity. She also worked on the project: “Topography of Jewish life in Szczecin from the end of the 19th century to the Holocaust”, researching the egodocuments of a Jewish family living in Stettin/Szczecin at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. To date, she has held scholarships in the following institutions and programs: German Historical Institute in Moscow, DAAD (host institution: Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung – Technische Universität Berlin), J. G. Herder Intstitute in Marburg and Fritz Halbers Fellowship of the Leo Baeck Insitute in New York. She has participated in numerous international conferences and workshops and published several peer-reviewed articles. For BeNaSta, she conducts research on Poles in imperial Prussia.

Her publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3177-1946