Current monograph · 2026
City of Margins, City of Memory
A study of neighborhood archives and the people who preserve local memory when official histories leave gaps.
Book manuscript · under contract
Professor · Historian · Mentor
Ideas deserve a living classroom.
A scholarship-led portfolio for a professor whose work moves from close archival reading to public conversation, with teaching designed to make difficult questions feel beautifully open.
01 / Profile
Research with a pulse.
My practice sits between cultural history, memory studies and public humanities. I study how ordinary records (letters, objects, photographs and civic documents) reveal the changing stories societies tell about themselves.
“The best seminar is not a room full of answers. It is a room where better questions become possible.”
0Peer-reviewed articles
0Books / edited volumes
0Graduate researchers mentored
02 / Research
The archive is a lattice.
Each project connects fragments across time, geography and lived experience. Featured work below shows how a question can travel from a primary source to a larger public argument.
Public humanities
Objects That Remember
Curated research translating domestic objects into accessible stories about migration, labor and belonging.
Museum partnership
Journal article
The Letter as Evidence
How correspondence complicates the boundary between private memory and public historical record.
History & Society · 2025
03 / Teaching
Seminars built for curiosity.
Courses combine primary-source labs, discussion-led teaching and small acts of intellectual risk. Students leave with methods they can carry into research, civic life and creative work.
HIST 401Archives, Memory & Power
Advanced seminar · source criticism · oral history
HIST 318Everyday Life in the Modern City
Lecture + fieldwork · material culture · urban history
PHUM 210Making History Public
Studio seminar · exhibitions · digital storytelling
GRAD 602Methods Colloquium
Graduate workshop · research design · peer critique
04 / Career
A career measured in questions.
A faculty path shaped by teaching, research, mentorship and collaborative scholarship rather than a list of titles alone.
Professor of Cultural History
Leading research seminars, supervising doctoral work and directing public-history collaborations.
Associate Professor · Memory Studies
Built an interdisciplinary lab connecting historians, archivists and community researchers.
Assistant Professor · Modern History
Developed inquiry-based courses and launched an undergraduate archival methods sequence.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Completed fieldwork across municipal archives while teaching first-year humanities seminars.
05 / Recognition
Scholarship that travels.
Recognition here is framed as evidence of reach: work that has moved between academic communities, classrooms, museums and public audiences.
National Humanities Fellowship
Research support for the City of Margins monograph project.
Outstanding Teaching Citation
Recognized for seminar design, student mentorship and inclusive discussion practice.
Public Scholarship Prize
Awarded for Objects That Remember, a collaborative museum research program.
Faculty Mentorship Honor
Peer and graduate-student recognition for sustained research supervision.
06 / Contact
Bring a question.
For invited talks, research collaboration, graduate mentorship conversations or public-humanities projects, send a short introduction.
Office hours
Tuesday & Thursday · 14:00-16:00
Academic focus
Cultural history · memory studies · archives · public humanities
✉ anselm@example.com☎ +48 12 555 0188
◎ Krakow, Poland