Michał Pospiszyl is a historian and assistant professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Scholarships have been awarded from the National Science Centre, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University in Budapest, visiting scholar at New York University. Current research focuses on a book on escape ecologies in Enlightenment Eastern Europe, with a related article published in Environmental History (2023). Forthcoming publications on this topic will appear in the Journal of Modern History and Environmental Humanities. Pospiszyl lives in the Białowieza Forest.
Research interests
- Environmental history
- Social history
- Modern history
- History of Eastern Europe
Selected Papers
- Pospiszyl, M., On the Edge of Power: Peasants and Escape Ecologies in Eastern Europe, c. 1700–1850, “The Journal of Modern History”, 2026/2 (forthcoming).
- Pospiszyl, M., Muddy Road Politics: Jewish Commoners, Ecology and the Enlightenment in Eastern Europe, „Environmental Humanities”, 2026 (forthcoming).
- Pospiszyl, M., The Fifth Element: The Enlightenment and the Draining of Eastern Europe, “Environmental History”, 2023/2.
Publications
Staff Information
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- michal.pospiszyl@protonmail.com