Anna Mazurkiewicz Polish historian (PhD 2006, habil. 2016), Deputy Dean for International Cooperation at the Faculty of History, University of Gdańsk in Poland, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History.
Mazurkiewicz the past President of the Polish American Historical Association (2017-2018) and a Board member since 2015. She is also a member of the Inter-faculty Committee of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU) for the Study of the Polish Diaspora as well as the Committee on Migration Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (KBnM PAN).
Author of four books on the American responses to elections of 1947 and 1989 in Poland and on the role of the political exiles from East Central Europe in American Cold War politics. The latter won the Willi Paul Adams Award, for the best book on American history published in a language other than English (Organization of American Historians, 2019). Editor of five volumes resulting from international cooperation/projects, including four in English (published in Germany and UK). https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6599-2755
Recipient of numerous research grants and awards by European and American institutions, among them Kościuszko Foundation Scholarships (University of Minnesota, State University of New York at Buffalo, Valdosta State University in Georgia) and Fulbright Senior Award at the Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University.
She teaches contemporary history with a special focus on the Cold War, American history, US foreign policy, and offers courses in migration and diaspora studies.