Sławomir Łukasiewicz, PhD. Hab. Historian, political scientist, and Europeanist.
Visiting scholar at the Davis Center for Russian, and Eurasian Studies at
Harvard University from 2019-2023. Recipient of the 2019/2020 Fulbright Senior Award. 2015-2019 director of the Institute of European Studies at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, where he is a university professor of European Studies. 2005-2021 he also served as historian for the Lublin branch of Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance, where he coordinated a research program on Polish political exile.
With research interests encompassing the history of Polish and Central European Cold War exile and related intelligence operations, intellectual history, European integration concepts, the history of Polish historiography, and Sovietology, he is widely published, including most recently “Poland,” in: East Central European Migrations during the Cold War. A Handbook, edited by Anna Mazurkiewicz (Münich: De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2019); Christian Democracy across the Iron Curtain: Europe Redefined, co-edited with Piotr Kosicki (Palgrave, 2018), Third Europe: Polish Federalist Thought in the United States, 1940-1971 (Helena History Press, 2016), Partia w warunkach emigracji. Dylematy Polskiego Ruchu Wolnościowego „Niepodległość i Demokracja” (ISP PAN, IPN: 2014). His research has been supported by grants from institutions that include the Kosciuszko Foundation (1999/2000, 2022/2023), the Foundation for Polish Science (2008, 2022-2024), the Polish Ministry of Science (2008-2011), and Fulbright Commission (2019/2020), Polish National Science Center (2022-2025) among others.