Wojciech Śleszyński (born 1970) is a Polish

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

and Dean of the History and Sociology Faculty at the

University of Białystok The University of Bialystok is the largest university in the north-eastern region of Poland, educating in various fields of study, including humanities, social and natural sciences and mathematics. It has nine faculties, including a foreign one ...

. Director of the since 2017.

Biography

In 1996, he graduated from the History Department at the Białystok campus of the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of ...

. In 2001 he received his PhD at the Faculty of History and Sociology of the

, based on the dissertation ''Propaganda i indoktrynacja władz sowieckich na Białostocczyźnie w latach 1939–1941'' (''Propaganda and indoctrination of the Soviet authorities in the Bialystok region in 1939–1941''). In 2008 he received his

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at the Institute of Political Studies of the

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of ...

, with a dissertation ''Bezpieczeństwo wewnętrzne w polityce państwa polskiego na ziemiach północno-wschodnich II Rzeczypospolitej'' (''Internal security in the policy of the Polish state in the north-eastern territories of the Second Republic of Poland''). He received a position of professor in 2019. Hhe was employed as an academic teacher from 1997. He was the deputy director of the Institute of History of the University of Białystok (2005-2008) and the director of the Institute of History and Political Science of the University of Białystok (2008-2012). In 2008, he was appointed head of the Department of Political Relations of the University of Białystok . In the years 2012-2016, he was the dean of the Faculty of History and Sociology at the University of Białystok , and in the years 2016-2020 he was the vice-rector for education at the University of Białystok . Since 2019, he has been the head of the Department of Eastern Studies at the University of Bialystok. From January 2017, he is the director of the Sybir Memorial Museum in Białystok. He received the Silver (2016) and Bronze (2009) Cross of Merit.

Publications

*Syberyjski Białystok, Białystok: Muzeum Pamięci Sybiru, 2020. *Życie na Kresach: województwa wschodnie II Rzeczypospolitej (1919-1939), Białystok: Muzeum Pamięci Sybiru, 2020.

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at the University of Białystok {{DEFAULTSORT:Sleszynski, Wojciech 1970 births Living people 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Academic staff of the University of Białystok Historians of Poland 21st-century Polish historians Recipients of the Silver Cross of Merit (Poland)