Project author/potential doctoral thesis supervisor: prof. UO dr hab. Marcin Böhm
e-mail: mbohm@uni.opole.pl or mabohm@wp.pl
Research topics:
The history of the Byzantium in the era of the Comnenian and Angelos dynasties (XI-XIII centuries).
The history of medieval maritime art, with particular emphasis on the history of Byzantium, European Normans, and the Vikings.
The development of boatbuilding in the Middle Ages around the Mediterranean, Black, North, Baltic, and Atlantic basins.
Military in the Middle Ages in Poland and the world (IX-XV centuries).
History of Normans in Normandy, Italy, England, Wales and Ireland (X-XIII centuries).
Piasts dynasty of Oleśnica-Koźle (XIV-XV centuries).
Candidate's projects in the field of the history of the Byzantine Empire, Normans, the history of Silesia, military and medieval maritime art, accepted after previous arrangements.
Promoter scientific experience:
- https://opole.academia.edu/MarcinB%C3%B6hm
- from 2016 a member of the Polish Research Mission conducted in Altavilla Millicia in Sicily, in a position at the church of Santa Maria di Campogrosso, he took part in a field expedition twice (2016-2017)
- member of the PTH Byzantine Commission
Research facilities of the implemented project, possibilities of international mobility of a doctoral student, possibilities of employing a doctoral student in implemented projects or grants:
- a place for research work for a doctoral student based on the promoter's library (paper and digital collections) and the resources of the UO Main Library, as well as specialized domestic and foreign digital libraries. The promoter also offers support in reaching specialized source databases containing materials about the universal history of the Middle Ages
- the possibility of applying for funding for research and trips to foreign scientific institutions on their own, or/and preparing a joint application for such financing
- cooperation in international projects conducted in Sicily by the UO Institute of History
Other promoter requirements for the candidate: knowledge of Latin, Greek and selected modern languages, knowledge of medieval paleography.
Project author/potential doctoral thesis supervisor: dr hab. Antoni Maziarz
e-mail: amaziarz@uni.opole.pl or aamaziarz@gmail.com
Researchtopics:
- recent history (19th-20th Century)
- history of Catholick Church
- history od medicine
Scientific experience of the promoter:
- author of 4 monographs, 5 edited books, 1 source edition
- author of several dozen articles and encyklopedic entries
- organizer of a nationl conference, participant of several dozen scientific conferences
- queries in foreign archives (Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium, Russia)
- promoter of 1 doctorate, scientific supervisor of emerging dissertations
- promoter of several master’s theses and several dozen bachelor’s theses
- author of reviews, including doctorates
Research facilities of the implemented project, possibilities of international mobility of the doctoral student, possibilities of employing the doctoral student in implemented projects or grants:
- research facilities for projects:
- Research experience at the level of a BA or M thesis in the field of history
- knowledge of a modern foreign language
- experience in working with historical sources
- “availability” – having time to study archival materials and prepare a dissertation
- suport from the employer in the implementation of research topic
- the ability to write scientific texts in correct Polish
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Project author/potential doctoral thesis supervisor: prof. UO dr hab. Mariusz Sawicki
e-mail: msawicki@uni.opole.pl ; sawicki4@wp.pl
Research topics:
Socio-political elites in the public and private space of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th-18th centuries.
The social and political role of the magnate courts in Lithuania in the 17th century.
The financial aspect of the functioning of the Lithuanian army in the second half 17th century.
Sapieha - the history and importance of the family in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Radziwiłł - the history and importance of the family in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Lithuanian magnate families - their importance in the functioning of the state.
The everyday life of the inhabitants of the Commonwealth and Europe from the 16th to the 18th century.
Citizens of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on the royal and princely thrones of Europe.
Ludwika Maria Gonzaga and Maria Kazimiera d`Arquien Sobieska. European image of Polish queens.
Functioning of European and Polish courts in public and private space in the 16th-18th centuries. Their impact on society.
Political parties in the Polish-Lithuanian state in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Mutual relations, political role, contacts with the royal court.
The Commonwealth in the light of French and English / British diplomacy reports in the second half XVII and early XVIII century.
Trials of witchcraft in Poland and Lithuania in the 17th and 18th centuries.
French and English diplomacy in the western principalities of the German Reich in the second half of the 17th century.
Promoter scientific experience:
- https://repo.uni.opole.pl/reports/researcherReportHtml.seam?affil=&lang=en&cid=7339 and https://orcid.org/ 0000-0001-5318-7145
- head of the National Science Center grants No. DEC 2017/01 / X / HS3 / 00482 entitled "Socio-political elites of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the light of reports of French and English diplomats in the second half of the 17th century"
- scientific internships at the Polnische Historische Mission a der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Am Hubland - November 2016 and 2019
- 2008 and 2010 scholarship of the Lanckoronski Foundation for the implementation of the project "House Sapieżyński 1668-1698. Road to hegemony in Lithuania "
- 2017 of the Lanckoronski scholarship for the project "Hegemony of Sapieha in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the years 1685-1696
- in 2018, the Lanckoronski scholarship for the project 'The Commonwealth in the Great Northern War in the accounts of English envoys in Moscow'
- member of the Scientific Council of Open Military Studies
- chairman of the Scientific Council of Brest Castle Annals
- organization of international scientific conferences outside of Poland: Versailles-Paris "Versailles et la Pologne, XVIIe-XIXe siècles"; Chisinau (Moldova) "The lands of the Duchy of Moldova, the Republic of Poland and the Black Sea region in the 15th-20th centuries"
Research facilities of the implemented project, possibilities of international mobility of a doctoral student, possibilities of employing a doctoral student in implemented projects or grants:
- the possibility of conducting domestic and foreign research queries
- the opportunity to participate in international conferences and scientific seminars
- the opportunity to participate in domestic and foreign research projects and programs
- the possibility of applying for funding for research and trips to foreign scientific institutions on their own, or/and preparing a joint application for such financing
- aassistance in applying/preparing the application for national and international grants
ssistance in applying for internships in the European Union and Partner Countries (Russia, Montenegro, Moldova, Ukraine)
- possibility of assistance in obtaining national and foreign scholarships
- the possibility of using the collected sources in paper and electronic form
- possibility of using the collected inventories of libraries and foreign archives
Other promoter requirements for the candidate: predisposition to work in archives and passion for queriess, mobility both at home and abroad, advanced knowledge of at least one foreign language.
Project author/potential doctoral thesis supervisor: prof. UO dr hab. Magdalena Ujma
e-mail: mujma@uni.opole.pl
Research topics:
Good of great landed property in the Polish Crown and Silesia in the 16th-18th centuries.
Modern French press in the face of internal and external problems of the First Polish Republic.
Magnate customs and everyday life of the magnates.
Religious minorities in Poland in the 16th-18th centuries.
Noble assemblies of the 16th-18th centuries.
Promoter scientific experience:
- one open doctoral thesis, doctoral dissertation in progress
- https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4066-8198
Research facilities of the implemented project, possibilities of international mobility of a doctoral student, possibilities of employing a doctoral student in implemented projects or grants:
- scientific libraries in Poland and abroad (including Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, France)
- domestic and foreign archives (incl. Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, France)
- possibilities of international mobility of a doctoral student:
- participation in the efforts and implementation of the international grant (France)
- the opportunity to participate in international conferences (France, Portugal, Turkey)
Other promoter requirements for the candidate: knowledge of French and Latin.
Project author/potential doctoral thesis supervisor: prof. dr hab. Anna Pobóg-Lenartowicz
e-mail: alenartowicz@uni.opole.pl
Research topics:
History, role and meaning of silesian mendicants, particularly in Opole and Upper Silesia. History of Church.
History of Duchy of Opole and city itself.
Women’s history.
Supervisor’s experience:
- 12 successfully promoted PhD students, 4 others in progress
- published papers: 9 author’s monographies, 15 edited-by books, aprox. 300 articles
- director of 2 grants, member of grant team dedicated to dictionary of polish medieval mendicants
- director of over a dozen grants focused on research on local history
Research facilities and hiring possibilities for the project:
- availability of database of silesian mendicants, archive query in Czech Republic and Germany, possibility of common creating a grant aplication dedicated to silesian mendicants, silesian Church, history of duchy of Opole or women’s history which could provide an employment for a PhD student
Other requirements for candidates: good level of latin and very good level of german, knowledge of palaeography and neography.
Project author/potential promoter: prof. UO dr hab. Adriana Dawid
e-mail adadawid@wp.pl
Research topics:
The political and social history of Silesia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
National minorities in Upper Silesia in the twentiethcentury.
The History of families and the everyday life.
The anti-communist opposition in The Polish People's Republic.
Microhistory.
The supervisor's scientific experience:
- author of two scientific monographs, editor of eight monographs, and four publications of the editions of sources
- list of publications on the website: http://historia.uni.opole.pl/zespol/example-2/
- participant in of over fifty domestic and foreign scientific conferences
- the organizer of eight scientific conferences
- member of the scientific council of the German Minority Research Center// Forschungszentrum der DMi
- supervisor of several bachelor's and master's theses
- reviewer of several dozen bachelor's and master's theses
- queries in numerous archives and libraries in Poland and Germany
Research facilities of the implemented project, possibilities of international mobility of a doctoral student, possibilities of employing a doctoral student in ongoing projects or grants:
- possibility to apply for research and mobility funding
- possibility to participate in domestic and foreign conferences
- assistance in organizing archival and library queries in Poland and abroad
- help in working on source materials from the era
The supervisor's other requirements for the candidate: knowledge of a foreign language (preferably German), high grade on the Master's degree diploma.