November 2016 - October 2017
Mail jmgorny(at)gmail(dot)com
Maciej Górny has been an assistant professor at the Historical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 2006 (extraordinary professor since 2015). Between 2014 and 2016, he was a professor at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, and between 2006 and 2010 he was a research associate at the Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Górny’s research interests include Central and Eastern Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, history of historiography, discourses on race and the First World War. His publications include The Nation Should Come First: Marxism and Historiography in East Central Europe (2013, Polish edition 2007, German edition 2011), Wielka Wojna profesorów (2014, English and Russian editions forthcoming) and Nasza wojna, vol. 1: Imperia (with Włodzimierz Borodziej, 2014, English edition forthcoming). Since 2014, he has also been editor-in-chief of Acta Poloniae Historica (www.aph-ihpan.edu.pl).
The First World War in East Central Europe: Empires to Nations 1917–1923
This research project concentrates on the second phase of the conflict in East Central Europe, and represents a continuation of the history of the First World War in East Central and Southeast Europe by Maciej Górny and Włodzimierz Borodziej (Nasza wojna, vol. I: Imperia, 1912–1916, Warszawa 2014). While it will deal with diplomatic and military aspects of the conflict, this book is not primarily concerned with international politics. Instead, its main focus is on stories about people - both individuals and communities - and the impact that wartime experiences had on them. It deals above all with phenomena of wartime ethnicization, social conflict and cultural history. The book will contain numerous excerpts from letters and memoirs of people who took part in operations on the Eastern front and in post-war conflicts, as well as quotations from works of literature written during the war, which will serve to illustrate the way in which reality was perceived at the time.
Maciej Górny, Wielka Wojna profesorów: Nauki o człowieku (1912–1923), Warszawa: Instytut Historii PAN, 2014.
Włodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny, Nasza wojna, Bd. I: Imperia, Warszawa: W.A.B., 2014.
Maciej Górny, The Nation Should Come First: Marxism and Historiography in East Central Europe, Frankfurt am Main: Peter-Lang Verlag, 2013.
Maciej Górny, "Die Wahrheit ist auf unserer Seite": Nation, Marxismus und Geschichte im Ostblock, trans. Peter Oliver Loew, Błażej Białkowski and Andreas Warnecke, Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau, 2011.
Maciej Górny, Przede wszystkim ma być naród: Marksistowskie historiografie w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej, Warszawa: 2007.
Maciej Górny, Między Marksem a Palackým: Historiografia w komunistycznej Czechosłowacji, Warszawa: 2001.
Hans Henning Hahn, Robert Traba, Maciej Górny and Kornelia Kończal, Polsko-niemieckie miejsca pamięci, Bd. 1–4, Warszawa 2010–2016.
Hans Henning Hahn, Robert Traba, Maciej Górny and Kornelia Kończal, Deutsch-polnische Erinnerungsorte, Bd. 1–4, Paderborn: 2010–2015.
Ahmet Ersoy, Maciej Górny and Vangelis Kechriotis, Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770–1945): Texts and Commentaries, vol. 3/2: Modernism - Representations of National Culture, Budapest/New York: Central European University Press, 2010.
Ahmet Ersoy, Maciej Górny and Vangelis Kechriotis, Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770–1945). Texts and Commentaries, vol. 3/1: Modernism - Creation of the Nation State, Budapest/New York: Central European University Press, 2010.
Jerzy Kochanowski and Beate Kosmala, in collaboration with Maciej Górny and Andreas Mix, Deutschland, Polen und der Zweite Weltkrieg: Geschichte und Erinnerung, Potsdam/Warschau: Deutsch-Polnisches Jugendwerk, 2009 (second extended edition, 2013).
Jerzy Kochanowski and Beate Kosmala, in collaboration with Maciej Górny and Andreas Mix, Polska - Niemcy. Wojna i pamięć, Warszawa-Poczdam: Polsko-Niemiecka Współpraca Młodzieży, 2009 (zweite, erweiterte Auflage second extended edition, 2013).
Maciej Górny and Mateusz J. Hartwich, ed., Polska - Niemcy Wschodnie 1945–1990: Wybór dokumentów, Bd. 3: 1956–1957, Warszawa: 2008.
Dorota Danielewicz-Kerski and Maciej Górny, Polnische Perspektiven, Berlin: Berlin Story, 2008.
Maciej Górny, All Quiet? The Memory and Historiography of the First World War in Poland, Rubrica Contemporanea Vol. 3, No 6, (2014): 37–46.
Maciej Górny and Kornelia Kończal, The (non-)Travelling Concept of Les Lieux de Mémoire: Central and Eastern European Perspectives, in Memory and Change in Europe, Eastern Perspectives, edited by Małgorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak, New York/Oxford: 2015, pp. 59–76.
Maciej Górny, Ein Genosse ohne Mitgliedsbuch: Die kommunistische Vereinnahmung von Jan Hus, in Jan Hus: 600 Jahre Erste Reformation, edited by Andrea Strübind and Tobias Weger, München: 2015, pp. 157–166.
Maciej Górny and Włodzimierz Borodziej, “In der Feuerlinie sind alle gleichberechtigt”: Zur Loyalität der Nationen, Osteuropa 64, 2–4 (2014): 91–108.
Maciej Górny, War on Paper? Physical Anthropology in the Service of States and Nations, in Legacies of Violence: Eastern Europe's First World War, edited by Jochen Böhler, Wlodzimierz Borodziej and Joachim von Puttkamer, München: 2014, pp. 131–167.
Reviews published in: HSK, Kwartalnik Historyczny, Acta Poloniae Historica, Český Časopis Historický, Przegląd Historyczny, Bohemia, Przegląd Polityczny, Střed/Centre, and the Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas.