Michał Maciejewski

I’m a doctoral student at the National Education Commission University, where I’m working on an NCN Sonata grant, The Role of Postcolonial Concepts in Defining the Polish State and its Relations with Africa during the Twentieth Century.  My interests are mainly in the history of the 20th century, with a particular focus on the issue of countries and societies whose development has been affected by external interference and politic or cultural domination. That is why I dedicated my Bachelor’s and Master’s thesis to Irish history. Both its efforts in the struggle for independence and the social effects of the island’s division that are still present today. My current research focuses mainly on the attitude of the Polish state and society towards the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. I would like this research to serve not only to better understand the history of colonial discourse in Polish conditions, but also to become part of a postcolonial turn in contemporary Polish historiography