a Polish historian who used to teach at the University of Warsaw. She was fired because of her critical attitude towards Polish national historiography. Ela currently works in the Institute of Slavic Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Ela’s doctoral dissertation, defended at the European University Institute, focuses on the concept of the civilizing mission in Eastern Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The historian examines how German, Polish, and Ukrainian intellectuals saw and used this concept. This is our discussion with Ela.
