Distribution of Polish migrants in the nineteenth century.
In my research I examine the role of Polish migrants and their network in the transnational circulation of knowledge between two regions typically viewed as peripheral: partitioned Poland and the newly independent Latin American countries of the nineteenth century.
I intend to address the following questions, amongst others: how extensive was the Polish knowledge network in Latin America? What varieties of knowledge were developed and how were they circulated? What were the sources of this knowledge? And did the knowledge gained in Latin America make its way back to partitioned Poland?
Poster
On the 27th February 2019 I took part in the UCL Doctoral School Research Poster Competition with the poster below, titled “Mapping the Polish knowledge network in nineteenth-century Latin America”. I was awarded a Runner-Up prize in the Arts & Humanities, Institute of Education, Laws, Social & Historical Sciences category.
For more information on the Poster Competition visit this UCL website.
The UCL Sutton Scholars Programme
Year 8 History Discovery Day
Sutton Scholars is an academic enrichment programme, delivered in partnership with the Sutton Trust, for academically high achieving students attending state schools who are underrepresented at university. The central theme of the 2019 Year 8 History Discovery Day was Global History. As part of this day, together with another PhD student, I planned and ran sessions on History of Migration. Other sessions included History of Medicine, the Crusades, Enlightenment and Universal Exhibitions. Around 110 year 8 students from across Greater London area participated.
Postgraduates in Latin American Studies Annual Conference 2019
June 2019, University of York
Presented my paper titled 'Mapping the Polish Knowledge Network in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: Case Study of Engineers and Railways in Perú', on the 'Migration, Diasporas and Transnational Identity Formation' panel.
Chair on the 'Framing the Nation: Understanding the Post-Independence Period' panel.
Learn more about the conference here: PILAS Conference
British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference
April 2019, University of Cambridge
Chair on the 'Science Between the National and the Global' panel.
University College London
PhD (MPhil) History, 2018-2022
Thesis working title: Mapping the Polish knowledge network in nineteenth-century Latin America.
University College London
MA Transnational Studies, 2013-2014
Graduated with a Merit
Dissertation: Knowledge Intermediaries in Colonial Bengal in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. (Distinction: 73%)
University of Warwick
BA(Hons) History and Sociology, 2010-2013
Graduated with a 2:1
Dissertation: Power, Bureaucracy and the East India Company in the Late Eighteenth Century: The Case of Benjamin Lacam's New Harbour in Bengal. (First: 76%)