Beata Baczyńska: a Hispanist and theatrologist, full professor at the Department of Iberian Studies of the Institute of Romance Philology, University of Wrocław, where she lectures on Spanish literature. She has published widely on Spanish and Polish theatre, in particular, on the presence of Spanish drama of the Golden Age in the Polish theatrical tradition. Between 2010 and 2014, she participated in the works of the TC/12 international consortium (Patrimonio Teatral Clásico Español. Textos e Instrumentos de Investigación), whose aim was to disseminate the heritage of the old Spanish theatre through digital technologies. She is a member of the PROTEO research group (Universidad de Burgos) and collaborates with the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław, which issued the Polish-Spanish edition of Juliusz Słowacki’s Książę Niezłomny / El príncipe constante Calderóna (2009) Professor Baczyńska prepared for publication. Her two monographs were dedicated to the works of Pedro Calderón de la Barca: „Książę Niezłomny”. Hiszpański pierwowzór i polski przekład (Wrocław 2002) and Dramaturg w wielkim teatrze historii. Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Wrocław 2005). The latter, as well as the bilingual edition of Książę Niezłomny, was published in Spanish in electronic form by Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. She also authored the academic synthesis Historia literatury hiszpańskiej (Warsaw 2014). In 2023, she was elected a member of the Committee on Literary Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2024–2028). In 2018, King Felipe VI of Spain conferred on her the Encomienda de la Orden del Mérito Civil (the Order of the Civil Merit) for her efforts to popularise Spanish literature and culture. She has contributed, in collaboration with Ewa Kulak, the chapter on the history of Romance philology at the University of Lviv (volume 1 of the monograph).
Anna Brożek: a philosopher, pianist, theoretician of music, full professor at the University of Warsaw, head of the Lvov-Warsaw School Research Center. She completed her studies in philosophy (2003) and piano (2004) in Kraków, later receiving the Ph.D. degree (2006) and the post-doctoral (habilitation) degree (2008) in philosophy from the University of Warsaw. She also holds a post-doctoral (habilitation) degree in the field of art (music theory) from the Academy of Music in Kraków. In 2015, she was awarded full professorship in the humanities. She is the author or coauthor of several books and numerous articles on logical semiotics, methodology, history and philosophy of logic, ontology and philosophy and theory of music, including the monographs Principia musica. Logiczna analiza terminologii muzycznej (Warsaw 2006), Kazimierz Twardowski. Die Wiener Jahre (Wien-New York 2010), Questions and Answers (Amsterdam−New York 2011), Teoria imperatywów i jej zastosowania (ebook: Copernicus Center Press 2014) and Analiza i konstrukcja (ebook: Copernicus Center Press 2021). She was the head of several research projects funded by the Foundation for Polish Science, the National Science Centre and the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities. She won the Prime Minister’s Prize for her doctoral dissertation (2006) and the National Science Centre Award (2017). Between 2017 and 2023, she was a member of the Academy of Young Scientists of the Polish Academy of Sciences. As a pianist, she recorded, among other things, the two-disc album “Roman Maciejewski: Complete piano mazurkas” (2011) nominated for the Fryderyk award. She is the author of the chapter on the history of philosophy at the University of Lviv (volume 3 of the monograph).
Anna Burzyńska-Kamieniecka: a holder of the Ph.D. degree in the humanities (linguistics), assistant professor at the Department of Applied Linguistics of the Institute of Polish Studies, University of Wrocław, and head of the Centre of Anthropological Linguistics. Her research interests comprise cultural linguistics, linguistic genology (a diachronic study of genres) and Polish language teaching (the theory and practice of teaching Polish as a foreign language). Much of her present research relates to textbooks, dating back to the 16th–18th centuries, for teaching Polish as a foreign language, problems of linguistic and cultural penetration in borderland regions and the situation of the Polish language in the former eastern borderlands of Poland. In her capacity as head of the Centre of Anthropological Linguistics, she has been organising discussion sessions in the series “Język i Kultura”, scholarly meetings known as “Wrocławskie Kolokwia Etnolingwistyczne”, and international seminars on Polish as a foreign, second and inherited language. She serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Język i Kultura issued by the University of Wrocław Press. She is the author of numerous publications, of which the most important is the monograph Jakże rad bym się nauczył polskiej mowy… O glottodydaktycznych aspektach relacji „język a kultura” w nauczaniu języka polskiego jako obcego (Wrocław 2002). She coedited many conference proceedings volumes, including Kresowe dziedzictwo. Studia nad językiem, historią i kulturą (Wrocław 2012) and Przeszłość i teraźniejszość edukacji na Kresach. Zbiór studiów z języka i kultury (Wrocław 2013). She is a member of the Ethnolinguistic Commission within the Linguistic Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences and of the “Bristol” Association of Polish and Foreign Teachers of Polish Culture and Polish as a Foreign Language. She has collaborated with Anna Dąbrowska on the chapter dedicated to the history of Polish linguistics at the University of Lviv (volume 1 of the monograph).
Mariusz Chrostek: a Polish philologist, literary scholar, associate professor at the Department of Polish Studies and Journalism, University of Rzeszów. He is the author of three monographs: Etos dziewiętnastowiecznych zesłańców (Wrocław 2008), „Jeśli zapomnę o nich…” Powikłane losy polskich więźniów politycznych pod zaborem rosyjskim (Kraków 2009) and Złote lata polonistyki lwowskiej (1919–1939) (Rzeszów 2016), as well as coeditor of the collective volume Przez gwiazdy i błękit jestem z Wami. W 200. rocznicę urodzin Słowackiego (Przemyśl−Rzeszów 2009). He also published a number of articles and book chapters. His area of expertise covers 19th-century literature, the history of Lviv’s Polish studies up to 1939 and its influence on pre-war humanities in Poland, and the fate of Polish political prisoners, particularly exiles in Siberia in the 19th and early 20th centuries, as attested in memoirs, correspondence and the literature. He seeks to investigate the experiences of people detained in extreme conditions, including those sentenced to death, and the need to expose the myths of 19th-century Siberia and the Siberian exiles. He has written the chapter on the history of Polish literary studies at the University of Lviv between 1914 and 1946 (volume 1 of the monograph).
Anna Dąbrowska: a full professor, linguist affiliated with the Institute of Polish Philology at the University of Wrocław. Her research interests lie in cultural linguistics, the history of teaching Polish as a foreign language, the Polish language spoken by foreigners and other issues related to Polish language teaching. She is the author of several monographs, including Eufemizmy współczesnego języka polskiego (Wrocław 1993), Słownik eufemizmów polskich, czyli w rzeczy mocno, w sposobie łagodnie (Warsaw 1998) and Język polski (Wrocław 2004), and coauthor of didactic publications such as Z Wrocławiem w tle: zadania testowe z języka polskiego dla cudzoziemców (Wrocław 2005), Co warto wiedzieć. Poradnik dla nauczycieli języka polskiego jako obcego na Wschodzie (Warsaw 2010), and Przewodnik po trudnych miejscach polszczyzny (Kraków 2024). Professor Dąbrowska also wrote close to two hundred scholarly articles and book chapters, and edited or coedited a few collective volumes. She was for years the editor-in-chief of the journal Język a Kultura. At her Alma Mater, she served as head of several organisational units (e.g. the director of the School of the Polish Language and Culture for Foreigners) and acted as a representative of the professorial staff in the University of Wrocław Senate. She is the former president of the “Bristol” Association of Polish and Foreign Teachers of Polish Culture and Polish as a Foreign Language (2000–2004). She cocreated the Polish language examination system for foreigners and, for the last twenty years (2004─2024), was a member of the State Commission for the Certification of Proficiency in Polish as a Foreign Language. She has contributed the chapter on Polish linguistics at the University of Lviv written with Anna Burzyńska-Kamieniecka (volume 1 of the monograph).
Markus Eberharter: an associate professor, specialist in literature and translation studies, head of the Department of Literary Communication Studies at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw, and assistant professor at the Book and Readership Institute of the National Library in Warsaw. His doctoral dissertation, Der poetische Formismus Tytus Czyżewskis. Ein literarischer Ansatz der frühen polnischen Avantgarde und sein mitteleuropäischer Kontext (München 2004), was dedicated to Tytus Czyżewski and Polish formism, while the post-doctoral (habilitation) dissertation, Die translatorischen Biographien von Jan Nepomucen Kamiński, Walenty Chłędowski und Wiktor Baworowski. Zum Leben und Werk von drei Literaturübersetzern im 19. Jahrhundert (Warsaw 2018), addressed the biographies of Lviv’s literary translators in the 19th century. He also edited scholarly publications, such as the 2023 issue of the journal Przekładaniec. He is a member of the Scientific Board of Czasopismo Zakładu Narodowego im. Ossolińskich. His research interests revolve around translator studies, literary translation, the reception and sociology of translation and literature, history of books and libraries in the 19th and 20th centuries, and history of science and scientific institutions. He is the author of the chapter on the history of German philology at the University of Lviv (volume 1 of the monograph).
Rafał Eysymontt: an art historian, associate professor at the University of Wrocław, director of the Institute of Art History, president of the Wrocław branch of the Association of Art Historians and head of the Regional Council for the Protection of Historical Monuments by the Lower Silesian Regional Conservator of Monuments. He is the author of works on the history of cities, including Kod Genetyczny Miasta. Średniowieczne miasta lokacyjne Dolnego Śląska na tle urbanistyki europejskiej awarded by the Minister of Science (Wrocław−Marburg 2009), coauthor and editor of several parts of Atlas historyczny miast polskich (vol. 4: Śląsk), coeditor and author of over one hundred entries in Leksykon architektury Wrocławia (2011), and author of several hundred publications on the history of urban planning and conservation. He is a beneficiary of scholarships from the Herder Institute in Marburg and the De Brzezie Lanckoronski Foundation in Rome and Florence. He was also awarded by the local governments of Niemcza, Oława, Legnica and Wrocław. He has written, in collaboration with Roksolyana Holovata, the chapter on the history of art at the University of Lviv (volume 3 of the monograph).
Maciej Gołąb: a musicologist, full professor in the humanities. His research interests focus on music in culture, particularly the history and theory of music between the 19th and 20th centuries, Chopinology and the methodology of musicological research. He defended his doctoral dissertation Teoria i jej kompozytorskie aspekty w muzyce dwunastotonowej I połowy XX wieku at the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw in 1981. In 1990, he received the post-doctoral (habilitaton) degree from the same university for the dissertation Chromatyka i tonalność w muzyce Chopina and, in 1999, was awarded full professorship. He is the author of over one hundred and sixty scholarly articles and the following monographs: Dodekafonia (Bydgoszcz 1987), Chromatyka i tonalność w muzyce Chopina (Kraków 1991; German edition Cologne 1995), Józef Koffler (Kraków 1995; English edition Los Angeles 2004), Spór o granice poznania dzieła muzycznego (Wrocław 2003; English edition Frankfurt am Main 1998), Józef Michał Chomiński (Wrocław 2008), Muzyczna moderna w XX wieku (Wrocław 2011; English edition Frankfurt am Main 2016), Twelve Studies in Chopin (Frankfurt am Main 2014) and Mazurek Dąbrowskiego. Muzyczne narodziny hymnu (Warsaw 2021). He also edited a few books: Przemiany stylu Chopina (Kraków 1993), Muzykologia we Wrocławiu (Wrocław 2005) and Chopin w kulturze polskiej (Wrocław 2009). He is the author of the chapter on the history of musicology at the University of Lviv (volume 3 of the monograph).
Ewa Grzęda: an associate professor, literary historian currently affiliated with the Department of the History of the Literature of Romanticism, University of Wrocław, and head of the Humanistic Centre for Mountain Studies. She has published over one hundred scholarly articles and book chapters. She specializes in 19th-century literature and culture, with particular emphasis on the literature of Polish Romanticism, and humanistic anthropological thanatology. Her research areas also include cultural and literary space, regionalist issues and mountain literature. She is the editor of the annual journal Góry − Literatura − Kultura (volumes 5−15 were published under her editorship in the years 2010–2021) and of “Seria Górska” issued by Universitas. In the latter, two books have appeared thus far: Jacek Kolbuszewski’s Góry. Przestrzenie i krajobrazy. Studia z historii literatury i kultury (Kraków 2020) and Od Kaukazu po Sudety. Studia i szkice o poznawaniu i zamieszkiwaniu gór dalekich i bliskich in Professor Grzęda’s edition (Kraków 2020). She also wrote two monographs dedicated to Polish literature: Funkcja i estetyka motywów drzewa i lasu w twórczości Juliusza Słowackiego (Wrocław 2000) and Będzięsz z chlubą wskazywać synów twoich groby… Mitologizacja mogił bohaterów w literaturze i kulturze polskiej lat 1795–1863 (Wrocław 2011). She has contributed the chapter on the history of Polish literary studies at the University of Lviv to 1914 (volume 1 of the monograph).
Roksolyana Holovata: an art historian, head and editor of the digital platform Lviv Interactive at the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv. She is a graduate of doctoral studies in cultural sciences at the Institute of Art History of the University of Wrocław and a graduate of doctoral studies in history at the Ukrainian Catholic University. Her doctoral dissertation defended at the University of Wrocław was titled The impact of socio-cultural changes on the development of the southern part of the Halych suburb in Lviv in the late 18th and early 20th century. She is a member of the research team at the Center for Urban History dealing with Lviv’s cultural heritage, in which she elaborates on the preservation movement in Lviv during the Second Polish Republic. Her research interests include the history of Lviv in the 19th and 20th centuries, comparative urbanism, the perception of urban space, as well as artistic networks in Lviv and their manifestations in the city’s public spaces. She has coauthored, with Rafał Eysymontt, the chapter on the history of art at the University of Lviv (volume 3 of the monograph).
Mariola Hoszowska: an associate professor at the Department of Education and Historical Culture of the Institute of History, University of Rzeszów. She is the chairwoman of the Rzeszów branch of the Historiographical Society. Her scholarly output includes over one hundred and twenty articles on the history of historical education, history of historiography and history of women. She is the coeditor of several collective works: Galicja a powstanie styczniowe (with Agnieszka Kawalec and Leonid Zaszkilniak) (Warsaw−Rzeszów 2013), Historia. Ciągłość i zmiana (with Paweł Sierżęga and Joanna Pisulińska) (Rzeszów 2016) and Wspólne dziedzictwo. Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów w polskiej, litewskiej i ukraińskiej historiografii XIX-XXI wieku (with Joanna Pisulińska, Paweł Sierżga and Leonid Zaszkilniak) (Rzeszów 2019). She published the following monographs: Praktyka nauczania historii w Polsce (Rzeszów 2002), Siła tradycji, presja życia. Kobiety w dawnych podręcznikach dziejów Polski (1795-1918) (Rzeszów 2005), Ludwik Finkel i Akademia Umiejętności w Krakowie. Z dziejów współpracy Lwowa i Krakowa w XIX i XX wieku (Rzeszów 2011) and Szymon Askenazy i jego korespondencja z Ludwikiem Finklem (Rzeszów 2013). She has collaborated with Paweł Sierżęga on the chapter dedicated to the history of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Lviv between 1869 and 1914 (volume 2 of the monograph).
Grzegorz Hryciuk: an associate professor, head of the Department of Eastern European History at the Institute of History, University of Wrocław. His research interests concentrate on national issues in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of Ukraine and Polish-Ukrainian relations in the 20th century and forced migration in Eastern Europe. He conducted research in Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Belorussian, Lithuanian, German and Czech archives. He is the author of more than two hundred scholarly publications, including the monographs „Gazeta Lwowska” 1941–1944 (2nd edition, Wrocław 1996), Polacy we Lwowie w latach 1939–1944. Życie codzienne (Warsaw 2000), „Kumityt”. Polski Komitet Opieki Lwów Miasto w latach 1941–1944 (Toruń 2000), Przemiany narodowościowe i ludnościowe w Galicji Wschodniej i na Wołyniu w latach 1931–1948 (Toruń 2004) and Przesiedleńcy. Wielka epopeja Polaków 1944–1946 (Kraków 2023). He coauthored Masowe deportacje ludności w Związku Radzieckim (Toruń 2004), coauthored and edited Wysiedlenia, wypędzenia, ucieczki 1939-1959. Atlas ziem Polski (2nd revised and supplemented edition, Warsaw 2022) and published source editions, for example, Wołyń i Galicja Wschodnia pod okupacją niemiecką 1943–1944 (with Łukasz Adamski) (Warsaw 2019) and Wołyń i Galicja Wschodnia za „drugiego Sowieta” (with Łukasz Adamski) (Warsaw 2019). He has written the chapter on the historical sciences at the Jan Kazimierz University/the Ivan Franko State University of Lviv between 1939 and 1945 (volume 2 of the monograph).
Bartosz Juszczak: an assistant professor at the Institute of Slavic Philology of the University of Wrocław; Bohemist, Russicist, and Slavist. He received the Ph.D. degree in linguistics with honours from the University of Wrocław. His main research interests are centered on Slavic linguistics, Polish, Czech and Russian urban dialectology in its diachronic and synchronic aspects, cultural and typological linguistics, and onomastics. He is the author of the monograph Językowo-kulturowy obraz przestrzeni miejskiej. Polsko-czesko-rosyjskie diachroniczne studium konfrontatywne (Wrocław 2021) and articles published in Polish and foreign journals such as Bohemistyka, Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej, Studia Rossica Posnaniensia and Slavica Wratislaviensia. He coedited several collections of articles, including Slavica Wratislaviensia. Wyraz i zdanie w językach słowiańskich. Opis, konfrontacja, przekład (Wrocław 2020) and Słowiańszczyzna dawniej i dziś – język, literatura, kultura. Monografia ze studiów slawistycznych V (Wrocław 2022). His chapter explores the history of Slavic philology at the University of Lviv (volume 1 of the monograph).
Tomasz Krzyżowski: a historian, Armenologist, holder of the Master’s degree in the history of Eastern Europe and the Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of History and Cultural Heritage of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków (2018), where he was also a lecturer (2018–2019). He completed postgraduate studies in archival and library science. Since 2019, he has been a scholar at the Research Center for Armenian Culture in Poland of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kraków. He participated in research projects and scientific conferences on the history of Polish Armenians, the Catholic Church in Eastern Europe, the south-eastern borderlands and archival collections in Lviv. Since 2015, he has been a secretary to the editorial board of the academic journal Lehahayer. Czasopismo poświęcone dziejom Ormian polskich. He collaborated on the series “Pomniki dziejowe Ormian polskich” and was a beneficiary of two research projects: “Encyklopedia Ormian polskich” and “Ormianie kresowi na Śląsku po 1945 r.”. In 2020, he was awarded by the quarterly Przegląd Wschodni for his book Archidiecezja lwowska obrządku ormiańskokatolickiego w latach 1902–1938 (Kraków 2020) and, in 2022, received a scholarship from the Lanckoroński Foundation. Since 2024, he has been the principal investigator of the research project “Duchowieństwo ormiańskie w Polsce od XIV do XXI wieku. Słownik biograficzny” funded by the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities. He is a member of the Polish Oral History Association and the Armenian Cultural Society, and the author of several dozen scholarly studies and source editions on the history and culture of Armenians in Poland between the 18th and 20th centuries. He has written the chapter on the history of Oriental studies at the University of Lviv (volume 1 of the monograph).
Ewa Krystyna Kulak: a D. Litt. holder affiliated with the Institute of Romance Philology at the University of Wrocław, where she teaches Spanish literature and history. Her research interests focus primarily on literary works interpreted as documents of social life. She published in the fields of Spanish and French literary studies, including the monographs Owoce hesperyjskich ogrodów. Obraz literatur Półwyspu Iberyjskiego w polskich wydawnictwach informacyjnych i popularnonaukowych (Toruń 2002) and Kształtowanie się poczucia tożsamości Katalończyków na podstawie piśmiennictwa okresu odrodzenia kulturalnego i narodowego (XIX w. − początek XX w.) (Kraków 2016). She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Estudios Hispánicos. She has coauthored, with Beata Baczyńska, the chapter on the history of Romance philology at the University of Lviv (volume 1 of the monograph).
Marek Miławicki: a Dominican, theologian, holder of the Ph.D. degree in the humanities (from the University of the National Education Commission in Kraków), deputy director of the Dominican Historical Institute in Kraków. He is currently living in Kiev, where he is establishing the centre for historical research at the Superior Institute of Religious Sciences of St. Thomas Aquinas run by the Dominican Friars. He has authored more than sixty publications on the history of the Order of Preachers and the Catholic Church of the Latin and Armenian rites in Poland and, more broadly, in Central and Eastern Europe, with particular emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. He is the editor of several collections of studies issued in the series of the Dominican Historical Institute and author of the monograph Polscy dominikanie na misjach w Chinach w latach 1937–1952 (Kraków 2007). He has contributed the chapter on the history of theology at the University of Lviv (volume 3 of the monograph).
Marjan Mudry (Мар’ян Мудрий): a graduate of the Faculty of Contemporary History of Ukraine at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, at which he now holds the position of docent. His area of expertise lies in the history of Ukraine and Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. He defended the doctoral dissertation titled Stosunki ukraińsko-polskie w Galicji w latach 1867–1890. Aspekt polityczny (1997). He is the author of multiple publications on the history of politics, mentality and intellectual life in Galicia, including the history of the University of Lviv, and coauthor of the synthesis of the history of Ukraine Час народів. Історія України ХІХ ст. / Czas narodów. Historia Ukrainy XIX wieku (Львів 2016). The chapter he has contributed concerns the dispute over the University of Lviv’s utraquism and the circumstances behind the establishment of the Secret Ukrainian University in Lviv between 1921 and 1925 (volume 2 of the monograph).
Jakub Pigoń: an associate professor at the Institute of Classical, Mediterranean and Oriental Studies at the Faculty of Letters, University of Wrocław. He is a member of the Committee on Ancient Culture of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Polish Philological Society and the Wrocław Scientific Society. As a classical scholar, he specialises in Roman literature of the Augustan period and the early Roman imperial period (1st−2nd century AD). He has authored several dozen national and international publications dedicated to such authors as Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, Pliny the Younger, Tacitus and Suetonius. He edited The Children of Herodotus: Greek and Roman Historiography and Related Genres (Newcastle upon Tyne 2008) and compiled ten comprehensive entries for The Tacitus Encyclopedia edited by V.E. Pagán (Hoboken−Chichester 2023). Between 2003 and 2023, he served as editor-in-chief of the journal Eos: Commentarii Societatis Philologae Polonorum (established in 1893 in Lviv by Ludwik Ćwikliński). His chapter investigates the history of classical philology at the University of Lviv (volume 1 of the monograph).
Mirosława Podhajecka: an Anglicist, associate professor at the Institute of Linguistics of the University of Opole. Her research interests include the history of lexicography, language contact, history of teaching English as a foreign language and biographies. She is the author of three monographs: Russian Borrowings in English: A Dictionary and Corpus Study (Opole 2013), A History of Polish-English/English-Polish Bilingual Lexicography (1788–1947) (Opole 2016) and Lektorzy języka angielskiego w międzywojniu (Kraków 2021), as well as over fifty articles and book chapters. She was a member of the team of authors compiling the dictionary Leksykografia. Słownik specjalistyczny (Kraków 2020). She participated in more than forty conferences in Poland and abroad, and gave several guest lectures. She is a beneficiary of scholarships from the Cordell Collection of Dictionaries, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, USA (2005, 2012); principal investigator of the research project funded by the National Science Centre (2011–2016); and beneficiary of a scholarship from the Clifford and Mary Corbridge Trust (2018). She is a member of international lexicographical associations, including the European Association for Lexicography and International Society for Historical Lexicography and Lexicology, the Polish Linguistic Society and the Polish Association for the Study of English. She is on the editorial board of “World Histories of Lexicography and Lexicology”, a monograph series published by Berlin-based Language Science Press. Her chapter is dedicated to the history of English philology at the University of Lviv (volume 1 of the monograph).
Adam Redzik: a full professor, lawyer and historian, head of the Department of Law and Penitentiary Policy at the University of Warsaw, member of the Commission on the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and cofounder of the Allerhand Institute. His scholarly output consists of hundreds of publications, including the monographs Wydział Prawa Uniwersytetu Lwowskiego w latach 1939–1946 (Lublin 2006), Prawo prywatne na Uniwersytecie Jana Kazimierza we Lwowie (Warsaw 2009), Academia Militans. Uniwersytet Jana Kazimierza we Lwowie (with Roman Duda, Marian Mudry, Łukasz T. Sroka, Wanda Wojtkiewicz-Rok, Józef Wołczański and Andrzej K. Wróblewski) (Kraków 2015), Rafał Lemkin (1900–1959) – co-creator of international criminal law. Short biography (Warsaw 2017) and Historia Adwokatury (coauthored with Tomasz J. Kotliński) (4th edition, Warsaw 2018). He translated and edited, among others, Jakub Honigsman’s Zagłada Żydów lwowskich (1941–1944) (Warsaw 2007), and wrote the foreword for and edited Prawo karne, wykład porównawczy z uwzględnieniem prawa obowiązującego w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej by Juliusz Makarewicz (Warsaw 2022). He has written the chapter on the history of the University of Lviv from the beginnings of the Jesuit College to the first half of the 20th century on the basis of official legal records (volume 1 of the monograph).
Karol Sanojca: an associate professor at the Institute of History of the University of Wrocław, head of the Centre for the Bibliography of Silesian History at that institute, deputy chairman of the Commission for the Evaluation of School Textbooks of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kraków and member of the Polish-Ukrainian Bilateral Expert Committee on improving the content of school history and geography textbooks. He is the editor of Opinie Edukacyjne Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności and author of two monographs: Obraz sąsiadów w szkolnictwie powszechnym Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej (Wrocław 2003) and Relacje polsko-ukraińskie w szkolnictwie państwowym południowo-wschodnich województw Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej (Kraków 2013). His research interests range from the history of education and science in the 19th and 20th centuries, to problems of contemporary historical education, to scholarly information on the history of Silesia. He has written two chapters: one on the historical sciences and the other on the history of anthropology, ethnology, archaeology and prehistory at the University of Lviv between 1914 and 1939 (volume 2 of the monograph).
Paweł Sierżęga: an associate professor at the Department of Historiography and History Teaching Methodology, University of Rzeszów. He published nearly ninety scholarly articles on the history of historiography, history of Galicia and biographical studies. He coedited the academic journal Galicja. Studia i Materiały. Over the last few years, he served as coeditor of, among others, Złota księga historiografii lwowskiej XIX i XX wieku (with Jerzy Maternicki and Leonid Zaszkilniak) (vol. 2, Rzeszów 2014), Iсторія та історики у Львівському університеті: традиції та сучасність (до 75-ліття створення історичного факультету) (with Leonid Zaszkilniak) (Львів 2015), Materiały V Kongresu Mediewistów Polskich, vol. 1: Recepcja i odrzucenie. Kontakty międzykulturowe w średniowieczu (with Andrzej Rozwałka, Leszek Słupecki and Michał Dzik) (Rzeszów 2017) and Спільна спадщиа. Річ Посполита обох народів в польській і українській історичній думці XIX i XX ст. / Wspólne dziedzictwo. Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów w polskiej i ukraińskiej myśli historycznej XIX i XX w. (with Lidia Łazurko and Witalij Telwak) (Drohobycz 2019). He is the author of two monographs: Obchody 200. rocznicy odsieczy wiedeńskiej w Galicji (1883 r.). Galicja i jej dziedzictwo (vol. 17, Rzeszów 2003) and Kazimierz Tyszkowski (1894–1940). Z dziejów nauki polskiej w międzywojennym Lwowie (Rzeszów 2011). He has written, in collaboration with Mariola Hoszowska, the chapter on the history of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Lviv between 1869 and 1914 (volume 2 of the monograph).
Helena Sojka-Masztalerz: a linguist, Polonist, Ukrainist, doctor of the humanities. She is affiliated with the Department of the History of the Polish Language at the Institute of Polish Philology, University of Wrocław. Her research explores issues in cultural linguistics and linguistic pragmatics. She is particularly interested in Polish-Ukrainian linguistic ties (primarily in terms of onomastics) and the history of science in the former eastern borderlands of Poland. She authored a range of publications, including Rusini czy Ukraińcy? Językowy obraz nacji ukraińskiej w prasie polskiej (1918–1939) (Wrocław 2004), Funkcjonowanie etnonimów Rusin i Ukrainiec w prasie polskiej (1918–1939) (Szczecin 2005), Norma językowa w nazwach geograficznych współczesnej Ukrainy (Poznań 2017), Dawne zbiory Uniwersytetu Lwowskiego jako część cyfrowego GLAM (with Marcin Szala) (Warsaw 2022) and Dawne polskie archiwa lwowskie. Dziedzictwo czy obciążenie? (Wrocław 2023). She has written the chapter on the history of Ukrainian philology at the University of Lviv (volume 1 of the monograph).
Maria Stinia: an associate professor at the Department of the History of Culture, Auxiliary Sciences of History and Archival Studies of the Institute of History, Jagiellonian University. She is a member of two commissions of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences: the Commission for the Evaluation of School Textbooks and the Commission on the History of Science. She is a member of the Society of Lovers of the History and Monuments of Kraków, the Polish Historical Society and the Society for the History of Education. She serves as editor-in-chief of Kroniki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. She authored over one hundred publications concerning the history of science, education and culture in Galicia in the 19th century and the history of Kraków in the second half of the 19th century, with particular emphasis on the history of the Jagiellonian University. Seeking ways to effectively enhance the knowledge and skills in history is another important element of her scholarly activity. She edited several collections of articles, including Fundacje stypendialne na rzecz rozwoju kadry naukowej z zakresu humanistyki w zarządzie AU i PAU w latach 1872–1939 (Kraków 2023), Renata Dutkowa (1927–2015) (Kraków 2022) and W kręgu historii nauki i oświaty. Uniwersyteckie środowiska filologów krakowskich i lwowskich 1850–1939 (Kraków 2018), the last two of which were coedited with Tomasz Pudłocki. She is the author of two monographs: Państwowe szkolnictwo gimnazjalne w Krakowie w okresie autonomii galicyjskiej (Kraków 2004) and Uniwersytet Jagielloński w latach 1871–1914. Modernizacja procesu nauczania (Kraków 2014). Her chapter has been dedicated to the beginnings of historical sciences at the University of Lviv (volume 2 of the monograph).