Ewa Domańska

Ewa Domańska is a distinguished full professor of human sciences and holds a permanent position at the Faculty of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. She has been cooperating with Stanford University since 2000 (Anthropology Department, Archaeology Center, DLCL, and CREEES). Her scholarly interests are rooted in the comparative theory of the human and social sciences, where she explores the interplay between emerging trends in the humanities and social sciences, the theory and history of historiography, ecological humanities, and critical studies of ecocides and genocides. She is a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), a member of Academia Europaea, and a board member (President from 2015 to 2022) of the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography (CISH – The International Committee of Historical Sciences).

Domańska was a fellow of the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education (NUFFIC, 1991–1992; doctoral studies at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands – with Frank Ankersmit); a Fulbright fellow at the University of California at Berkeley (1995–96; postdoctoral studies with Hayden White); a Kościuszko Foundation fellow at Stanford University (2000–2001); a fellow of the Center for Cultural Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz (1996); and a fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University (1998).

In 2024, Ewa Domańska was honored with the prestigious Reinhart Koselleck Visiting Professorship at Bielefeld University, Germany. That same year, she received the Golden Cross of Merit from the President of Poland in recognition of her academic research, outstanding contributions to the promotion of historical knowledge, and organizational leadership.

Domańska’s current project on anticipatory history reimagines historical knowledge as a future-oriented practice, proposing “historical prototypes” and anticipatory sources to shape more responsible futures. In Spring 2025 she teaches a course on “Political Exhumations: Killing Sites in Comparative Perspective” (ANTHRO 137D, ARCHLGY 137, ARCHLGY 237, DLCL 237, HISTORY 229C, HISTORY 329C, REES 237C).