Sunday, February 08, 2026 @ 12pm Eastern

 

Joanna B. Michlic has enjoyed a distinguished international academic career as a cultural and social historian of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and East European studies with a specialty in childhood and antisemitism and nationalism, and memorialization of the Holocaust. She is an author of numerous publications, including Poland’s Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present; Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Representations of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe (co-edited with John-Paul-Himka); Jewish Family 1939 –Present: History, Representation, and Memory; and Shattered Liberation: Sexual Violence Against Holocaust Survivors (1943-1946) (co-edited with Anna Cichopek-Gajrar and Nina Paulovicova). Her forthcoming singled-author publication is Through the Eyes of Jewish Child Survivors from Poland: Family, War, Identity and Nationhood: to be published in spring 2026 in English by Nebraska University Press and in German by Dietz-Verlag publisher. Her work has also been widely published in leading academic journals and translated into several languages. Michlic has also been actively engaged in public scholarship, advising museums, educational institutions, and international organizations on Holocaust education and memory politics.