Ewa Domańska

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

Domanska 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); Fulbright fellow at the University of California at Berkeley – 1995-96 (postdoctoral studies with Hayden White); Kościuszko Foundation fellow at Stanford University (2000-2001); fellow of the Center of Cultural Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz (1996); fellow of The School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University (1998).

She is currently conducting a research project on anticipatory history. In Spring 2024 Domańska teaches a course on “Political Exhumations: Killing Sites in Comparative Perspective” (ANTHRO 137D, ANTHRO 237D, ARCHLGY 137, ARCHLGY 237, DLCL 237, HISTORY 229C, HISTORY 329C, REES 237C).