The Politics of Memory in Post-Authoritarian Transitions, Volume One: Case Studies

About Anna Ratke-MajewskaJoanna Marszalek-KawaJoanna Piechowiak-Lamparska

Joanna Marszalek-Kawa is Professor and Head of the Department of the Political System of the Republic of Poland at the Nicolaus Copernicus University Poland and the Director of the Centre for Eastern Studies and the Vice-President of the Torun branch of the Polish Political Science Association. Her main interests include European parliamentary systems Asian studies the political system of Poland and comparative constitutional systems. She is also the head of the research project The Politics of Memory as the Constitutional Factor of New Identity during the Transition from Authoritarian Regimes .Joanna Piechowiak-Lamparska holds a PhD in Political Science and works at the Department of the History of International Relations at Nicolaus Copernicus University Poland. She is a member of the editorial teams of a number of scientific journals and is the author of publications in Polish English Russian Ukrainian and Chinese. Her research concerns the theoretical models of international relations and geopolitics in the Caspian Sea region and the South Caucasus.Anna Ratke-Majewska is a Doctor of Social Sciences in Political Science and graduated from the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University Poland. She is a member of the research team of the project The Politics of Memory as the Constitutional Factor of New Identity during the Transition from Authoritarian Regimes . Her scientific interests focus on the politics of memory and transitional justice the theory of political identity and the theory and practice of foreign policy including relations between Poland and Latin American states.Patryk Wawrzynski is a Doctor of Political Science and a Researcher at the Nicolaus Copernicus University Poland. He is a Scholar of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education the Mecklemburg-Vorpommern Ministry of Education Science and Culture the Copernicus Graduate School and the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation. He has authored a number of papers on political mythologies political culture the government''''s remembrance policy and comparative transitional politics.