Dr. Robert T. Tomczak

Research areas

history of the early modern period with a focus on intellectual and educational history and the history of early modern Czech-Polish relations

Graduated programmes, schools and thesis topics, academic degrees

2009–2014: Master in History – specialisation in Early Modern History, Faculty of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, thesis title: Studenci Rzeczypospolitej na Uniwersytecie praskim w XVII-XVIII wieku / Students of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the University of Prague in the 17th and 18th centuries

2014–2018: Dr in History – specialisation in Early Modern History, Faculty of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, thesis title: Kontakty edukacyjne Polaków z Uniwersytetami praskimi do końca XVIII wieku / Scientific Relations between Poles and Prague Universities until the end of the 18th Century

Foreign internships and scholarships

2012–2013: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Erasmus Programme
2015–2016: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, PhD study stay
2019–2020: University of Basel, Bundes-Exzellenz-Stipendien post-doc study stay
2022: Australian Catholic University (Melbourne), Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, study stay
2022: Australian Research Council, Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Virtual Research Fellow
2022: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Lanckoroński Foundation Scholarship for a one-month study stay
2022: ulius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Polnische Historische Mission scholarship for a one-month study stay

International grants and projects

2015–2019: Społeczne i kulturowe uwarunkowania edukacji w Rzeczypospolitej XVI-XVIII wieku / Social and Cultural Determinants of Education in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the 16th to the 18th Century, National Programme for the Development of Humanities – program Rozwój 2.b, reg. n. 2bH 15 0122 83, beneficiary: Polish Historical Society, team member

2019–2023: Średniowieczne i wczesnonowożytne polonika w czeskich zbiorach naukowych / Medieval and Early Modern Polonica in Czech Archival Collections, National Programme for the Development of Humanities - program Dziedzictwo Narodowe 2, reg. n. 11H 18 0181 86, beneficiary: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, team member

2020: Polskie wczesnonowożytne sztambuchy (alba amicorum) w amerykańskich zbiorach naukowych / Polish Early Modern Books of Friendship (alba amicorum) in American Scientific Collections, National Science Centre – program Miniatura 4, reg. n. 2020/04/X/HS3/00226, beneficiary: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Principal Investigator 

2022–2026: Polskie królowe XV i XVI wieku jako żony i matki / Queens Consort of Poland in the 15th and 16th Centuries as Wives and Mothers, National Science Centre – program OPUS 22, reg. n. 2021/43/B/HS3/01490, beneficiary: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, post-doc

2022–2027: Wielkopolskie księgi miejskie w okresie nowożytnym - edycje źródłowe / Municipal Registers of Wielkopolska Province in the Early Modern Period – Source Editions, National Programme for the Development of Humanities – program Dziedzictwo Narodowe 10, reg. n. NPRH/DN/SN/494829/2021/10, beneficiary: The Poznań Society for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences, Principal Investigator

Membership of editorial boards

Assistant Editor of the Brepols Book series East Central Europe, 476–1795 AD/CE 
Secretary of the Editorial Board of Historia Slavorum Occidentis 
Member of the Editorial Board of Kuděj Journal [Kuděj – Časopis pro kulturní dějiny] 

Membership in domestic and foreign professional societies and scientific councils

Member of the Programme Board of the Faculty of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (2020–2024)
Member of the Polish Historical Society [Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne]
Member of the Polish-Czech Scientific Association [Polsko-Czeskie Towarzystwo Naukowe]

Significant awards

2021: START Foundation for Polish Science stipend for for young, talented researchers at the outset of their career
2021: The award of Professor Czesława Majorka for the best Ph.D. thesis in the history of education