Ewa Stańczyk is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History. She earned her PhD from the University of Manchester in 2010. Prior to her appointment at the UvA she was Thomas Brown Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin (2010-2013) and the EURIAS Junior Fellow at The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar (2014-2015).
Her current research interests lie in visual history, with a particular focus on comics and political cartoons. Her monograph Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland (Ohio State University Press, 2022) won the 2023 Charles Hatfield Book Prize and the BASEES George Blazyca Prize in East European Studies, and has been reviewed in European Comic Art, Journal of Popular Culture, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Slavonic and East European Review, Slavic Review, The Polish Review, ImageText, The Comics Grid, and International Journal of Comic Art Blog. Her new book Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland is out with the University Press of Mississippi (2024).
She is a member of Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies (ARTES) and a co-coordinator of research cluster Identity and Belonging.
Since 2023, she is the PI in the NWO Open Competition M grant "Soft" Antisemitism? Cartoons and the Decline of Democracy in Interwar Czechoslovakia (2023-2028).
Over the years, she has held numerous international research fellowships:
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