Joanna Michlic
Joanna Beata Michlic | |
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| Occupation | Historian |
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| Education | PhD (2000), University of London |
| Thesis | Ethnic nationalism and the myth of the threatening other: The case of Poland and perceptions of its Jewish minority from the late nineteenth century to the modern period |
| Academic advisors | John Klier, Anthony D. Smith |
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| Institutions | University College London |
| Notable works | Neighbors Respond: The Controversy about Jedwabne (co-editor, 2003) |
| Website | "Dr Joanna Beata Michlic", University College London. |
Joanna Beata Michlic is a Polish social and cultural historian specializing in Polish-Jewish history and the Holocaust in Poland. An honorary senior research associate at the Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies at University College London (UCL), she focuses in particular on the collective memory of traumatic events, particularly as it relates to gender and childhood.
Michlic is the author and editor of several books on Jewish-Polish relations and Jewish history, including Neighbors Respond: The Controversy about Jedwabne (edited with Antony Polonsky, 2003); Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present (2006); and Jewish Families in Europe, 1939–Present: History, Representation, and Memory (2017).