Agnieszka Pufelska

Cultural historian. After studying German and cultural studies at the State University of Applied Sciences in Płock/Poland, the Viadrina University in Frankfurt an der Oder and the University of Tel Aviv/Israel, she completed her doctorate at the European University Viadrina in 2005 with a thesis on Polish anti-Semitism. She then worked as a research assistant at the University of Potsdam, where she completed her habilitation in 2015 with a thesis on the Polish image of Prussia during the Enlightenment.

During this time, she was a Junior Fellow at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald from October 2007 to September 2008. After several teaching assignments, including in Buenos Aires and in 2020/2021 as a visiting professor at the Institute for Eastern European History at the University of Vienna, she has been a research associate at the Northeast Institute at the University of Hamburg in Lüneburg since 2016. Since 2016, Agnieszka Pufelska has been a member of the editorial board of Nordost-Archiv, the journal of the aforementioned institute. In 2023, she received the Jubilee Prize for Science of the Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung and in 2024 she became a full member of the Historical Commission of Berlin e.V.