Dr. Aleksandra Pomiecko

Biography

Aleksandra Pomiecko is a lecturer in Modern History at King's College London. She previously taught at the University of St Andrews, University of Manitoba, and University of Toronto. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and continues to contribute to the Encyclopedia Project. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and her Master's degree from Jagiellonian University. Her research interests include war violence in twentieth-century Eastern Europe, particularly focusing on paramilitary, partisan, and bandit activity. She examines local lived experiences during conflicts, with a current focus on banditry and insurgency in Eastern European borderland regions during World War II. Her work centers on the transnational Belarusian networks and actors engaged in conflicts throughout the twentieth century.

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