EAJS Membership Assistant
Kinga Migalska is a historian and art historian. Dr Migalska graduated from Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and recently completed her PhD dissertation concerning the history and development of Jewish museums in Poland during the communist era. Her research interest focuses on the fate of Jewish material heritage in postwar Poland. She is an author of several scientific and popular science articles, for example, “The Question of Appropriateness. Museums Established in Synagogues in Communist Poland: The Cases of Łańcut and Włodawa” (Arts, 2019, 8(4)). In the past few years, she has participated in multiple projects inventorying monuments, including the inventory of historic Roman Catholic churches and monasteries in the territories of Vohlynia (Ukraine), and the inventory of the historic Jewish cemetery in Milówka (Poland).
Since 2018, Kinga has been working as a researcher in the Department of Graphics and Drawings in the National Museum in Kraków. In 2017-2018, she was a fellow of the GEOP Doctoral Seminar at POLIN Museum in Warsaw. She is a member of The European Association for Jewish Studies and the Polish Association for Jewish Studies.
Since 2017, Kinga has been the Membership Assistant for the European Association for Jewish Studies, assisting with the processing of new membership applications, communications with new members and other ad hoc membership administration matters.