Przemysław PAZIK

Dr Przemysław Pazik is a historian of Christian Democracy and church-state relations in the twentieth century, for which he has conducted research at the Institute of European History in Mainz, the Historical Archives of the EU in Florence, as well as the Pontifical University of Holy Cross in Rome. He holds MA degrees in history and Italian from the University of Warsaw, where he now teaches, having been awarded his PhD in twentieth-century history in 2019. Dr Pazik has been a member of the research team of the ERC-funded project SOVEREIGNTY: Challenges of Secularism and Nation Building in Eastern Europe since 1780, led by Professor Andras Fejerdy.

Dr Pazik is also an alumnus of the Falcone and Borsellino promotion (2014/15) at the College of Europe in Natolin, where he was a member of the 3R Three Ukrainian Revolutions project between 2015 and 2018. In 2025 he returned to the European Civilization Chair to conduct a research project on the College of Europe in Natolin from its establishment in 1994 until Poland’s accession to the EU in 2004.

Recent publications:

"The Intelligentsia’s New Clothes: The Fall of Christian Democracy and the New Model of Political Catholicism in Poland 1945–1958", East Central Europe, 52, 2025, 1, pp. 106-131.

“A Forgotten Path of Political Catholicism? National-Catholicism in Poland and in Spain 1939–1945.” Aportes. Revista de Historia Contemporánea, 39, no. 114, 2024, pp.128-155.