Department of Auxiliary Sciences of History and Archival Studies

Vitaliy Perkun, M.A., Ph.D. (winter semester 2017/2018)

A member of the Institute of History of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, who has closely cooperated with research institutions in Poland since 1999, visits the Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archival Science, FF UHK.

Among other things, he was a visiting professor at the University of Warsaw (2007-2013) and he has been a member of the Polish National Commission at UNESCO as part of a project at the Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Methodology of the University of Warsaw since 2017.

He mainly focuses on auxiliary historical sciences such as early modern sphragistics, diplomatics and iconography, further on church history and he examines Ukrainian manuscripts stored in foreign collections. On behalf of FF UHK he publishes several studies in scientific magazines entered in the ERIH+ and SCOPUS databases and he participates in teaching.

Dr. Yurii Smolnikov (winter semester 2019/2020) 

Dr. Yurii Smolnikov taught the courses “History of Propaganda and Information Warfare” and “Global Terrorism” at the UHK in the winter semester 2019-2020.  He received his PhD from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Dr. Yurii Smolnikov is Associate Professor at the Department of History and Documentation at the National Aviation University (Kyiv, Ukraine) and at the Department of International Relations at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine) where he teaches courses in history and political science.

His research is mainly focuses on nationalism, terrorism, far-right movements in Europe and the United States, and propaganda and information warfare. He is also one of the organizers of the international project “Involving Youth in Municipal Planning” (Ukraine, USA, Lithuania, Switzerland), designed to attract university students to local government.

Dr. Tomasz Kaluski (summer semester 2021)

Dr. Tomasz Kałuski is assistant professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice. He graduated with a master's degree in history from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 2004. He then obtained his PhD from the University of Zielona Góra in 2009. His PhD thesis was devoted to guild seals in Silesia (duchy of Głogów) from the Middle Ages till 19th century.

He has received several scholarships such as scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD 2007–2008 and again in 2016), then the Herder scholarship in Marburg in 2010. He was also a National Science Center grant holder in Poland from 2017-2018.

His research interests include: the auxiliary sciences of history, especially sphragistics and heraldry. He researches seals visuality and their active role in constructing identity of the pre-modern societies. Currently he focuses on the Cistercian seals in Silesia from the Middle Ages till the beginning of the 19th century.