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Professor
Natalia Nowakowska
Born
Natalia Magdalena Nowakowska

1977 (age 47–48)
London, United Kingdom
NationalityEnglish
Occupation(s)Historian and academic
TitleProfessor of European History
SpouseNick Kerigan
Academic background
Alma materLincoln College, Oxford
ThesisPapacy and piety in the career of Cardinal Fryderyk Jagiellon, Prince of Poland, 1468-1503 (2003)
Doctoral advisorNicholas Davidson
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsKing's College London
University College, Oxford
Somerville College, Oxford

Natalia Magdalena Nowakowska (born 1977) is an English historian of late medieval and Renaissance Europe with a particular interest in the Kingdom of Poland. She is Professor of European History at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in History at Somerville College.[1]

Academic career

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Nowakowska grew up in the Polish diaspora community which formed in London after the Second World War. She read History at Lincoln College, Oxford, matriculating in 1995.[2] After graduating she briefly worked in social policy research before returning to Lincoln College to work on her doctorate on the life and career of Cardinal Fryderyk Jagiellon, which she completed in 2003. Her doctoral supervisor was Nicholas Davidson.[3]

Nowakowska then took up a one-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at King's College London before joining University College, Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow in October 2005.[3] In 2006 she was elected to a Tutorial Fellowship in History at Somerville College.[4] In October 2019 Nowakowska was awarded the Title of Distinction of Professor of European History by the University of Oxford.[5] She has previously served on the governing board of the university's Faculty of History.[6]

Research

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Nowakowska's first monograph, based on her doctoral research, was published by Ashgate in 2007. For the book Nowakowska was named co-winner of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies' Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies alongside Geneviève Zubrzycki.[7] A Polish translation of the book was published in 2011.[8]

In 2012 Nowakowska was awarded a €1.4 million European Research Council Starting Grant to undertake an international project entitled "The Jagiellonians: Dynasty, Identity and Memory in Central Europe". She and her team of five postdoctoral researchers analysed the cultural memory of the Jagiellonian dynasty, producing a 2018 public exhibition at the Bodleian Library and a series of essays and monographs from this research.[4] Nowakowska's edited collection, Remembering the Jagiellonians, was published by Routledge in 2018.

In 2018 Nowakowska's study of the early Reformation in Poland, King Sigismund of Poland and Martin Luther: The Reformation Before Confessionalization, was published by Oxford University Press. The book won a total of four prizes, including a second Kulczycki Book Prize and the Gerald Strauss Prize awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society for the best book published in the field of German Reformation history. Her research for the book was supported by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship.[9]

Nowakowska is currently working on a new global history of the Jagiellonian dynasty.[1]

Media work

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Nowakowska has contributed to two blogs related to the discipline of history: one, Somerville Historian, explores teaching and writing history at the University of Oxford and was begun in 2010; the other, History Monograph, documented Nowakowska's process of researching and writing a history book during the year of her British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2012-13).

In 2022 Nowakowska appeared as an interviewee in the BBC Radio 4 series The Invention of Poland hosted by Misha Glenny.[10] In 2024 she was interviewed for another Radio 4 serial, The Reinvention of Poland, hosted by Anne McElvoy.[11] She has also appeared as a guest in podcasts by the Historical Association and BBC History exploring the history of late medieval and early modern Poland and Lithuania[12] and the role of the Jagiellonians in shaping central Europe during these periods.

Personal life

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Nowakowska is married to Nick Kerigan.[13]

Bibliography

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Books

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  • Church, State and Dynasty in Renaissance Poland: The Career of Cardinal Fryderyk Jagiellon (1486-1503) (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007)
  • King Sigismund of Poland and Martin Luther: The Reformation Before Confessionalization (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)
  • Remembering the Jagiellonians (editor; London: Routledge, 2018)

Book chapters

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  • 'Lamenting the Church? Bishop Andrzej Kyrzcki and Early Reformation Polemic', in Almut Suerbaum, George Southcombe and Benjamin Thompson, eds., Polemic: Language as Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Discourse (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), pp. 223-236
  • 'Reform Before Reform? Religious Currents in Central Europe, c. 1500', in Howard Louthan and Graeme Murdock, eds., A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe (Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishing, 2015), pp. 121-143
  • 'An Ambiguous Golden Age: The Jagiellonians in Polish Memory and Historical Consciousness', in Natalia Nowakowska, ed., Remembering the Jagiellonians (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 49-70
  • 'Rioting Blacksmiths and Jewish Women: Pillarised Reformation Memory in Early Modern Poland', in Brian Cummings, Ceri Law, Karis Riley and Alexandra Walsham, eds., Remembering the Reformation (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. 118-135

Journal articles

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  • 'From Strassburg to Trent: Bishops, Printing and Liturgical Reform in the Fifteenth Century', Past & Present 213 (2011), pp. 3-39
  • 'Forgetting Lutheranism: Historians and the Early Reformation in Poland (1517-1548)', Church History and Religious Culture 92:2-3 (2012), pp. 281-303
  • 'High Clergy and Printers: Anti-Reformation Polemic in the Kingdom of Poland, 1520-36', Historical Research 87:235 (2014), pp. 43-64
  • 'What's in a Word? The Etymology and Historiography of Dynasty - Renaissance Europe and Beyond', Global Intellectual History 7:3 (2022), pp. 453-474

References

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  1. ^ a b "Professor Natalia Nowakowska". Faculty of History, University of Oxford. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  2. ^ "Natalia Nowakowska". Somerville College, Oxford. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  3. ^ a b Nowakowska, Natalia (2007). Church, State and Dynasty in Renaissance Poland: The Career of Cardinal Fryderyk Jagiellon (1486-1503). Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. p. xi. ISBN 9780754656449.
  4. ^ a b "Same past, different histories: Remembering the Jagiellonians across Europe". European Research Council. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
  5. ^ "Recognition of Distinction" (PDF). Oxford University Gazette. 150 (5251): 13. 2019.
  6. ^ "Elections to Faculty Boards: History MT 2020". University of Oxford Governance and Planning. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
  7. ^ "The Kulczycki Book Prize". Polish Studies Association. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
  8. ^ "Nowakowska, Natalia". Johnson & Alcock. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
  9. ^ "King Sigismund and Martin Luther: the Reformation Before Confessionalization - Winner of Four Book Prizes". Faculty of History, University of Oxford. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
  10. ^ "The Invention of Poland, A nation without a state". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
  11. ^ "The Reinvention of Poland". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
  12. ^ "An Introduction to Late Medieval and Renaissance Poland & Lithuania". Historical Association. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
  13. ^ Nowakowska, Natalia (2018). King Sigismund of Poland and Martin Luther: The Reformation Before Confessionalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. viii. ISBN 9780198813453.
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