A cultural studies scholar and professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Since 2013 she has been working at the Polish-German Research Institute at Collegium Polonicum in Słubice. Her research interests include: problems of nationalism and forced migration in Europe, Polish-German relations, identity issues in border regions, as well as culture and the politics of memory. For her book entitled “The Polish Wild West. Forced Migration and the Cultural Taming of the Rhineland 1945-48”, she was awarded the Identitas Prize 2016 in the category of best historical book of the year.