Prof. Andrzej Misiuk, Ph.D. – Professor of the Humanities (2008), faculty member at the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Warsaw, and head of the Department of Internal Security. He has been engaged in research and teaching since 1983. His research interests encompass broadly defined security issues, particularly the history of police institutions and intelligence services in Poland, as well as internal security systems at the national and European levels. He initiated efforts to establish a new field of study—“Internal Security” (2005)—and a new academic discipline—security studies (2010). At the age of twenty-nine, he defended his doctoral dissertation, and at the age of thirty-eight, he earned his habilitation degree. On July 23, 2008, he was awarded the title of professor of the humanities by the President of the Republic of Poland. He earned all his academic degrees and titles at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, from which he graduated. Since 1997, he has been affiliated with universities in Olsztyn, first with the Pedagogical University and then with the University of Warmia and Mazury, where he served as associate dean of the Faculty of Law and Administration. In 2008, he began his research and teaching career at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Warsaw. Since 1990, he has been a member of the editorial board of the journal *Przegląd Policyjny*, and since 2011, of the journal *Bezpieczeństwo Wewnętrzne*. Since 2000, he has been a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in New York. Since 2016, he has served on the Central Commission for Ranks and Titles under the Prime Minister. On the Commission, he represents his discipline (security studies) in the social sciences and humanities section. Even before 1989, he initiated pioneering research on the pre-war police, which he continued for many years. He established the Department of Police History at the Police Academy in Szczytno, where he served as director of the institute from 1990 to 2007. He was a member of an international team of historians who authored the book “Policing Interwar Europe” dedicated to the history of the European police during the interwar period, published in London in 2006 by the renowned publisher Palgrave Macmillan. He also actively participated in the work of civil society organizations seeking to commemorate the tragic fate of Poles in Soviet Russia after 1939, particularly that of all pre-war police officers. He was involved in efforts to identify the victims of the 1940 Soviet massacre in Tver, conducted by the “Karta” Center as part of the “Index of the Repressed” initiative, and he also wrote inscriptions for tombstones commissioned by the Council for the Protection of the Memory of Combat and Martyrdom. For these achievements, on May 25, 2004, he was awarded the “Pieta Miednoje 1940” commemorative medal of honor. To date, Professor Andrzej Misiuk has published 56 books, seven collections of sources, 177 articles and scholarly studies, six popular science publications, and seven reviews that have appeared in domestic and foreign journals (in Germany, Lithuania, France, the United Kingdom, Romania, Russia, and Spain).
Research interests
Security theory, internal security systems, history of the police and intelligence services.