Paweł Hut, Ph.D., Professor – Ph.D. in Social Sciences in the field of political science (2014) and Ph.D. in Humanities in the field of political science (2002).
From 2008 to 2012, he served as the dean’s representative for financial aid and as director of the Full-Time Social Policy Program. Author of presentations and lectures at international conferences in Berlin, Bamberg, Cieszyn in Zaolzie, Budapest, and Bucharest. Member of the Refugee Council for three consecutive terms from 2004 to 2019. From 2022 to 2023, he served as a member of the Public Benefit Council. From 2018 to 2022, he served as a member of the Council of the Polish Army Museum. From 2017 to 2024, he served as a member of the Advisory Board of the International Center for Migration Policy Development (Vienna). From 2016 to 2024, he served as a member of the Program Council of the Polish-Czech Forum.
He specializes in research on ethnic relations in Central and Eastern Europe, demographic processes in Europe and the post-Soviet space, and social issues and problems from the past. His research and publications focus on Polish minorities in the former Eastern Bloc, migration (repatriation, exile), and the history of social issues and problems in postwar Poland. In his free time, he devotes himself to reading social commentary from the interwar period of the 20th century (social issues, ethnic relations, memoirs) and observing social life in Zaolzie.
Research Interests
Interethnic relations and national minorities. Poles in Zaolzie and the former USSR. Repatriation and repatriates from the former USSR. Social problems in the interwar period. Film and music in the Polish People’s Republic (1980s).