Lukasz Krzyzanowski is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw (Claims Conference University Partnership in Holocaust Studies Lecturer) and head of Public History department in the Institute for Central European Studies (Instytut Europy Środkowej) in Lublin. He was also Adjunct Professor at the Department of History, University of Ottawa and one of the leaders of Holocaust Mass Graves Project at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. Trained at Jagiellonian University, University of Exeter, and the University of Warsaw. He has held scholarships from the University of Oxford, Yad Vashem, and the Claims Conference. His monograph Ghost Citizens: Jewish Return to a Postwar City (transl. Madeline G. Levine, Harvard University Press 2020) received the Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize from the German Studies Association in 2021. He currently works on his second book project which concerns power relations and social structure in Polish village communities during the German occupation and the Holocaust. His work bridges history and social sciences.