Małgorzata Dąbrowska (born 11 January 1956 in Łódź,łgorzataDą Poland) is a Polish historian, Byzantinist, dean of the History Department at the University of Łódź. She specializes in Byzantine studies, specifically the topics of Byzantium and the West in 13th-15th centuries, mixed marriages in the Imperial family of the Palaiologoi, rivalry between the Palaiologoi and Kantakouzenoi families, the Empire of Trebizond and the Pontus, the relationship between Kingdom of Poland and Byzantium, as well as Polish contemporary history.
Representing the Polish Committee of Byzantine Studies, she participated in the 18th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Moscow (1991), 19th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Copenhagen (1996), 20th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Paris (2001), 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London (2006).
Awards, prizes, and fellowships
Member: Polish Historical Society, International Association of Byzantine Studies, British Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, council Collegium Artium. Award for Academic Excellence, University of Lodz (1978) President's of the University Award for the book Byzantium, France and the Papacy in the Second half of the 13th century, University of Lodz (1987) Fellowship at College de France, French Government (1989) Award for Young, Outstanding Scholars, Polish Academy of Sciences (1991) TEMPUS Fellowship at the University of Thessaloniki, European Community, Brussels (1992) TEMPUS Fellowship at the University of Paris I -Sorbonne, European Community -Brussels (1996) Ministry of Education Award for the book Latin Ladies on the Bosporos. Byzantine-Latin marriages in the Imperial family of the Palaiologoi (13th-15th centuries), Polish Government (1998) Lanckoronski Fellowship at King's College, London, Lanckoronski Foundation (1999) Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship at Harvard University's Library at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, The Kosciuszko Foundation (2000) Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, UK, All Souls College (2001) Visiting Fellow of the Kosciuszko Foundation at Rice University, the Kosciuszko Foundation, New York, NY (2005-2008)
Selected publications
Books
Bizancjum, Francja i Stolica Apostolska w drugiej połowie XIII wieku, Łódź 1986 (in Polish; Byzantium, France and the Holy See in the second Half of the Thirteenth Century) . Łacinniczki nad Bosforem. Małżeństwa bizantyńsko - łacińskie w cesarskiej rodzinie Paleologów ( XIII-XV w.), Łódź 1996 (in polish; The Latin Ladies on the Bosporos. Byzantine- Latin Marriages in the Imperial Family of the Palaiologoi (13th-15th Centuries) . (translation) Steven Runciman, Nieszpory Sycylijskie. Dzieje świata śródziemnomorskiego w drugiej połowie XIII wieku, Katowice 1997, 2007 (The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century, 1958). (translation) Cyril Mango, Historia Bizancjum, Gdańsk 1997, 2002 (Byzantium: The Empire of the New Rome, 1980). (translation) Donald Nicol, Konstantyn XI. Ostatni cesarz Rzymian, Gdańsk 2004 (The Immortal Emperor: the life and legend of Constantine Palaiologos, last Emperor of the Romans, 1991). Let the witnesses speak… Contemporary Polish and Central European Politics and Culture, National Archive Publishing Company, XanEdu, Rice University, Houston, TX, 2007. Enough Questions, Enough Answers. Modern Polish poetry in Translation, National Archive Publishing Company, XanEdu, Rice University, Houston, TX 2007. Polish Drama in Translation, National Archive Publishing Company, XanEdu, Rice University, Houston, TX, 2006. Krzysztof Zanussi’s Cinema, Central and Eastern European Film, National Archive Publishing Company, XanEdu, Rice University, Houston, TX 2006, 2007, 2008. The Voice of Byzantium. Byzantium and the Slavs, National Archive Publishing Company, XanEdu, Rice University, Houston, TX 2008. (ed.) Oskar Halecki i jego wizja Europy, ed. Małgorzata Dąbrowska, vols. 1-3, Warszawa–Łódź 2012-2014 (Oskar Halecki and its vision of Europe). Drugie oko Europy. Bizancjum w średniowieczu, Wrocław 2015 (The other eye Europe. Byzantium in the Middle Ages) . (ed.) Kazimierz Zakrzewski. Historia i polityka, red. Małgorzata Dąbrowska, Warszawa–Łódź: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Uniwersytet Łódzki 2015. (ed.) pamięci przywrócony, red. Małgorzata Dąbrowska, Warszawa–Łódź: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Uniwersytet Łódzki 2016. The Hidden Secrets. Late Byzantium in the Western and Polish Context, Łódź: Wydawnictwo UŁ 2017.