My name is Anastazja Grudnicka. I’m a Sir John Elliott Junior Research Fellow at Oriel College, University of Oxford. Before that, I was an Evelyn Dunbar and Ruth Dunbar Davee Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago (2024-2025) and a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (2022-2024). I read History at the University of Cambridge and University College London, where I was a Wolfson Postgraduate Scholar in the Humanities and earned my doctorate in 2021. I’m a historian of early modern Europe. My research concerns sociability and religion, with a special focus on toleration and peacemaking, identity, and material culture. I’m interested in exploring why and how early modern societies accommodated religious diversity and how, in turn, they were shaped by these practices of accommodation.
I am an enthusiastic educator with experience teaching at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels. I have taught courses on European history from the 15th to the 20th century as well as historical methodologies and academic writing, at institutions in the USA, UK, and Europe. Beyond the classroom, I have mentored students from prospective applicants to doctoral candidates and worked on widening access initiatives to support first-generation scholars.
Beyond academia, I have experience in translation and museum work.
Learn more about my research here.
Anastazja Grudnicka 