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M.A. Łukasz Kożuchowski

Biography

Doctoral researcher at the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw (project God in Heaven, Tsar on Earth: Imperial Power and Peasant Religiosity in Russian Poland, 1905–1915; funded by a grant from the National Science Centre’s Preludium programme). In
2025, visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York thanks to Kosciuszko Foundation Grant. Member of the research team for the European Research Council grant Benasta – Becoming National against the State: Popular discontent and adherence to minority nationalisms in late nineteenth-century Eastern Europe. Recipient of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education Diamond Grant.

Research interests focus on the social, cultural and religious history of the Russian partition, especially the history of peasants during and after the reforms of the 1860s. His work also concerns tsarist imperial policy in Russian Poland.

Title of the doctoral dissertation

God in Heaven, Tsar on Earth: Imperial Authority and Peasant Religiosity in Russian Poland, 1905-1915

Most important scholarly articles

  • Did Secularization among Peasants in the Kingdom of Poland Accelerate in the Period 1906–1912? Peasants, Anticlericalism, and Religious Discourse under the Late Russian
    Imperial Regime, „Journal of East Central European Studies” 2024, vol. 73, no. 4, p. 567-590, LINK.

  • Dotychczasowe badania nad religijnością polskich chłopów w okresie pouwłaszczeniowym (1864–1914), „Przegląd Historyczny” 2024, z. 4, s. 545-562, / LINK

  • Egodokumenty (listy i pamiętniki) chłopów Królestwa Polskiego i chłopskich migrantów zeń jako źródła historyczne (1864–1914), „Kwartalnik Historyczny” 2023, nr 4, s. 829-859, / LINK

Current scholarly projects