Piotr Bednarz

Piotr Bednarz is a full Professor at the Department of 16th-19th Century History and Eastern Europe within the Faculty of History and Archaeology at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS), Poland. He serves as Director of the Institute of History and Head of Department.

His research focuses on Swiss-Polish relations during the 19th-20th centuries, emphasizing cultural/political ties, public opinion (particularly Swiss coverage of Polish independence during WWI), national consciousness formation in Switzerland, and Swiss perspectives on Eastern Europe. He has extensively analyzed topics like the Helvetic Republic's parallels with the Warsaw Principality, Swiss press coverage of Russian revolutions, and WWII historiography.

Recent publications include studies on Vorarlberg's statehood debates in 1920 (2024), Central European national identities in Swiss political thought (2023), and Ukrainian representation in Swiss WWI press (2022). His 2012 monograph Dylematy neutralnych remains a key work on Swiss public opinion during WWI.