Radosław Poniat

Radosław Poniat is an Assistant Professor at the Department of History and International Relations, University of Białystok. His research focuses on long-term social structures, gender relations, and social inequalities. He manages two National Science Centre (NCN) grants exploring these themes.

His work integrates demographic analysis with historical methodologies, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches such as paleoecology and comparative family demography. Key projects include the Mosaic Database initiative and studies on the Black Death pandemic’s ecological impacts. He has published in journals like Nature Ecology and Evolution and European Journal of Population.

Research interests span pre-industrial agricultural practices, military sociology, and the intersection of legal norms with everyday life in historical contexts. His contributions include exploring religious freedom in borderland regions and analyzing the socio-economic consequences of 17th/18th-century Northern Wars.

His publications reflect a commitment to innovative data consolidation (e.g., historical census microdata) and critical engagement with methodological challenges in demographic history.